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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language English Name Ellis, John, Under-Secretary of State, c 1644-1738

1. Add MS 32499

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Add MS 32499
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LETTER-BOOK of John Wallis, D.D., Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, decipherer of political correspondence to the government, etc., containing originals and copies of ciphered letters, with decipherings and keys, and including covering and other letters to Dr. Wallis from the Earls of Nottingham and Shrewsbury, Secretaries of State, and others, with copies of his replies, etc.; 1651-1701. The volume has been extensively used by the author of the Memoirs of Dr. Wallis, prefixed to hi...
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William III and Mary II of England: Intercepted Jacobite correspondence, with decipherings: 1689-1693.: Copies. England General Chronicles and History: Deciphers of intercepted letters: 1651-1694. Louis XIV of France: Deciphers of French diplomatic and other letters, etc.: 1651-1694. Cyphers:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1651-1701
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 32681

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Vol. II, ff. 441, July, 1681-1691. Sir Leoline Jenkins, Secretary of State: Correspondence with Col. H. Sydney: 1680, 1681. Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland: Correspondence with Col. H. Sydney: 1674, 1679 - 1681, 1689. Colonel Henry Sydney, Viscount Sydney (1689) and Earl of Romney (169...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jul 1681-1691
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 70518

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Add MS 70518
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Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
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These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume