A catalogue of the manuscripts of the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful Sir Julius Caesar, Knight, Judge of the Admiralty, and one of the Masters of the Court of Requests in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; and in the Reign of King James I. Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. Consisting of a great Variety of authentic Records, Original Letters, and Papers of State, relating to the High Courts of Parliament, Exchequer, Chancery, Star-Chamber, Admiralty and Requests; ... the last planting of Virginia, the Tobacco Trade, &c. &c. Original Letters in the Handwriting of King James I. the Lords High Treasurers Burleigh, Buckhurst, Dorset, Salisbury, Suffolk, Southampton; the Lords High Admirals Howard Nottingham &c. &c. the Lords High Chancellors Hatton, Ellesmere. Verulam; the Archbishops of Canterbury, and York; the Dukes of Lenox and Buckingham; the Earls of Cumberland, Rutland, Lincoln, Leicester, Essex, Worcester, Sussex, Devon, Huntingdon, Holland, Kent, Ormond, Shrewsbury, Hertford, Bedford, Warwick, Clanrickard, &c. &c. Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir John Perrot, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Edward Coke, Sir John Hobart; with many, many more Lords, Ladies, Knights, &c. &c. as also of several foreign Princes, Ministers, Ambassadors, &c. &c. Treaties of Peace, &c. Genealogies of great Houses, Treatises on the History, Laws, &c. of these Realms. With Variety of other Matters, too tedious to enumerate; the whole tending to illustrate our History during those Reigns. Which will be sold by auction. At St. Paul's Coffee-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, on Wednesday 23d and Thursday 24th of November 1757, to begin each Evening precisely at Six O'Clock. The Manuscripts may be viewed on Saturday 22d of October, and every Day after, (sundays excepted) to the Time of Sale - Paterson, Samuel 1728-1802 (s.n, 1757)
At foot of title page: Catalogues may be had Gratis, at Mr. Arthur's, St. James's street; the Mount Coffee-House, Grosvenor-Street; the Cocoa-Tree, Pall Mall; the British Coffee-House, Charing-Cross; the Grecian, Devereux-Court; the Temple Exchange, Fleet-Street; the Bedford Coffee-House, Covent-Garden; the Museum Coffee house, Great Russel-Street; Batson's Coffee-House, Cornhill, and at the Place of Sale
English Short Title Catalog, T71510
Reproduction of original from British Library
Sale conditions signed: Samuel Paterson
The auction was postponed to 14 December, and the catalogue rewritten; the version for 14 December is entitled: 'A catalogue of several thousands of the most singular and interesting heads in the collection of manuscripts of .. Sir Julius Cæsar'