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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 34316-34385 Language English Name Southwell, Robert, Clerk of the Privy Council

1. Add MS 34329-34335

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STATE-PAPERS, letters, etc., relating to negotiations with Portugal and Spain; l572-1720. Seven volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection was made by Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, and (1690) Secretary of State for Ireland. The letters comprise the correspondence of Southwell, when Envoy to Portugal (1665-1669), with the Secretaries of State and others, and, on his return, with Francis Parry, English Resident at Lisbon (1671-1680), and Paul Methuen, Envoy Extraordinary to Lisb...
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Kingdom of Spain: Negotiations in, by Sir R. Southwell, etc.: 1574-1720. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: State correspondence: 1665-1720. Kingdom of Portugal: Negotiations of Sir R. Southwell and others in: 1574-1720. England General Chronicles and History: Negotiations in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1572-1720
Extent:
7 items

2. Add MS 34336-34338

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LETTER-BOOKS of Sir Robert Southwell during his negotiations in Portugal; 1665-1669. Three volumes. He was first despatched as Envoy Extraordinary in Feb. 1665 [6] to mediate a treaty between Spain and Portugal, in conjunction with Richard Fanshawe, Envoy at Madrid, and subsequently with the latter's successor, [Edward Montagu, 1st] Earl of Sandwich. He returned to England on the conclusion of the treaty [Vol. II., f. 15] in Feb. 1667 [8], but was sent again with new Instructions [Vol. III.,...
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Charles II of Spain: Letter-books of Sir R. Southwell negotiating a treaty betw. Portugal and: 1665-1668. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: Letter-books: 1665-1669. Alphonso VI of Portugal: Letter-books of Sir R. Southwell when Envoy to: 1665-1669. Edward Montagu, Earl of Sand...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1665-1669
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 34341-34344

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LETTERS to Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, etc. (with a few to Lord Arlington), chiefly from British agents in the Low Countries, and relating to the war with Holland and the abortive negociations for peace at Cologne; 1672-1674. Most of the letters are from [Sir Henry de Vic,] Baron de Vique, British Resident at Brussels; from Richard Bulstrode, Agent (and afterwards successively Resident and Envoy) at Brussels; from Joseph Chaumont, who appears to have been employed as an...
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Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: Letters to, from British agents in Brussels and Cologne: 1672 - 1674. Netherlands, United Provinces: Letters from English agents in: 1672-1674. Charles II of England: Letters to Sir R. South. well, from British agents in Brussels and Cologne: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1672-1674
Extent:
4 items

4. Add MS 34345

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TWENTY-THREE LETTER addressed to Sir Robert Southwell by James Touehet, Earl of' Castlehaven, " Generale de Battalia " in the service of Spain, on political, military and private matters, and more particularly on the league between Spain and Holland against France and. England, and on his relati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1672-26 May 1674
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 34346

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TWENTY LETTERS addressed to Sir Robert Southwell by Sir Leoline Jenkins, when Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Cologne, relating to the movements of the French and Imperialist troops, the prospects of peace, etc. ; Cologne, 27 June, 1673-27 Mar. 1674. On 27 Oct. 1673 he writes (f. 16), " You w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1673-27 Mar 1674
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 34353

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" THE POINT Of Honour in the Salutation used at Sea by striking the flag and lowering the topsail, stated according to the Treaties, in answer to a differing account given of it in Sir William Temple's Memoirs." With the note by Sir Robert Southwell on the fly-leaf (f. 3), " A Treatise of the F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693-1699
Extent:
1 item