COPIES Of official correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the commercial relations of Great Britain and Russia; 1732-1765. 1. Letters of [William Stanhope, Baron] Harrington, Secretary of State, with the Commissioners for Trade, reporting the progress of the negotiations of [George Forb...
Copies of historical letters relating to the Court of Russia, 1740-1766, viz. :- 1. Correspondence of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, English Ambassador to Russia, with [Robert Darcy], Earl of Holdernesse, Secretary of State, on the negotiations for a proposed convention between England and Russi...
COPIES of State Papers, 1744-1772, viz. 1. " Minute of a Cabinet Paper by Lord Chancellor Hardwicke in Dec. 1744, on the then posture of public affairs." In the hand of T. Astle. f. 1. 2. " Extract of Secretary Murray's [John Murray of Broughton, Secretary to the Pretender] examination befor...
" PROCEEDINGS against the Rebels after the Rebellion in 1745," consisting of a complete account of the legal proceedings against the prisoners at York and Carlisle, in Aug. and Sept. 1746, the witnesses' depositions, etc. At the end (f. 91) is added a copy of Queen Anne's Commission for regulati...
CORRESPONDENCE and papers, political and private, of Major Richard Phelps, Secretary to the Embassy at Turin, and Under- Secretary of State for the Northern Department; 17 Febr. 1744/5- 16 Febr. 1768. Prefixed are originals and copies of state despatches supplied for his use on entering office, 22 June, 1725-26 Sept. 1757. Phelps's official letters are rough drafts made for the Secretary of State, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who has in many instances added to, or even rewritten, the ...
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Richard Phelps, Under-Secretary for Northern Department: Political correspondence and papers: 1725-1768.
PIIELPS PAPENS. Vol. 11. (ff. 219). 28 Dec. 1758-C-] Dec. 1763. 1. Original letters to R. Phelps front (a) R[ichard] Bagot, [4th son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Bart., Secretary to the embassy at Venice] ; Venice, 7 Dec. 1762. f. 84; - (b) W[illiam] Bagot, [afterw. lst Baron baagot] , Siena, 12, ...
PHELPS PAPERS. Vol. III. (f. 234). 4 Jan.-30 July, 1764. 1. Letters to R. Phelps from (a) C[harles] Sl[oane Cadogan, 3rd Baron, afterw. lst Earl] Cadogan; Caussham [Caversham, co. Oxon.] 22 July. f. 217 ;-(b) Rob[ert] Foley and T- Selwin; Paris, 9 Febr. f. 56;-(c) Sir J. Goodricke; Stockholm, ...
PHELPS PAPERS. Vol. IV. (ff. 212). 1 Aug.-30 Nov. 1764. 1. Letters to R. Phelps from (a) [James Caulfield, 1st Earl of'] Charlemont ; Mount Street, [London], 13 Oct. f 144;-(b) Sit. J. Goodricke; Stockholm, 21 Sept. 12 Oct. ff. 103, 142;-(c) Robert Gordon; Aix, 20 Nov. f. 193;-(d) W. Gordon; R...
PHELPS PAPERS. Vol. V. (ff. 224). 7 Dec. 1764--29 March, 1765. 1. Letters to R. Phelps from (a) D. A. S. Cosby; Copenhagen, 26 March, 1765. f. 215;-(b) Sir J. Goodricke; Stockholm, 2 Febr. 1765. f. 144;-(c) W. Gordon.; Ratisbon, 14 Jan., 14 March, 1765. ff. 120, 204;-(d) Sir George Macartney, ...