BIB_ID
137638
Accession number
MA 1475.2
Display Date
1575 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 item (2 p.) : vellum ; ca. 11.5 x 28.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 17 documents relating to the Sidney family. Items are individually cataloged in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
Provenance
Percy Clinton Sidney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford and Baron Penhurst (bound with doublures bearing his arms in 1837 or later); by descent to his granddaughter Mrs. P.M. Russell (Philippa Augusta Maria Baillie Russell), and sold by her (London, Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 533) to Quaritch; purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Summary
Acknowledging indebtedness of £150 to Henry Chevall, agreeing to pay on the "ffifteenthe daye of December nexte cominge." Signed by Philip Sidney ("Philipus Sidneius"), William Blount, and Richard Rodmay. Witnessed by Henry Evans. With a contemporary English translation on the verso.
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