Lot 6
Wesley (Samuel) Autograph Letter signed "S. Westley" to William Gates complaining he has not repaid a debt, 1703.
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Wesley (Samuel, Church of England clergyman and poet, father of John and Charles Wesley, bap. 1662, d. 1735) Autograph Letter signed "S. Westley" to William Gates at Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1p., address panel on verso, 250 x 175mm., n.p., 17th February 1703, complaining that he has not repaid a debt, "You know you have delayed to pay me what you long since promised: And therefore I shall not regard yor word any more... when ever you pay me the principal, you must remember to pay twenty guineas at last in the same: for I have a note of under yor hand for so many", folds, slightly creased and browned.
Description
Wesley (Samuel, Church of England clergyman and poet, father of John and Charles Wesley, bap. 1662, d. 1735) Autograph Letter signed "S. Westley" to William Gates at Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1p., address panel on verso, 250 x 175mm., n.p., 17th February 1703, complaining that he has not repaid a debt, "You know you have delayed to pay me what you long since promised: And therefore I shall not regard yor word any more... when ever you pay me the principal, you must remember to pay twenty guineas at last in the same: for I have a note of under yor hand for so many", folds, slightly creased and browned.
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