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1. Add MS 46943-46956

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Title:
A, Section III. PAPERS OF SIR PHILIP PERCEVAL, 2ND BART. EGMONT PAPERS. Vols. XXIV-XXVII. Egmont MSS. 24-37. Correspondence, etc., largely of and on behalf of Sir Philip Perceval, 2nd Bart. (b. 1656, d. 1680); 1665-1680, n.d. Partly Latin and French. The papers comprise accompts, partly personal, rent-rolls, inventories, legal papers, lists of deeds, correspondence, etc. (largely relating to his Irish estates) of his mother Katherine (d. 1679), her brother, Sir Robert Southwell (b. 1635, d....
Scope & Content:
Sir Philip Perceval, 2nd Baronet: Correspondence and papers, mostly rel. to his estates in Ireland: 1665-1680, n.d. Katherine Perceval, née Southwell; wife of Sir J Perceval, 1st Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1665-1679. Ireland: Correspondence and papers rel. chiefly to Perceval estates:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1665-1680
Extent:
23 items

2. Add MS 46957-46962

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Title:
A, Section IV. PAPERS OF SIR JOHN PERCEVAL, 3RD BART. EGMONT PAPERS. Vols. XXXVIII-XLIII. Egmont MSS. 38-43. Correspondence, accompts, etc., of Sir John Perceval, 3rd Bart. (b. 1660, d. 1686), with tenants, lawyers, agents, and stewards, especially his cousin, William Taylor, the elder, and William Cooper, mainly relating to his estates in Ireland, also family correspondence, as well as correspondence with, and papers of, his uncle, Sir Robert Southwell, together with a few letters of South...
Scope & Content:
Sir John Perceval, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers, mostly rel. to his estates in Ireland: 1680-1686, n.d. Robert Southwell, diplomatist; Knight 1665: Correspondence, etc., with his nephew, Sir J. Perceval: 1675-1686.: Engl. and Fr.: Partly signed. Sir John Perceval, 3rd Baronet: Corres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1686
Extent:
9 items

3. Add MS 47038-47042

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Title:
EGMONT PAPERS. Vols. CXIX-CXXIII. Papers relating to the administration of the Perceval estates, 1686-1704, during the minority of Sir Edward, 4th Bart., who died before coming of age in 1691, and of his brother Sir John, 5th Bart., later 1st Lord Egmont. The administration was first undertaken by Katherine Perceval, widow and executrix of Sir John, 3rd Bart., but on her remarriage in 1690 it passed in accordance with the terms of her husband's will to his uncle, Sir Robert Southwell, on who...
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Correspondence and papers rel. chiefly to Perceval estates: 1644-1748.: Partly copies and drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1686-1704
Extent:
5 items

4. Add MS 50102-50106

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Title:
HUTTON PAPERS. Vols. XXV-XXIX. Orders and notices, etc., by Hutton as Assistant Adjutant-General at the Curragh; 1897-1898. Mostly printed and duplicated. Five volumes.
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Orders, notices, etc., of E. T. H. Hutton as acting Adjutant-Gen. at the Curragh: 1897, 1898.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1898
Extent:
5 items

5. Add MS 59251-59257

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Add MS 59251-59257
Title:
DROPMORE PAPERS. Vols CCCXCVII-CCCCIII. Irish affairs; 1788-1829, n.d. Contains correspondence on Irish affairs with Lord Camden and the Duke of Portland for whom see also above, Add 58935, 58934. For Roman Catholic affairs, see also Add. 59264. Seven volumes.
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh; 2nd Marquess of Londonderry: Correspondence of Lord Castlereagh with Lord Grenville rel. to Irish affairs: circa 1798-1810?. Ireland: Papers of Lord Grenville rel. to Ireland: 1784-1813, n.d.: Partly printed; partly copies. John Jeffreys Pratt, 1s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1829
Extent:
7 items

6. Add MS 72858-72864

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. IX-XV. Letterbooks of Petty and his agents; 1671-1686. These were part of a sequence of volumes once in the collection of William Burton Conyngham, grandson of Mary, wife of Petty's eldest son Charles (d. 1696) by her second marriage. On his death in 1796 they were bought first by the collector Austin Cooper of Dublin (1759-1830), and then by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1831, becoming first Phillipps MS 6486, and then 14332-14349 (see Slatter, 'Report', I, p. 113). They were ...
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Letterbooks rel. to Sir W. Petty's Irish estates: 1671-1700.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1671-1686
Extent:
7 items

7. Add MS 72875 A-BB

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVI A-BB. Manuscript maps by a single unidentified cartographer, of Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio (London, 1685), the first printed atlas of Ireland, based on the Down Survey for those areas which it covered, and on earlier surveys of western areas, chiefly the Strafford survey of 1636-1640; [late 1650s-early 1660s]. There are no scale bars, but the scales are reduced from those of the Down Survey maps as follows: county maps 2 Irish miles to the inch [1:161,240]; province...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Ireland: Sir William Petty, political economist: MS maps for the Hiberniae Delineatio by Sir William Petty: late 1650s-early 1660s.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Late 1650s-Early 1660s]
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 72876 A-DD

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVII. 'Census' of Ireland
Scope & Content:
In ink-ruled columns, under the headings (by barony in the case of counties): 'Parishes', 'Places/Townlands', 'Number of People', 'Tituladoes Names', 'English (and Scots)', 'Irish'. In at least two different clerical hands, with the county totals on the first leaves apparently in Petty's hand,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1659?]
Extent:

30 volumes

9. Add MS 72883-72884

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Add MS 72883-72884
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XXXIV, XXXV. Papers relating to Ireland, arranged according to the list under the heading 'About Ireland' in Petty's 'Catalogus Scriptorum' of 1686 (printed in Petty Papers, II, pp. 264-266); 1685-1686. Many of them derive from Petty's attempts to respond to two pamphlets concerning the Irish land settlement: 'Queries', apparently by David Fitzgerald and 'A Narrative of the Sale and Settlement of Ireland'; see also Petty-Southwell Correspondence, pp. 147-150. Former Bowoo...
Scope & Content:
Sir William Petty, political economist: Essays and treatises rel. to Ireland by Sir William Petty: 1655-1687: Partly autogr. Roman Catholics: Papers of Sir W. Petty rel. the Down Survey and Irish land settlement: 1653-1687. James II of England: Proposals of Sir W. Petty for political, social a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1685-1686
Extent:
2 items

10. Add MS 72900-72902

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. LI-LIII. Papers, chiefly schedules of lands, petitions, court orders, reports and accounts, with some notes and letters of Petty, his widow and son Henry, relating to Petty's estates in the baronies of Glanerought, Iveragh and Dunkerron, co. Kerry, particularly concerning the disputed level of quit rents payable to the Crown after the Restoration; [1663?]-1728. Partly autograph; several with extensive 20th cent notes by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne. Although Petty had a ...
Scope & Content:
Robert Marshall, of Dublin: Legal papers rel. to the lands in Kerry assigned to R. Marshall and Sir W. Petty by Robert Marshall: [1663?]-1687. Ireland: Sir William Petty, political economist: County of Kerry: Disputes rel. to quit rents of Sir W. Petty's estates: [1663?]-1728: Partly copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1663?]-1728
Extent:
3 items