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Date(s)
- 1645, 1976 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
3 ff.
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Archival history
Item No. 883 in a Catalogue of a Most Interesting Series of Autograph Letters… on sale by Thomas Thorpe, No. 178, Piccadilly, London… (London, 1836), p. 92. Owned by Anthony S. Gilbert in 1976. Auctioned by Bonhams in 2016 from the collection of the late Donald John Morgan (lots 188-218).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bonhams; London; Purchased at auction, lot 213; 16 March 2016; 99636543502419.
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Scope and content
An autograph letter, dated 17 May 1645, from Prince Rupert, at Newport, [Shropshire], to [Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state], [?at Oxford], communicating the news that Montgomery Castle, under Sir John Price [or Pryce] the parliamentary governor, has come over to the Royalists, and that 'the Ennemys have drawne their cannon from Harding [Hawarden] Castle' (f. 28).
Also included is a letter, 30 March 1976, from the military historian Brigadier Peter Young to Anthony S. Gilbert, discussing the letter and tentatively suggesting General Charles Gerard or the Marquis of Worcester as its intended recipient (ff. 29-30). However, Thomas Thorpe's catalogue of autograph letters (1836) identifies the recipient as 'Sir Edw. Nicholes [sic]' and the Prince Rupert letter is endorsed in Nicholas's hand ('Maij. 1645. R[eceived] 21o. P. Rupert to me' on f. 28 verso).
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
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English.
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Title based on contents.
Note
Shelf-mark, '[?l.] E. 1914 III, 9', [19 cent. x 20 cent.], in pencil at foot of f. 28 (cf. lot 212 in the 2016 Bonhams auction).