Great Commission, Signed (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Inscription by Author, otherwise appears unread. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Reclaiming the Great Commission by Bishop Claude E. Payne and Hamilton Beazley. Inscribed by both authors on full title page. Hardcover first edition, first printing published in 2000 by Jossey-Bass. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Inscribed and signed by Dickinson on the second endpaper. weight: 2.4 lb. Very good. 8vo., 23x15 cm. IV,496, IV pp. Half brown morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine title, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.

Hardcover. 4to. 30cm, 31, 18pp., appendices, marbledendpapers, full pebbled morocco presenation binding, gilt titles onfront, spine torn & chipped, rear cover rubbed, very good. (ads) Ascarce presentation copy with name in gilt on front-prominent Montreallawyer and Canadian Senator, Frederick L. Belique. The "argument" ispresented by the Canadian legal councillors representing Great Britainon the Commission: Frederick Peters (Prime Minister of Prince EdwardIsland, 1891-97); Ernest V. Bodwell (Governor of British Columbia);Charles Hibbert Tupper (Canadian cabinet minister); and Frederick L.Belique. Although the Bering Sea Arbitration was settled in 1893 infavour of Great Britain, the Commission was convened to address thequestion of specific damages.

A printed commission enforcing the Jay Treaty, requiring captains to convey captured American privateers safely to England for trial as pirates. It is signed by three Lords of the Admiralty - Charles Small Pybus (1766-1810), William Young (1751-1821), and James Gambier (1756-1833) - alongside the Second Secretary to the Admiralty, William Marsden (1754-1836). The commissioners request the "Commanders of His Majesty's Ships of War. send to England all American Citizens, taken by them in Arms, who may have committed any Acts of Hostility or Violence", following the terms of the 21st article of the 1794 Jay Treaty. The commission includes a copy of that article - "we send you herewith a transcript of the XXIst Article of the said Treaty" - printed in the same format on the same watermarked paper. As far as can be determined, neither is recorded in any institutional collection. The Jay Treaty of 1794 preserved peace between Britain and the United States. A major point of contention was that Britain and France, then at war, had recruited American sailors for privateering against one another. Article 21 prohibited the use of American sailors and required that those captured by the Royal Navy be conveyed to Britain for trial as pirates, denying them the protected status of privateers. 2 items, each single bifolium, page size 326 x 204 mm. Each docketed in contemporary hand. Old fold lines, else in effectively fine condition.

appointing Hugh FitzJohn Simpson (1881-1914) as 2nd Lieutenant in "Our Land Forces. or in such higher rank. from time to time. of which a notification will be made in the London Gazette", printed in a handsome italic type with manuscript additions, enjoining him "to exercise and well discipline in Arms. the inferior Officers and Men serving under you.", good papered seal still bearing Queen Victoria's title and arms, signed also by St. John Brodrick (1856-1942, introduced the 'Brodrick' forage cap, from 1907 9th Viscount Midleton, from 1920 1st Earl of Midleton) as Secretary of State for War, 1900-1903, 1 side 12" x 15¾", short title on verso, Court at St. James's, 3rd May former folds neatly strengthened on verso, last line of title on verso covered but can be made out In 1914 Simpson was in the 21st Battalion, London Regiment (Territorial), which was mobilised, but he died while the battalion was still in England.

beginning with the Queen's titles, appointing James Charles Cavendish, (1838-1918, grandson of the 7th Duke of Devonshire), Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, as from 1st August 1855, signed also by Major-General Jonathan Peel (1799-1879, M.P., brother of the Prime Minister, Secretary for War, 1858 and 1866 under Lord Derby) and by J.W. Stocks, revenue stamp and papered seal of Queen Victoria, engraved with manuscript details, manuscript title on verso, 1 side 9½" x 14" on stout linen paper, Court at Windsor, 21st August two folds neatly strengthened on verso The Commission was not "entered with the Secretary at War" till 23rd October 1858.