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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38597
Title:: LETTER-BOOK contaning,, drafts of letters, official and private, of Thomas Read [Reid, Ithaedus], Latin Secretary to James I, covering the period 1619-1623 ; with a few common-places. Autograph, except for f. 109. The official correspondence, which forms the bulk of the volume, comprises drafts, chiefly in Latin, of letters from James I to foreign sovereigns, etc., dealing, among other matters, with the sending of English levies to Poland; the Palatinate War and the special embassy of Sir Ed...
Scope & Content:: James I of England: State letter of, in letterbook of his Latin Sec., T. Read: 1619-1623.: Drafts. Philip IV of Spain: Letters to, from James I: 1620, 1621.: Lat.: Drafts. includes: f. 1 Christian IV of Denmark: Letter to the Queen Mother, Sophia, from James 1: 1619.: Lat.: Draft. f. 1 b Fred...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1619-1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38697
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. i + 162). 1693. Adam Caxdonnel, junior, Secretary to the Duke of Marlborough: Drafts of correspondence: 1691-1703. includes: f. 12 L- Defraisne, Quartermaster Of Paheau's Regt: Receipt by: 1694.: Fr. ff. 12,15 T- Bruyn: Certificates of payment: 1693.: Dutch. f. 15 S. Doyen, Quart...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1693
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38698
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V (ff. i + 195). Jan.-11 June, 1694, o.s. Adam Caxdonnel, junior, Secretary to the Duke of Marlborough: Drafts of correspondence: 1691-1703. includes: f. 3 Colonel Edward Dutton Colt, Hales' Regt: List of officers in his regiment signed by: 1694. ff. 7, 9 John Cutts, Baron Cutts; Governo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:: 1694
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38700
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VII (ff. i + 238). 1695. Adam Caxdonnel, junior, Secretary to the Duke of Marlborough: Drafts of correspondence: 1691-1703. includes: f. 3 Captain Adam Bland: Petition for employment: circ. 1695. f.13 George Tollet, Clerk to the Commisstoners of Public Accompts: Letter to W. Blathwayt: 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:: 1695
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38701
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VIII (ff. i + 149). 1696. Adam Caxdonnel, junior, Secretary to the Duke of Marlborough: Drafts of correspondence: 1691-1703. includes: f. 1 Ordnance: Case of the patentees for casting big guns: circ. 1696. f. 3 Ordnance: Propositions conc. guns newly invented: circ. 1696. ff. 10, 89, 116...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:: 1696
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38706
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XIII (ff. i + 155). 1701. Adam Caxdonnel, junior, Secretary to the Duke of Marlborough: Drafts of correspondence: 1691-1703. William Lowndes, Secretary to the Treasury: Treasury orders signed by: 1695, 1700-1704. includes: ff. 3, 26 R- Obblet, Captain of Guides in the British service: L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1701
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38823
Title:: Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:: c 1582-c 1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39254
Title:: POLITICAL TRACTS, temp. James I, viz. : 1. A Discourse of Peace or War, with prefatory letter to the King. By John Atkinson (see Add. MS. 34219 and Cal. State Papers Domestic, 1603-1610, p. 18). The date is evidently 1603. Other copies are in Add. MS. 38139, f. 46 (fragmentary) and Harley MS. 6353, f. 51, with which the present copy nearly agrees. f. 3. 2. "For the freeings of the Palatinate by armes" (cf. Harl. 6353, f. 70 b). f. 40. 3. "A short vew taken of Great Brittaine, and Spaine"...
Scope & Content:: James I of England: Discourse of Peace or War, by J. Atkinson, addressed to (cf. 38139, f. 46).: 1603. includes: f. 3 Political Tracts: J. Atkinson, Discourse of Peace. or War: 1603. f. 3 John Atkinson: Discourse of Peace or War: 1603. ff. 3, 44 Philip IV of Spain: English tracts urging, war w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [between 1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39292
Title:: PAPERS relating to the Dutch West India Company, circ. 1699-1770, being the manuscript part of a collection acquired by the Department of Printed Books in Jan. 1850. The printed portions are bound in three volumes (press-mark 1324. k. 1-3), and include many memorials, reports and extracts from proceedings of the States-General, States of Holland, Chambers of Amsterdam, Zeeland, etc. The manuscript papers are of a similar character, with the additions of notes, probably made by officials of t...
Scope & Content:: Netherlands, United Provinces: Papers rel. to the Dutch W. India Co.: 1744-1770.: Dutch.: Chiefly copies. West India Company; Dutch: Papers rel. to: 1744-1770.: Dutch. Trade and Commerce: Papers rel. to the Dutch West India Co.: 1699-1770.: Dutch. Dutch MSS: : 18th cent.: Dutch. includes: f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: c 1699-1770
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40629
Title:: CASSIOBURY PAPERS. Vol. V. Miscellaneous State-papers and letters, etc., viz.:- 1. Valuation of Peterborough Abbey: "Valor tocius nuper monasterii ibidem de anno r.r. Henrici viijui xxxjmo" [1539]. Amount 2003l. 13s. l.5/8d. gross, 1746l. 15s. 3 3/8d. net. f. 1. 2. Letter of [Sir Richard Morison] to the Privy Council, endorsed (f. 15 b) "from Augusta [Augsburg] the last of August," 1552. Hologr. draft. The conclusion (f. 21 b) is on the back of the last sheet but one. f. 15. 3. "La Ma^...
Scope & Content:: Capell family: Papers of: 16th-19th centt. Watford, Hertfordshire: Papers rel. to the Capell estates at Cassiobury: 13th-19th centt. includes: f. 1 Accompts: Valuation of Peterborough Abbey: 1539.f. 1 Peterborough Abbey; Northamptonshire: Valuation: 1539.f. 15 Sir Richard Morison, d 155...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1539-1688
Extent:: 1 item

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