er with his
books, manuscripts, pictures, and other collections, to his third
daughter, Katherine Somerset Wyttenbach, wife of the Rev. J.E.A.
Fenwick, at one time vicar of Needwood, Staffordshire. This bequest was,
however, encumbered with the singular condition, that neither his eldest
daughter, nor her husband, nor any Roman Catholic should ever enter the
house.[97] His second daughter, Maria Sophia, who married the Rev. John
Walcott of Bitterley Court, Shropshire, predeceased her father. Since
the manuscripts came into the possession of Mrs. Fenwick, portions have
been sold by private arrangement to several of the foreign governments;
amongst these, however, were no English ones. A large number of the
remainder have been disposed of by auction at a series of sales by
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, but the immense collection is by no means
exhausted. The first sale took place on August 3rd, 1886, and seven
following days; and the others on January 22nd, 1889, and two following
days; July 15th, 1891, and following day; December 7th, 1891, and
following day; July 4th, 1892, and two following days; June 19th, 1893,
and three following days; March 21st, 1895, and four following days;
June 10th, 1896, and six following days; May 17th, 1897, and three
following days; June 6th, 1898, and five following days; and June 5th,
1899, and five following days. The total amount realised at all these
auction sales is upwards of thirty-six thousand six hundred pounds. The
printed books in Phillipps's library, which 'included a complete set of
the publications privately printed by him at Middle Hill; important
heraldic and genealogical works, county histories and topography, Welsh
books, valuable dictionaries and grammars, and a large collection of
rare articles relating to America; history, voyages and travels,' were
sold in three parts by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on August 3rd, 1886,
and seven following days; January 22nd, 1889, and two following days;
and December 7th, 1891, and following day. There were five thousand four
hundred and sixty-two lots in the three sales, which realised three
thousand two hundred and fourteen pounds, thirteen shillings and
threepence.

About 1822 Sir Thomas Phillipps set up a private printing-press in
Broadway Tower, situated on his Middle Hill estate, where he printed a
large number of his manuscripts. Among the more important of these
were:--_Institutiones Clericorum in Comitatu Wiltoniae_, 1297-1