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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4108
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS OF LETTERS AND STATE PAPERS from the MS. collections of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans (1621), Lord Chancellor, etc., most of which are printed in Cabala, 1663. Paper; ff. 114. Small folio. XVIII cent. At the beginning are the notes (a) 'Mpts of Lord Bacons bought at the sale of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4109-4124
Title:: ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Ro...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr. Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1750-1751
Extent:: 16 items