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2561. Add MS 78179-78184

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Add MS 78179-78184
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XII-XVII. Papers of Richard Browne as Clerk of the Green Cloth (1588) and Clerk Comptroller of the Household (1596) to Elizabeth I; etc.; circa 1552-1601, n.d. Six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Sir Richard Browne, MP: Papers as Clerk of the Green Cloth and Comptroller of the Household: circa 1552-1601, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1552-1601
Extent:
6 items

2562. Add MS 78194-78195

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Add MS 78194-78195
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXVII, XXVIII. Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I and II; 1645-1667. Mostly autograph. Partly drafts and copies. Partly cipher, deciphered in some cases. Consisting of retained draft and copy letters from Browne to Nicholas (some jointly to Lord Digby), Sept 1641-June 1644; followed by twenty-seven letters from Nicholas dated mostly from Caen, [?12/] 22 Dec. 1645-1 June 1648, along with the address-panel o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1645-1667
Extent:
2 items

2563. Add MS 78197-78200

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Add MS 78197-78200
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXX-XXXIII. General correspondence of Browne, chiefly in his capacity as English Agent and Resident in France; 1641-1678, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The first few items are retained copies of letters written by Browne while a student at Oxford. One series of newsletters written from London, 1646-1658, is subscribed only with the Greek letter Φ. Browne’s draft replies comprise some forty items. Further letters to Browne, remove...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1678
Extent:
4 items

2564. Add MS 78201-78203

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Add MS 78201-78203
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXXIV-XXXVI. Diplomatic papers of Sir Richard Browne; 1625-1637, n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The material derives from Browne’s early period in the diplomatic service. On the recommendation of Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester and Secretary of State, he went as secretary to Sir Isaac Wake, English ambassador (Oct. 1628-circa March 1631) to Savoy and subsequently (circa March 1631-May 1632) to France; see letters of Peter Turner to C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1637
Extent:
3 items

2565. Add MS 78207-78209

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Add MS 78207-78209
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XL-XLII. Papers, partly legal, relating to English shipping and mercantile affairs in France; 1640-1654. In return for a royal commission, privateers bringing their prizes into French ports were required to pay dues to Charles II and the Duke of York. Sir Richard Browne was one of those employed to supervise the sales and collect the proceeds; ‘from the close of 1652 to [spring 1656] Browne was actively engaged in Brittany, at Brest and Nantes, endeavouring to collect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1654
Extent:
3 items

2566. Add MS 78210-78214

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Add MS 78210-78214
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Minutes of meetings of the Privy Council; 1661-1667. The present rough notes, copied out collaboratively by Browne and his fellow clerks Sir Edward Walker and Sir John Nicholas, etc., relate to proceedings over fifteen complete months between Feb 1661 and Dec. 1667 (78210-78214), followed by a further fifty sporadic entries dating from July to Oct. 1660 and Feb. 1661 to Aug. 1670 (78215-78217). Complementary sets of minutes are preserved in Add. MS 37820 (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1661-1667
Extent:
5 items

2567. Add MS 78215-78217

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Add MS 78215-78217
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLVIII-L. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business, including draft minutes, petitions, reports, orders and supporting documents; 1614-1659>, 25 June 1660-30 Sept. 1678. Partly drafts, copies and extracts. The earliest items (78215, ff. 1-14) are copies or extracts in the hand of John Wolley the younger, Keeper of the Council Records. These are followed by further minutes, 1660-1670, partly in drafts by Browne, with orders, petitions and pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614-1678
Extent:
3 items

2568. Add MS 78218-78219

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Add MS 78218-78219
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LI, LII. Indices to Privy Council Books; 1621-1628. The Council Books indexed in these two volumes were numbered as 5 to 10 in the continuous series covering the reigns of James I and Charles I, though the page-references cited here do not correspond with those in the PRO printed series of Acts of the Privy Council. The first volume also includes occasional lists of passes, patents and commissions granted, and of orders passed, and the second summaries of ‘Presidents ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1628
Extent:
2 items

2569. Add MS 78223-78224

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Add MS 78223-78224
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVI, LVII. General correspondence of Browne; circa 1624-1683. Partly drafts. Partly Latin, Greek and French. Many of the writers are members of his extended family and household servants, including James Stephens, 1643-1675; Thomas Batty, 1643-1680; Edward, Francis, George and Susan Hungerford, 1646-1669; George, Mary and Samuel Tuke, 1646-1674; William Peters, 1647-1649; Samuel and Elizabeth Camby, 1650-1674; and John Higgins, 1669-1673. Also included are letters,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1624-1683
Extent:
2 items

2570. Add MS 78231 A-F

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Add MS 78231 A-F
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIV (ff. 152). Memoranda, with some notes of Browne’s reading, etc.; 1636-1682, n.d. Partly imperfect. Partly Latin, Greek, French and Italian. The memoranda, which were begun during his period of service with Scudamore and Leicester, include some from his period as Charles I’s agent in France. See also below Add. MS 78459 for an alphabetical commonplace-book of Browne that was re-used as an account-book, 1683-1690, by John Evelyn junior; headings run from ‘Absenti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1636-1682
Extent:
6 items

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