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Language Cipher Name Digby, George, 2nd Earl of Bristol, politician, 1612-1677 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4159

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:
Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 18981

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Title:
Royalist correspondence, primarily addressed to Prince Rupert, 1643-1644
Scope & Content:
This is the second volume of the 'Rupert Correspondence' - overwhelmingly letters received by Rupert, Prince and Count Palatine of the Rhine (1619-1682) in 1644 - which descended in the family of Rupert's secretary Thomas Bennett until they were purchased by the publisher Richard Bentley, who in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and Scots
Date Range:
1643-1644
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 18982

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Title:
Royalist correspondence, primarily addressed to Prince Rupert, 1645-1658
Scope & Content:
This volume includes correspondence to Prince Rupert during 1645; on the politics of the royalists in exile, and his naval career between 1648 and 1653. At the end is an undated document, a memorial between his brother, Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, and King Charles II. There is some material...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1645-1658
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder