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Autographs include: William S. Andrews, Unitarian author; Daniel Noyes Haskell, editor of the Boston Transcript; Charles Coffin Jewett (1816-1868), Librarian of the Smithsonian; Walter R. Johnson; Fred A. Packard; Elizabeth Sanders; and T.H. Stafford, Jr.. A separate list of [signatures ?] of English nobility include the following names: Lord Salisbury, Lord Beverley, Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Northumberland, Lord Craven, Lord Harrington, Lord Clifford, Marquis of Stafford, Lord Spencer, Lord Northampton, Lord Courtney, and Lord Greenwich.

Documents include a legal document involving Anthuenis De Backere, [1638] February; a document conferring the title of Marquis of Villa Puente upon the Duke of Albuquerque (1666-1724), 1710 October 31; and Battalion and Campague du 82 Regiment d'Infanterie, 1793 January 8.

Documents include: Document signed by Thomas Duddeley and William Lambarde (1536-1601), [ante 1602?]; Document signed by Henry King (1592-1669), bishop of Chichester, Thomas [Wynne?], John Montfort, and Thomas Turner (1591-1672), Dean of Canterbury, requesting information about all the tenants of the manor and parsonage of [Loybridge], including the demesne lands and the glebe lands belonging to the parsonage before the next general court, St. Paul's, 1640 April 23; Bond of Joseph Einham to Robert Hall, New Sarum, Great Britain, 1706 July 25; Summons for Francis Borland issued by Deputy Sheriff Thomas Savage, Suffolk County1720/1 March 21; Warrant for the pay of Henry Earl of Deloraine's Regiment of Foot, signed by William Strickland and R. Worthington, 1729 June 25-December 24; and a warrant to provide and deliver to the drum major and each of the five drummers of His Majesty's household a livery with His Majesty's cypher and embroidery as was customary, signed by [Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of] Grafton, [Horace] Walpole, George Dodington, George Oxender and Thomas Dummer, 1736/7 February 8. Other documents include: a claim against the estate of Sir John Lambert Middleton, a bankrupt, by Sir William Saint Quintin, Newtown, Southampton County, 1766 July 31; Payment to John Durand for provisions shipped to the island of St. Vincent, signed by Charles Townshend, Francis Viscount Beauchamp, and Charles Wolfram Cornwall, undated fragment, but possibly circa 1776-1782; a complaint of John Bruce against James Dundass for two hundred and seventy-two pounds, 1779 August 6; Power of Attorney of George Rome, London, to William Tilghman, Maryland, 1787 May 3; Booth and Leggatt, Solicitors for the Affairs of Taxes, Craven Street, London, Tax Office memorandum concerning them, 1810-1813; Receipt signed by Sir Charles Wetherell (1770-1846), Attorney General for England and Wales, to George Maule (1776-1851), Solicitor to the Treasury, 1826 December 30; and London and Glasgow booksellers accounts with Miss Morris, chiefly for religious texts, 1843-1849.

Letters and documents concerning the Newton estate, Lancashire, England, involving George Orred (died 1828), solicitor, Liverpool; Colonel Thomas Plumbe, Thomas Claughton, and G.O. Bulmer.

Printed document concerning the bill for disbanding and paying off the military and naval forces of the realm, filled in for James Berry, innholder, and signed by Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1642-1711) and two others.

Order of payment from His Majesty's treasury to John Lord Churchill (1650-1722) signed by [Laurence Hyde] 1st Earl of Rochester (1642-1711) and Mr. Villiors.

[Indenture ?] for the sale of land to John Percivall of New Sarum, Wiltshire County, signed by Robert Abner, on parchment.

Miscellaneous oversize documents relating to Louisiana, including an account of C.S. Farrar to the Louisiana Cotton Press, undated; blank vouchers for the U.S. Marshals in New Orleans, undated; F. Wintz, President of the New Orleans City Railroad Company, 1877 August 8, to the city surveyor; and acknowledgement of the receipt of cotton to James E. Saunders, 1841 October 23.