Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 4
23. BUCKINGHAM PALACE PROGRAMME
Beautiful programme for an evening concert at the Palace, printed in light purple, listing the pieces to be played and the
performers who will sing, Miss Ella Russell, M. Maurel, Edward Lloyd, Madlle Trebelli, Made Albani & Made
Scalchi , atthe head is a superb raised lion & unicorn crest in gold, red and blue and the whole is printed within an
impressed lacey border with a design of roses and leaves, 1 side 4to., with conjugate blank, Buckingham Palace, 30th
June 1886 [SD26022]£60
HARLES (Philip Arthur George, b. 1948, Prince of Wales) & Princess DIANA (1961-1997, his ex-wife)
Superb presentation photo in original green morocco frame, withgilt monogram at the head, the image shows
the couple standing together arm in arm, 5” x 4” in frame 9½” x 7”, n.p., 1990, with original cardboard box
[SD25618]£6,000
25. CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain)
Fine Document signed at the head as King addressed to John Webbe of Odstock, Wiltshire, granting him license “to
travell goe and stay out of the Compasse of five miles from the place of his dwelling or aboade at his will and pleasure
for and during the natural life of the said John Webbe ...” despite the fact that he was a Recusant Convict and therefore
confined by the Act of Queen Elizabeth, 1 side folio, n.p., 3rd January 1627/8 [SD26562]£1,750
Charles succeeded to the throne on 27 March 1625. As a conciliatory move at thebeginning of his reign he announced his intention of
putting the laws against recusants into execution, thereby abandoning his promise to the king of France. It is therefore surprising to
find this license to a convicted Recusant
PRINCE CHARLES PAYS FOR WORKS AT RICHMOND PARK
26. CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain)
Fine Document signed as “Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewall and Yorke and Earle of Chester To our trustie and
welbeloved Sr Adam NEWTON ...” (d. 1630, Dean of Durham, Tutor to Prince Charles, 1612) concerning payments to
John NORDEN (1548-1625?, Topographer, Surveyor to the Duchy of Cornwall) and James Martin for “trees and
settinge and plantinge ... and for diverse other works done about our Parke of Richmond ... the some of twenty nyne
pounds nyneteene shillings ...” 1 side oblong folio on vellum, Court at Greenwich, 23rd June 1622 [SD15700]£2,250
DOMINION OF THE SEAS
27. CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain)
Fine Silver Medallion Commemorating the Launch of HMS “Sovereign of the Seas,” with a portrait bust of Charles I on
the obverse“CAROLUS.I.D.G.MAG.BRITANN.FRAN.ET.HIB.REX .”onthereversetheshipinfullsail
“NEC .META . MIHI . QVE . TERMINUS . ORBIT .” - My boundaries are the ends of the earth, 2¼ inches cast in
silver by the Royal Mint 1638 [SD21968]£1,750
HMS “Sovereign of the Seas” later “Sovereign” and “Royal Sovereign”, in service from 1638 until 1696, was the greatest, most
powerful and extravagent warship of the 17th century. A 40 gun fighting ship in that age cost about £6000, the “Sovereign of the Seas”
was reputed to have cost £60,000. It was conceived by Charles himself, who ignoring the opposition from Trinity House, appointed
Phineas Pett, Master Builder to the Navy, to build the ship according to his ideas. Richard Hough in Fighting Ships, opines that this
most modern and magnificent vessel was “criminal extravagence” and one of the reasons Charles I lost his head ! Pett designed this
revolutionary vessel which was built at Woolwich under the supervision of his son Peter, between 1635 & 1637. It boasted a fire
power of 104 guns, Pett wrote in his journal “She hath three flush deckes and a forecastle, an halfe decke, a quarter-decke, and a round
house. Here lower tyre hath thirty ports, which are furnished with demi-cannon and whole cannon.” Such power gave her the
supremecy of the English Channel. The King had long wanted an advantage over the Dutch, who had been troublesome over a
number of years. The clear passage gave English Merchant Ships a chance to compete in the trade with East Africa and the East
Indies.
It was rebuilt during the Commonwealth when it was renamed “Sovereign” and again in 1660 when it was renamed “Royal
Sovereign”, commemorating the Restoration of the Monarchy.
Theship took part in many battles with the Dutch and French and remained undefeated. Sadly she came to an ignominious end in 1696
at Chatham, when a careless sailor left a candle unchecked in his cabin, and she was destroyed by fire. Had she survived, she would
not have been obsolete in terms of fire power and size, at the Battle of the Nile over a century later.
At the launch of “The Sovereign of the Seas” King Charles ordered the Master of the Royal Mint to produce a commemorative medal
to be known as “The Dominion of the Seas Medal”. A few were first struck in silver but because of its size technical problems caused
the rest, like this one, to be cast.
28. CHARLOTTE (Queen, 1744-1818, née Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of George III)
ALS to her Lord Chamberlain, the 16th Earl of Morton, (1761-1827), asking him to send two letters “to Monsieur Nagel
the Dutch Minister”, 1 side 8vo and conjugate blank, Windsor Castle, 28th December 1792 [SD50242]£175
29. CHARLES II (1630-1685, King of Great Britain)
Letter Signed, addressed at the foot to Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster-general of the land forces, ordering the payment of £8
to Dr John Troutbeck, surgeon to the Queen’s Troop of Guards, for medicaments for one year, signed on verso
byTroutbeck on receipt, 1 side folio with endorsed leaf, Whitehall, 6 April 1670/1 [SD26634]£1,250