Autographs & Memorabilia (28 Jan 2020 B) Tue, 28th Jan 2020 Lot 526

Estimate: £800 - £1200 + Fees Lord Chancellor.- A collection of Autograph letters signed, one or more letters by each Lord Chancellor listed below, including: Edward Thurland, discussing salaries, 2pp., with his wax seal, 1672; John Hay, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, asking the to protect a young wine merchant who had shipped wines for London which were in danger of being seized, 1p., 1669; A note signed by William Murray, 1st , requesting attendance at his chambers in Serjeant’s Inn, 1771; Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow to the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the licenses for the marriage of the Duke of York to the daughter of Frederick William II of Prussia, 2pp., with an autograph indorsement by the Archbishop, 1791; Lord Erskine to Edward Oliver, reading “I shall devote the remainder of my life to maintain & do my utmost to enforce […] the freedom of this Land as established at the revolution which the present advisers of the Crown have so entirely departed from [...]”, 2pp., Worthing, 1820; v.s., with prints and supporting material (30) ***Including: Edward Thurland (22 February 1607 – 14 January 1683); John Hay, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl of Tweeddale (c. 13 August 1625, Yester, East Lothian – 11 August 1697, Edinburgh); William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793); Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, PC, KC (9 December 1731 – 12 September 1806); Sir James Mansfield, SL KC (originally Manfield; 1734 – 23 November 1821); William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell (17 October 1745 – 28 January 1836); Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, KT, PC, KC (10 January 1750 – 17 November 1823); John Scott, 1st , PC, QC, FRS, FSA (4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838); John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, Kt, PC, QS, FRS (21 May 1772 – 12 October 1863); Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, QC, FRS (19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868); John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, PC, QC, FRSE (15 September 1779 – 23 June 1861); Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron Saint Leonards Kt DL PC (Ire) PC (12 February 1781 – 29 January 1875); Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st , PC, QC (29 April 1781 – 29 April 1851); Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, PC (18 December 1790 – 26 July 1868); Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, PC, QC, FRS (25 April 1794 – 5 October 1878); Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, PC (30 June 1800 – 20 July 1873); William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, PC (29 November 1801 – 10 July 1881); Roundell Palmer, 1st , PC, FRS (27 November 1812 – 4 May 1895); Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st PC (27 December 1819 – 2 April 1885); Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, PC QC later KC (3 September 1823 – 11 December 1921)