BIB_ID
80008
Accession number
MA 9811
Creator
Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1690 July 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.6 x 14.6 cm
Notes
Docketed. Year of writing taken from the docket.
Address panel: "For the Right Hon:ble / Sir Robert Southwell."
From a bound collection of documents and letters titled Autographs of the Bishops of London. Previously accessioned as MA 549.
Address panel: "For the Right Hon:ble / Sir Robert Southwell."
From a bound collection of documents and letters titled Autographs of the Bishops of London. Previously accessioned as MA 549.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson in June 1906.
Summary
Recommending Peter Drelincourt, who wishes to exchange his preferment for something near Dublin; describing him as "sometimes Tutour to the Duke of Ormond [...] an honest man & a good Scholar;" adding that he has the support of the king and queen: "The Queen has an esteem for him, particularly upon his brothers [Charles Drelincourt] account, who is Physick Professor at Leyden, & much in ye Kings interest."
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