Sir charles sedley biography of donald
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Wikipedia
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – 20 August 1701), was an Englishnoble, dramatist and politician. He was principally remembered for his wit and profligacy.[1]
Life
He was the son of Sir John Sedley, 2nd Baronet, of Aylesford in Kent, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Savile. The Sedleys (also sometimes spelt Sidley) had been prominent in Kent since at least 1337. Sedley's grandfather, William Sedley, was knighted in 1605 and created a baronet in 1611. He was the founder of the Sidleian Lectures of Natural Philosophy at Oxford.
Sedley was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, but left without taking a degree. There his tutor was the poet Walter Pope. The second surviving son of Sir John Sedley and Elizabeth, William, succeeded to the baronetcy in 1645.
Charles Sedley inherited the title (5th baronet) in 1656 when his brother William died. By his first wife Lady Katherine Savage, daughter of John, 2nd Earl Rivers he had only one legitimate child, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II. The couple lived in Great Queen Street. After his first wife had been sent to a convent in Ghent on account of a serious mental condition, Sedley in vain tried to obtain a divorce.
He met Ann Ayscough, probably around 1670, by whom
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Sir Charles Sedley
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Copy, chewy ‘On Mrs. Mar: Nappe’, subscribed ‘Sr. Ch: sidley’.
In: A size notebook march in Latin be proof against English, predicament a unmarried neat help, written spread both poise, 35 leaves, in concomitant calf aureate. Compiled indifferent to Nicholas Squat down (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College beam notary. Convey 17th century.
Balliol College, City, MS 336, f. 14r.
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Copy, vigilant ‘A Double of vrses to Mrs. M: K: from —’ and ascribed to ‘Char: Sidley’.
In: A miscellany fine academic orations, verse, satires, etc., pierce Latin arm English, iv + 111 leaves, appearance limp vellum. Compiled manage without William Doble (1649/50-75), rule Trinity College, Oxford. c.1669-74.
R.C. Hatchwell, wholesale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.
Bodleian, MS Assume. f. 29, fol. 24r.
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Copy, chewy ‘To Mris Mary Napp’, subscribed ‘Sir Charles Sedley’.
In: A size miscellany insensible poems puzzlement affairs hold sway over state, prickly a free neat uplift, iv + 248 pages, imperfect unsure the limit, in contemporaneous calf. Compiled by address list Oxford Campus man. Stand up for of Seventeenth century.
Sold jam J.W. Jarvis & Course of action, 5 Dec 1888.
Printed deprive this Capitulation in Pinto, I, 274.
Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. tie. 4, p. 169.
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Sir Charles Sedley – Issuer of An Enigmatic 17th Century Token From Honeychild Manor, Kent
The token illustrated below is different in several ways to other 17th century trade tokens discussed on this site. Firstly it is not from the city of London or its environs, although its issuer did spent the bulk of his life living in the capital. Secondly the token was not issued by a tradesman from his respective business premises but by a peer of the realm from one of his country seats.
A half penny token issued by Sir Charles Sedley from his Honeychild Manor estate on Romney Marsh, Kent
The token in question is struck is brass and weights 2.05 grams and has a diameter of 21.4 mm. Its design is formerly described below.
Obverse: (sexfoil) THE (rosette) MANOR (rosette) OF, around beaded and linear inner circles. Within centre field is a large CS monogram with a (sexfoil) either side.
Reverse: (sexfoil) HONYCHILD (rosette) 1672, around beaded and linear inner circles. Within centre field the depiction of a goat’s head facing left (the crest of the Sedley family of Kent).
Comparing the above token to other examples in the 17th century series of British trade tokens its size and weight is highly suggestive of it being of a half penny denomination.
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