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[Chalcots Estate, near Haverstock Hill [Hampstead].] Five seventeenth-century indentures, all on vellum, between the signatories Phillip Barret, William Watkins and Thomas Allen, and the freeholders Eton College.

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Chalcots Estate, near Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, London [Phillip Barrett [Barret; Barrat]; William Watkins; Sir Thomas Allen; Eton College]
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Dated 14 June 1615; 18 December 1615; 24 May 1632; 26 March 1639; 9 July 1655;
£650.00

The five documents are all in good condition, on five half-skins, the vellum having discoloured and aged in the usual way. Eton College was granted Chalcots by Henry VI in 1448. The history of the estate is dealt with in detail in the Victoria County History for Middlesex, vol.9 (Hamstead, Paddington), which includes the following relating to the present five items: 'In 1615-16 Eton leased Chalcots and Wyldes for 21 years to Philip Barrett (d. 1630), who left it to his wife Elizabeth.

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[Sir Arthur Bryant.] Typed Note Signed ('Arthur Bryant') to Philip Dossé, editor of Books and Bookmen, regarding a review of 'two Seymour books'.

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Sir Arthur Bryant [Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant] (1899-1985), English historian and biographer of Samuel Pepys [Philip Dossé (d.1980), editor of Books and Bookmen]
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On his letterhead, Myles Place, The Close, Salisbury. 26 April 1976.
£35.00

1p., foolscap 8vo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks him for his letter. 'The two Seymour books have no arrived and I will let you have the review as soon as I can get round to it.'

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Autograph Note Signed ('GS.') by the artist Sir George Scharf, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, concerning the 'last time I saw Lord Stanhope'.

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Sir George Scharf (1820-1895), artist and Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London [Philip Henry Stanhope (1805-1875), 5th Earl Stanhope]
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Without date (circa 1875?) or place.
£56.00
Autograph Note Signed ('GS.') by the artist Sir George Scharf,

12mo, 1 p. On mourning paper. Ten lines of text, followed by initialed signature 'GS.' Clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. Scharf states that his last meeting with Stanhope was at Chevening on 20 November 1875, and that he had 'almost up to the last moment been reading to him "Advice to Julia" by Henry Lutterell illigitimate [sic] son of Lord Carhampton, publd by Murray. 1820'. Stanhope, he concludes, 'enjoyed it very much'.

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