Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (the "Winter Queen")Autograph letter signed (“your Majestie’s Most humble and most affectionat Aunt and servant Elizabeth”), to King Charles II (“My dearest Nephew”)
passing on a report from the diplomat William Curtius in Frankfurt, that “all the Princes deputies assembled there did come to him to congratulate your coronation & that one Dr Leifrid professor at Tubingin the Duke of Wirtenbergs countie having writ a base booke to prove the kings murther lawfull the Duke putt him into close prison and had the booke burnt by the hangmans hande, and condemned the authour to the fire, but he was saved by great intercession and banished for ever”, with further advice on diplomatic dealings with the German princes, 2 pages, folio, the Hague, 8 April [1651 (?)], integral autograph address leaf with remains of black wax armorial seal and silk threads, strengthened at folds, seal tear not affecting text
[with:] Document signed, (“Elizabeth”) , confirming the grant of 20,000 Dutch florins to her son Prince Rupert of the Rhine, countersigned by her steward Robert Honywood, in French, 2 pages, folio, 9/19 November 1642, papered seal, integral blank, docketed, spotting
A REMARKABLE LETTER BY THE "WINTER QUEEN" TO CHARLES II, DISCUSSING GERMAN RESPONSES TO EVENTS IN BRITAIN. The letter dates from Charles's short-lived period of rule in Scotland, before the kingdom was conquered by Cromwell and the royalist cause was finally defeated at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. His aunt, who had by this time been living in exile in the Hague for decades, here provides encouraging news of the level of support for the Stuart cause amongst the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Their disquiet at the Republican regime was naturally fed by the regicide, as is revealed by her report of the suppression of a book by a professor at Tübingen.
PROVENANCE:[letter only] ? Sir Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (d.1666); by descent to John Moyer Heathcote of Conington Castle (see the Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of J.M. Heathcote, 1899, p.6); presumably amongst the papers sold to Evelyn Fanshaw in the early 20th century and subsequently dispersed at auction; [both items] Robert Kubík (1912 - 1984), Czech journalist and collector, chiefly of manuscripts of Czech interest
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (the "Winter Queen")Autograph letter signed (“your Majestie’s Most humble and most affectionat Aunt and servant Elizabeth”), to King Charles II (“My dearest Nephew”)
passing on a report from the diplomat William Curtius in Frankfurt, that “all the Princes deputies assembled there did come to him to congratulate your coronation & that one Dr Leifrid professor at Tubingin the Duke of Wirtenbergs countie having writ a base booke to prove the kings murther lawfull the Duke putt him into close prison and had the booke burnt by the hangmans hande, and condemned the authour to the fire, but he was saved by great intercession and banished for ever”, with further advice on diplomatic dealings with the German princes, 2 pages, folio, the Hague, 8 April [1651 (?)], integral autograph address leaf with remains of black wax armorial seal and silk threads, strengthened at folds, seal tear not affecting text
[with:] Document signed, (“Elizabeth”) , confirming the grant of 20,000 Dutch florins to her son Prince Rupert of the Rhine, countersigned by her steward Robert Honywood, in French, 2 pages, folio, 9/19 November 1642, papered seal, integral blank, docketed, spotting
A REMARKABLE LETTER BY THE "WINTER QUEEN" TO CHARLES II, DISCUSSING GERMAN RESPONSES TO EVENTS IN BRITAIN. The letter dates from Charles's short-lived period of rule in Scotland, before the kingdom was conquered by Cromwell and the royalist cause was finally defeated at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. His aunt, who had by this time been living in exile in the Hague for decades, here provides encouraging news of the level of support for the Stuart cause amongst the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Their disquiet at the Republican regime was naturally fed by the regicide, as is revealed by her report of the suppression of a book by a professor at Tübingen.
PROVENANCE:[letter only] ? Sir Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (d.1666); by descent to John Moyer Heathcote of Conington Castle (see the Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of J.M. Heathcote, 1899, p.6); presumably amongst the papers sold to Evelyn Fanshaw in the early 20th century and subsequently dispersed at auction; [both items] Robert Kubík (1912 - 1984), Czech journalist and collector, chiefly of manuscripts of Czech interest
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