ROUGH LIST Of Manuscripts belonging to George Capel, 5th Earl of Essex, as offered to the British Museum in Dec. 1808, and ultimately purchased by the Marquis of Buckingham. In the hand of Edward Jeffery, bookseller; and certified by F[rancis] D[ouce], Keeper of MSS. in the British Museum. The M...
Vol. I. ff. 277. Levant Company: Letter-books of Lord Chandos, Amb. at Constantinople, relating to: 1681-1688. Thomas Coke, Cancellarius at the English Factory at Constantinople: Letter-book of Lord Chandos, probably in his hand: 1681-1686. James Brydges, Baron Chandos: Letter-books, when Amb...
LETTER-BOOK containing copies of the letters of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, when Ambassador at Constantinople, written to the successive Secretaries of State in England, the Levant Company, the Consuls of the various Mediterranean Ports, and especially Gamaliel Nightingale, Consul at Aleppo, and WilliamRaye, ConsulatSmyrna, etc.; 30 Mar. 1681-16 July, 1688. Most of the letters relate to the transactions and interests of the Levant Company and to the Mediterranean Trade; but curious det...
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William Raye, Consul at Smyrna: Letters to, from Lord Chandos: 1681-1688.
Vol. II. ff. 105. Levant Company: Letter-books of Lord Chandos, Amb. at Constantinople, relating to: 1681-1688. James Brydges, Baron Chandos: Letter-books, when Ambassador at Constantinople: 1681-1688. City of Constantinople: Letters of Lord Chandos when Ambassador at: 1681-1688. Trade: Lett...
Letter of James II to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Windsor, 30 September, 1685
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Contents: A letter of James II (r. 1685-1688), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges (b. 1642, d. 1714), 8th Baron Chandos, as English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and the appointment of Sir William Soame (b. c. 1645, d. 16...
HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 525). 2 Oct. 1692-3 Jan. 1707. The writers are:- J-d'Alais; Hanover, 27 Nov. 1705. f. 339. François d'Auxy, Comte de Monceaux; Cassel, 17 Dec. 1703. f. 219. Louis William, Mar,-].ave of Baden- Baden, to the Duke of Marlborough; Rastat [in Baden], 5 Aug. 1705. Copy....
HANOVER PAPERS, being the correspondence and papers of J- Robethon, private secretary (1) to William III., (2) to George William, Duke of Zell, and (3) to George Louis, Elector of Hanover, and George I. of England; 2 Oct. 1692-13 Nov. 1719. Eleven volumes. Paper. Folio. Vols. i.-x. have been re-arranged chronologically ; vol. xi., consisting of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, remains unaltered. At Robethon's death the collection passed to his eldest son, Col. Robethon, and after the lat...
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J- Robethon, Private Secretary to William III., and afterwards to George I: Official and private correspondence and papers: 1692-1722.: Fr., Engl., and Germ. James Macpherson, Historian: Transcribed and published extracts from MSS: in 1775. George I of England: Correspondence and papers of J. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. III. (ff. 344). 2/13 Jan. 1710/1 -30 Dec./10 Jan. 1712. The writers are:- [James Butler, 2nd] Duke of Ormonde, to the Electress Sophia; London, 12, 18 June, O.S. 1711. ff. 88, 90. Ad[am] Cardonnel, [Jun.]; Camp de Lens, Camp de Viller Brulin, Camp devant Bouchain, 19 July-3...
