Lot 320
Autographs. An interesting late nineteenth century album comprising 298 clipped autographs, letters and signed documents, compiled by Frances B. Mostyn of Arundel, including royalty, noblemen, members of the Catholic church, politicians and authors, the majority 1870-1930, but a few earlier, mostly mounted, a few loose, half morocco, worn, 140pp., folio
Including: Victoria, Queen. A pardon for John Houghton, convicted of felony at Cambridge in March 1834, granted the sixth day of December 1837, signed by Victoria and Lord John Russell, 2pp.; George III, King. An act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, signed by George III and Viscount Castlereagh, on the fifth day of March 1809, 3pp.; William IV, King. The appointment of Edward Mostyn to the rank of cornet in the Eighth Regiment of the Light Dragoons, signed by William IV and Viscount Melbourne, on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1833, 1p.; The appointment of Edward Mostyn to the rank of Lieutenant in the Eighth Regiment of the Light Dragoons, signed by William IV and the 1st Earl Russell, on the nineteenth day of May, 1835, 1p.; A pardon for James Edwards, debtor, granted the 16 day of June, 1837, signed by William IV, R. Stewart, Lord Seymour and Richard O'Ferrall, Lord of the Treasury, 1p., folded; Pitt, John. A warrant to pay the Magistrates of Middlelburg, the sum of five thousand, five hundred florins on account of the extraordinaries of the army... being the Amount of Horses purchased for the R. waggon train, 6th September, 1839, 1p.; John Henry Cardinal Newman, three autograph notes signed; a summons for a private audience with Pope Pius XI, 3 April 1924; a receipt for Earlsford Hall, signed by Henry Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, dated 14 Feb 1693, 1p.; two warrants for payment, signed by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; a proclamation for Queen Victoria upon the death of William IV, dated 20 June 1837, to the Sheriff of Monmouthshire, signed by Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, William Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne and others, 1p.; ALS include those from: William Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, Charles Henry Gordon Lennox, Duke of Richmond, Sir William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, The Earl of Carlisle, Sir Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley of Bexley, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, Sir Albert Woods, Augustus Welby Pugin, Prince Frederick Dulup Singh, Henry Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, Mariano Cardinal Rampolla Del Tindaro, Henry Edward, 2nd Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, T. Cardinal Weld, John Bede Polding, John Butt, Bishop of Southwark, Walter Savage Landor, clipped autographs include: Victoria Eugenia, Queen Consort of Alfonso XIII of Spain, Robert Browning, H. Rider Haggard, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and others.
