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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Approximately 22 letters and documents by public figures of the late Stuart period, including a letter signed by JAMES II (as King, to Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon as lord lieutenant of Ireland, 23 March 1685/6, permitting him to dispense with the oath of supremacy for three judicial appointments), autograph letters signed by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of CLARENDON (to Richard Fanshaw, Brussels, 10 May [1659], reproaching him for not having written, 1½ pages, 4to), Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (six, 6 November 1680 - 15 June 1715, including one as lord lieutenant of Ireland, another of 6 June 1687 to [John Evelyn], informing him of an intended visit by certain relatives the next day 'upon condition that you will not make them a Feast; pray lett us not be troublesome'), Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of ROCHESTER (eight (one unsigned), 9 May 1667 - 23 November 1701, the first referring to the 'great discontents' amongst the gentry of Yorkshire as to their lord lieutenant, a letter of 13 August 1697 apparently responding to a proposal for his daughter's hand, the later letters written as lord lieutenant of Ireland, the last of them (unsigned) intimating his desire to resign the post; and a document signed, 1679), Rochester's wife Henrietta (to her father, the 1st Earl of Burlington, n.d.) and four other documents. (22)
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