76/1864 [The Hague]. Lot of ±90 manuscript documents, pen and ink on paper, 13x on vellum, dated between 1546-1939, partly with paper seals attached, various sizes.

= Interesting collection concerning properties, inheritances, appointments etc., all written in or concerning the Hague. I.a. ±50 contracts concerning the sale and maintenance of a property on the "Oude Raemstraat" (dating from 1611 to 1883); a 16th century "brieve een jaerlicxe losrente" for a property in the Heulstraat (dated 9 June 1546); five "Extract uijte resolutien van de heeren staten van Hollandt ende Westfrieslant" of events dated between 1621 and 1651 concerning i.a. the acquittal of the state members who were imprisoned in Slot Loevesteijn in 1650 and the estate of the executed Johan van Oldenbarnevelt; a letter by Herbert van Beaumont (secretary and "chartermeester" of the Staten van Holland and Westvrieslant from 1640 onward) in which he discusses the political situation on the continent and recommends to aid the Catalan and Portugese war against Spain by sending a fleet of war in the hopes to end the war between the Republic and Spain.

€ (250-350)