Manuscripts

Letters patent, great seal attached, chartering St. John's Hospital, Northampton

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Description: Document and seal housed together in one oversize frame.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1632.
Call number: mssHM 84424
Creator: Charles (1600-1649)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Estate of Hazel Mackenzie, April 1992.
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Great seals of James I and William IV

Manuscripts

The box contains a Great Seal of England of James I, King of Great Britain, detached from a document (HM 27944). The box also contains letters patent to Joseph Gibbs and Augustus Applegarth, licensing use of their invention for steam carriages for 14 years, September 29, 1832; with Great Seal of William IV attached (HM 27945). The seals and document are housed in a 19th century box which has been placed in a modern archival box.

mssHM 27944-27945

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Commission under the great seal of England appointing Sir Arthur Aston as sergeant major of horse

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This commission, against those rebelling against the King, appoints Sir Arthur Aston as Sergeant Major of Troops of Horse. The commission and wax Great Seal are housed in a (19th century?) burgundy box, which also contains an embroidered linen handkerchief. Please note the seal is slightly damaged with the right upper edge missing and the box cover has come loose from the spine. For protection, the burgundy box has been placed in a modern archival box which needs to be handled carefully and remain flat.

mssHM 82896

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German letters patent

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German document concerning "Anna Barbara" and her daughter Eleonora. With seal matrices.

mssHM 84357

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The great seal of the state of New York :

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Circular wax seal of the first seal of New York State, devised by a committee appointed in April 1777. On the front is a rising sun with the motto: "Excelsior" and "The Great Seal of the State of New York." On the reverse is a rock in the ocean, with "Frustra."

mssHM 84360

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Letters patent for carding machine

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Copy of the Royal Letters Patent for the carding machine invented by Richard Arkwright, copied (it seems) by John Kipling (who states the original remains in the Chapel of Rolls). The function of the machine is to make "Weft" or yarn from cotton and/or wool. The patent states that Arkwright submitted his Request to King George III and it was approved: Only Arkwright and his associates would be able to control the output and selling of the machine within Great Britain for a fourteen-year period. The approval of the Royal Letters Patent is dated July the third, 1769. One condition included in the patent is: if a handwritten description and account of the machine, its parts, and its function is not submitted to "his said Majesty High court of Chancery" within four months of the approval date (July 3), then Arkwright's claim on the machine is void. What follows is a description of the machine, with parts of it described and listed with letters A-W, which correspond to the drawing on what appears to be thick vellum on the last page of the document. All three pages have an impressed seal in the mid-upper-right corner. Possible marginalia on the 3rd page: "Anguish" on the left margin.. Parchment and vellum, black ink, pages tied together at the top with a bit of reddish string. All handwritten/hand-drawn.

mssHM 80401

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Letters patent to Ebenezer Markham

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Grant for tract of land in New York, Clinton County, being part of that set aside for Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees; signed by George Clinton with great seal of state attached.

mssHM 1760

Letters patent, great seal attached, chartering St. John's Hospital, Northampton

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