Negociation de Monsieur [Jean de Varignies, Seigneur] de Blainville, Ambassadeur en Angleterre en l'année 1626.' Two volumes, paged continuously, with table of contents at end. Another copy is in Add. MS. 30651. Cf. 'L'Ambassade de M. de Blainville' in Revue des Questions Historiques, xxiii (1878), p. 176. Blainville did not come to England till Oct. 1625, but the correspondence begins in July, when Daniel de la Mothe-Houdancourt, Bishop of Mende, the Queen's Grand Almoner, and Tanneguy le V...
8vo. Vol. II. and III. of Bishop Kennett's Collections: consisting of three small Common-place books of Bishop Kennett, and a Diary, or Breviate of his expenses, readings, and occurrences between 1680 and 1688.
8vo. Vol. XXXVI. and XXXVII. of the Kennett Collections. Consisting of Extracts from printed books. Many of them in the years 1660, 1661, and 1662, appear to have been gathered as the first materials for Bishop Kennett's Register and Chronicle.
4to. Vol. LXVIII. to Vol. LXXVI. of Bishop Kennett's Collections: containing the Original Materials for a Register of the Church of England, a Portion of which was published in 1128 under the title of "A Register and Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil Vol. I. Faithfully taken from the Manuscript Collections of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough." In folio. Prefixed to the last of these Volumes is the following Title, which seems to have been intended for the whole, had the Work been completed;...
folio. Vol. LXXXVII. to Vol. XC. of Bishop Kennett's Collections: containing Bishop Kennett's Materials for an Ecclesiastical History of England from A.D. 1500 to A.D. 1717.
folio. Vol. XCI. to XCV. of Bishop Kennett's Collections: containing his Collections, chiefly in his own hand, for a History of the Diocese of Peterborough; with particulars of all the Parishes in Northamptonshire, for the most part alphabetically arranged. At the beginning of Vol. XCII. is a transcript of Dr. Fletcher's Manuscript (Dean of Peterborough) on the "Tryal and Death of Mary Queen of Scotts." Vol. XC. has the following title-page to itself. "Notitia Dioecesis Petriburgensis, in D...
The main run of the Minute Books contains a chronological account of the meetings of the Committee of the Literary Fund. The majority of these were general meetings, at which Fund business was discussed and applications considered. After an initial period of fluctuations, from the 1810s these me...
This sub-series comprises the indexes to the main run of Minute Books (RLF 2/1). The two index volumes (Loan 96 RLF 2/2/1 and Loan 96 RLF 2/2/2) contain detailed references to the contents of the main run, and are especially useful for locating administrative information or pronouncements by offi...
Royal Literary Fund - Minute Books - subsidiary volumes
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This sub-series contains bound volumes associated with the Minute Books, but not part of the main run. There are two types of volumes. The Sub-Committee Minute Books (Loan 96 RLF 2/3/1 and Loan 96 RLF 2/3/2) give the minutes of the Sub-Committee that met to deal with any Fund business that requir...