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1. Add Ch 4614

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LETTERS PATENT of Louis XIV. relative to the cause of Marguérite Mercier, wife of the Sieur d'Espaisse, complainant against Louis Mercier, Sieur de Grigny, etc.; dated 28 Dec. 1655. [Add. Ch. 4614.] Presented by Edward Scott, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Louis XIV of France: Letters patent, relative to the cause of M. Mercier: 28 Dec. 1655. Marguérite Mercier: Letters patent of Louis XIV., relative to her cause: 28 Dec. 1655.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1655
Extent:
1 item

2. Add Ch 39942

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LETTERS Plenipotentiary of Charles II. addressed to Anthony [Ashley Cooper], Earl of Shaftesbury, and others to treat with Louis XIV. for peace and neutrality between the tropics; 1679. Signed. Presented by Lionel Cust, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Louis XIV of France: Powers of Charles II. of England to treat with, for peace between the tropics: 1679. Charles II of England: Letters plenipotentiary conc. peace with France between the tropics: 1679.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1679
Extent:
1 item

3. Add Ch 75453

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GRANT by Louis XIV to Sieur Morin of Châteaudun of permission to leave France for England; 1685. French. Signed by the King. Presented by Mrs Olive Valerie Hutt through her son, E. J. V. Hutt, Esq.
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Morin, of Châteaudun: Permission from Louis XIV to leave France for England,: 1685: Fr: Signed. Louis XIV of France: Permission to Sieur Morin to leave France for England,: 1685: Fr: Signed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1685
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4155

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Title:
English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
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This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 4156

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1650-1658 (especially 1654-1655)
Scope & Content:
The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1650-1658
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 4157

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1655-1657
Scope & Content:
The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1655-1657
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 4182

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COLLECTION OF NEWS-LETTERS; 1665-1746. Including:- (1) A series, in one handwriting, giving continuous news, domestic and foreign; Jan.-Nov. 1665. ff. 1-56. (2) A series, dated from London, giving occasional news; 9 Sept. 1684- 17 Feb. 169 4/5. Some are addressed to John Ellis, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1665-1746
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4193

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STATE PAPERS RELATING TO EUROPEAN AFFAIRS as affected in many cases by the Quadruple Alliance in 1718, with a few earlier documents; 1653-1730. The principal contents are as follows:- (1) Drafts, etc., of a treaty between George I as 'Electeur de Brunswick' and Frederick William, King of Prussi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1653-1730
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 4200

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GILES GRENE CORRESPONDENCE State letters and papers, many of them written to Giles Grene, Chairman of the Navy Committee, and afterwards President of the Committee for Foreign Affairs for the Parliament; 1645-1661. Interspersed among the correspondence are several ciphers and deciphers. The pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1645-1661
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 4280

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 325). Miscellaneous; circ. 1631-1681. The latter part of this volume contains Pell's letters to his wife Ithumaria, his son John, and his daughters Elizabeth and Bathshua, as well as papers connected with the rectory of Fobbing, co. Essex, to which he was presented by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1631-1681
Extent:
1 item