25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 61
 

61

Essex - High Ongar
Deed of Feoffment, for £4 and services to the chief lord, by Hugh de Panda to John Page, son of Silvester de Westwode for his service, all the land ...in the field called Stonfeld in the hamlet of Marden Ash in the parish of High Ongar in Essex to hold of Gilbert de Stanforde and his heirs by a rent of 1s. 8d. Nine witnesses including Robert the Constable (of Ongar Castle) and William de Welde. Dated Monday after Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 24, Edward I (17th Sept 1296).
Manuscript on vellum, 13cm x 26cm, sixteen lines, small hole at final word, two stains and three folds, white wax seal with flower motif (crumbled edge).

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

Auction: The David Stather Library, 25th Jan, 2023

A single-owner sale of the Library of David Stather (1940-2022)

The library comprises a large collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts on English history, focusing on the English Civil War, the ‘Popish Plot’,  the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution, early Parliament and the Monarchy of that period, the development of English law, the Reformation, early bibles and prayer books, chronicles of English history and some very early books on witchcraft.

The earliest manuscript dates from 1285, and the earliest book is an incunable from 1486, however the majority date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Interestingly, many are books that contribute to English history rather than just reporting on it, for example the collection includes books reporting the Popish Plot, which were written specifically to create social division through what is now known as ‘fake news’.

 The books have been lovingly preserved by David Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from a very focused collection built up over his lifetime.

Please submit any enquiries for the sale to books@tennants-ltd.co.uk 

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