1688-1777 NAVAL FLEET MAIL, SOME MERCHANT & OTHER ITEMS: A g...

Hammer

£130

1688-1777 NAVAL FLEET MAIL, SOME MERCHANT & OTHER ITEMS: A good to fine group of items condition is typical for age, incs. Oct. 1688 two page newsletter from London without wrapper; 1693 EL from HMS Monmouth, Spithead with some staining and slight marginal damage (the letter was probably posted at Portsmouth on the 24th as it received a fine Bishop mark AP/25. It was then sent to "Charles Orchard Esq att ye Customs Office in, Exon") ms "In All 5"; 1705 part EL address panel & text complete, some staining but readable letter From Francis Hope on HMS Torbay to his father Richard in Cranbrook, Kent with "InAll 5"; 1716 EL written "Halfway betwixt Orfordness & Yarmouth" (ailing from Elsinore) with 23/AV Bishop mark partly over written & forwarded to Liverpool. Also ELs from HMS Venus 1761 with sl PLYMOUTH DN 1067; 1766 HMS Fly with similar Plymouth mark & "In All" to Edinburgh;1776 EL from HMS Conquestadoor to Denny NB ex Spanish captured 12/8/1762 at Sheerness (letter from Husband to his wife) with weak PORTS/MOUTH and good 20/FE Bishop mark, rated "In All 9" with on reverse "Pay the boy a shilling"; and 1711 Velum Indenture for lease of land in Yorkshire, signatures and seals are intact. (8) Cross Reference: EPHEMERA, MANUSCRIPTS, ETC., MARITIME MAIL, SCOTTISH INTEREST, EARLY LETTERS