The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-09-21
LETTERS OF GREAT
Relics of Queen Mary and Cath
crime de Medici to Be Sold.
NotsbIe Original Papers Written by
Royal Hands or Bearing on His
toriL Matters VIII Be Put Up
at Public Auction.

London.-Royal letters and state
documents, as well as Photograph and
autograph letters of various celebrI.
! ties. ranging in date from 1417 to 1904.
will be sold by public auction at Sothe-
by's soon.
The collection includes letters from
Mary Queen of Scots. as well as from
her cousin and rival, Queen Elizabeth
and an important treaty. deciding the
! future destiny of Mary Queen of Scots,
by means of which Mary of Guise, her
mother. Cardinal Reaton and Lord
LennoX rendered void the English
treaty, as also the contract for Mary s
projected marriage with the future
Edward VI. Twenty-seven years later
Mary was In prison at Chatsworth
and from there addressed an appeal
70 her brother-inlaw, Charles TX. of
France. imploring him to intercedc
with Elizabeth This letter is accom-.
panied by Elizabeth's original order
for the payment of "the blood money"
e100. to Sir John Popham, the crown
prosecutor, who conducted the fatal
rial at FOtherlngay.
There is also the only letter remain
Ing In private possession written by
Mary I. of England; It is dated 1854
end is recommendation of Symor
Raynard. Charles VS. ambassador, and
the principal negotiator of the Span
sh match
Documents relating to the Field OF
the Cloth of Gold have their place in
this collection, including a mandate
eigned Francois and dated Septem-
Der s, 1920, being IAN order to the
treasurer and receiver general to pay
certain sums for the reimbursement
Of expenses incurred in the month of
June last past during the journey we
made to the town of Andres and its
neighborhood in the matter of the
visit, meeting, and parliament between
us and our very dear and good brother
snd ally, the king of England, and for
the feasts. banQuets and other similar
expenses that we there incurred"
The catalogue comprises some rare
Photograph letters from Catherine de
Melici written to her daughter Eliza.
beth, queen of Spain, between 1860
and 1870. One of them contains the
'ollowing: And so my daughter, my
dear, commend yourself to God, for
YOU have seen me as happy as your
self. never expecting to have any
other sorrow. except that of not be-
ing sufficiently loved by the king your
father (Henry ID, who honored me
more than | deserved but loved him
50 much that | was always afraid, as
YOU know, that he did not love me
enough. And God has taken him from
me, and not content with that has left
me with three little children, and in
a strange kingdom. not having a soul
there whom l can trust who has not
some special ak to grind"
Other letters from Catherine men
ton the hostility of the Guises after
The death of her eldest son, Francis
H., husband of Mary Queen of Scots,
and the intrigues Of Admiral Coligny,
and the attempts of the Due de Ne
mours to carry off the Due d'Orleans
tafterward Henry I'LL and set him up
against his brother, Charles TX. There
is likewise a mass of Huguenot CORE
spondence.
Charles l., Charles II. and James H.
of England are well represented in
this collection, and among the state
documents there is the grant to Can
terbury of a mint and assay Office
made by Edward VI, and signed by
him, as we'll as by Cranmer and
Thomas Lord Seymour There are also
two of Cromwell's black letter procla.
nations, prohibiting horse racing for
six and eight months respectively
Owing to their being pasted up these
proclamations were soon destroyed
and the two present specimens are
consequently almost unique There
are twelve letters written by Nine
de Maintenon and an inventory-the
original manuscript-of the effects
left by Nine. de Pompadour at her
death. There is likewise manuscript
lated 1921 embodying the "Remem-
brances for Order and Decency to be
kept in the Upper House of Parlia
ment by the Lords. when his Majesty
is not there"