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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 34316-34385 Level [36] Series

1. Add MS 34329-34335

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Add MS 34329-34335
Title:
STATE-PAPERS, letters, etc., relating to negotiations with Portugal and Spain; l572-1720. Seven volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection was made by Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, and (1690) Secretary of State for Ireland. The letters comprise the correspondence of Southwell, when Envoy to Portugal (1665-1669), with the Secretaries of State and others, and, on his return, with Francis Parry, English Resident at Lisbon (1671-1680), and Paul Methuen, Envoy Extraordinary to Lisb...
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Kingdom of Spain: Negotiations in, by Sir R. Southwell, etc.: 1574-1720. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: State correspondence: 1665-1720. Kingdom of Portugal: Negotiations of Sir R. Southwell and others in: 1574-1720. England General Chronicles and History: Negotiations in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1572-1720
Extent:
7 items

2. Add MS 34336-34338

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Title:
LETTER-BOOKS of Sir Robert Southwell during his negotiations in Portugal; 1665-1669. Three volumes. He was first despatched as Envoy Extraordinary in Feb. 1665 [6] to mediate a treaty between Spain and Portugal, in conjunction with Richard Fanshawe, Envoy at Madrid, and subsequently with the latter's successor, [Edward Montagu, 1st] Earl of Sandwich. He returned to England on the conclusion of the treaty [Vol. II., f. 15] in Feb. 1667 [8], but was sent again with new Instructions [Vol. III.,...
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Charles II of Spain: Letter-books of Sir R. Southwell negotiating a treaty betw. Portugal and: 1665-1668. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: Letter-books: 1665-1669. Alphonso VI of Portugal: Letter-books of Sir R. Southwell when Envoy to: 1665-1669. Edward Montagu, Earl of Sand...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1665-1669
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 34339-34340

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Add MS 34339-34340
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS of state-papers and correspondence relating to transactions between England and the Netherlands ; 1668-1701. Some of the papers are in the handwriting of Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, etc.; others appear by their endorsements to have 'been written either for his use or for that of William Blathwayt, Secretary-at-War, etc. Two volumes Paper. Folio. The contents are:-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1668-1701
Extent:
2 items

4. Add MS 34341-34344

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Add MS 34341-34344
Title:
LETTERS to Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, etc. (with a few to Lord Arlington), chiefly from British agents in the Low Countries, and relating to the war with Holland and the abortive negociations for peace at Cologne; 1672-1674. Most of the letters are from [Sir Henry de Vic,] Baron de Vique, British Resident at Brussels; from Richard Bulstrode, Agent (and afterwards successively Resident and Envoy) at Brussels; from Joseph Chaumont, who appears to have been employed as an...
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Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: Letters to, from British agents in Brussels and Cologne: 1672 - 1674. Netherlands, United Provinces: Letters from English agents in: 1672-1674. Charles II of England: Letters to Sir R. South. well, from British agents in Brussels and Cologne: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1672-1674
Extent:
4 items

5. Add MS 34364-34385

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Add MS 34364-34385
Title:
COLLECTIONS for a History of Bedfordshire, made by Oliver St. John Cooper, Vicar of Thurleigh and Puddington, co. Bedford (b. 1741, d. 1801). Extracts were made from these papers for Lysons's Magna Britannia, and histories of three parishes were published by the collector in vol. iv. of Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica [Puddington, 1783; Wimmington, 1785; Odell, 1787]. Twenty-two volumes. Purchased by Thomas Orlebar Marsh, Vicar of Stevington, co. Bedf., from whom they passed by...
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Sir Thomas Phillipps, Baronet; of Middle Hill: Book-plates: 19th cent. Oliver St. John Cooper, Vicar of Thurleigh and Puddington, county Bedfordshire: Collections for a history of co. Bedf.: 18th cent. Book-plates: Phillipps (Sir Thomas), Bart.: 19th cent. Bedfordshire: Collections by Rev. O....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
22 items