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‘Momentum vita est: momento pendet ab illo; | Sive perenne BONUM, sive perenne MALUM.’ Dated at Jena. Addressed to Johann Heuppel.

Dated at Chatelaine, [Ferney]. A pencil note records: ‘Cette pétition est dictée par Voltaire à n’en pas douter; écrite par son secrétaire [Jean-Louis Wagnière] signée par Donat Calas et datée par Voltaire lui même. A.D. (coll. de W. Upcott).’

The chasseurs du roi will arrive at St Vaast on 4 April.

(Transcript in an unidentified hand. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

(The draft letter is undated, but was probably written not long after Celia Doddridge’s letter.)

First line: ‘Dear Floid they say you’r Walpole’s firret’.

‘Gaude meo, gaude tuo, gaude etiam publico nomine, adhuc honor studiis durat.’ (Pliny, Letters, iv. 16.) Dated at Leipzig.

(Engraved by Simon François Ravenet. This illustration was first made for the series ‘English History Delineated’, 1750–2, and was afterwards reworked for inclusion in the second edition of Tobias Smollett’s Complete History of England (London, 1758), where it appears, folded up, between pp. 124 and 125 of the first volume. The present example resembles the version included in Smollett’s History but shows no signs of having been folded. See Simon Keynes, ‘The Cult of King Alfred the Great’, in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. xxviii (1999), pp. 294¬–5.)

Transcript

[In the margin:] Fulmodeston cum Croxton
Ad curiam Baronis generalem cum Leta ibidem tentam die Sabbati scilicet vndecimo die Ianuarii Anno Regni domini nostri Caroli dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie et Hibernie Regis fidei defensor etc: Decimo quinto Annoque domini 1639.

Et quod Thomas Vmphery natiuus tenens huius Manerij extra Curiam scilicet decimo Nono die Nouembris Anno domini Millesimo Sexcentensimo tricesimo octauo {1} secundum consuetudinem huius Manerij Sursum reddidit in manus dominorum istius Manerij per manus Thome Alford natiui tenentis dicti Manerij in presencia et testimonio Iacobi Ieruis et Iohannis Howman consimiliter natiuorum tenentium eiusdem Manerij vnam peciam terre continentem vnum† rodam iacentem in Clauso Iohannis Backe et abuttantem super terram dicti Thome Vmphery tam versus orientem quam uersus occidentem et iacet inter terram dicti Iohannis Backe tam versus boream quam versus austrum, Necnon vnam aliam peciam terre iacentem in alio Clauso dicti Iohannis Backe continentem per estimacionem dimidium vnius rode existentem inter parcellam vnius acre que fuit inclusa per dictum Thomam Vmphery et abuttat super terram dicti Iohannis Backe versus austrum Et super viam ducentem a Fulmodeston ad Croxton versus borream Ad opus et vsum Iohannis Backe et heredum suorum Superquo† ad hanc Curiam venit predictus Iohannes Backe et petit se ex gracia dominorum admitti tenens ad predicta premissa Quam quidem rodam inde vt parcella octodecem acrarum et trium rodarum terre natiue quondam Iohannis Bond quamque dimidiam rodam inde vt parcella vnius rode terre natiue interalia† predictus Thomas vmphrey simulcum Margareta vxor eius ceperunt ex sursum redditione Thome Vmphrey et Katherine vxoris eius ad Curiam baronis generalis cum Leta ibidem tentam die Marcurij† duodecimo die Octobris Anno Regni domini nostri Caroli nunc Regis Anglie etc’ septimo Millesimo Sexcentesimo tricesimo primo {2} prout in Rottulis eiusdem Curie patet Et admittitur dictus Iohannes Backe, Cui liberta est inde seisina per virgam Tenendum sibi et heredibus suis ad voluntatem dominorum secundum consuetudinem huius Manerij per redditus servicia et consuetudines inde prius debita et de Iure consueta Saluo Iure etc’ Et dand’ est de fine etc’:/ Et fecit proinde fidelitatem etc’:/

Examinatur per me Car: Turner [paraph] senescallum ibidem

[Endorsed:] Tho: vmphrey to Io Back of 1ac & 2 roods:/ And Io: Back to his wife for life of: 6ac 2r.

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The original capitalisation has been retained. Most abbreviations have been expanded. A few errors (‘Sexcem’mo’ for ‘Sexcenmo’, ‘dnorum’ for ‘d’norum’, and ‘Millimo’ for ‘Mill’imo’) have been silently corrected. Words written in a large hand in the original are in bold type.

{1} 19 Nov. 1638.

{2} 12 Oct. 1631.

† Sic.

Undated. From the first volume of Jackson’s New and Complete Newgate Calendar (1795), where this illustration faces p. 228.

(Letterpress, with an engraved illustration by Abraham Blooteling.)

Probably copied from a newspaper or journal. Numbered 31.

‘Bonæ mentis usurpatio nullum tristioris fortunæ recipit incursum.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

Upcott’s name has been added at the foot in pencil.

From the edition printed 'Coloniae Agrippinae [at Cologne]. Apud Henricum Falckenburg'.