Search

Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Language English

61. Add MS 4155-4159

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4155-4159
Title:
THURLOE PAPERS. First Series. Collection of state letters and papers relating to events at home and abroad chiefly in the time of the Commonwealth. Most of the documents 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 afterwards came into the hands of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (1737), and were 'communicated' by him to Birch, according to the Preface to ...
Scope & Content:
John Thurloe, Secretary of State: Correspondence of and state papers collected by: 1577-1668.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1577-1692
Extent:
5 items

62. Add MS 4156

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4156
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

63. Add MS 4157

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4157
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

64. Add MS 4158

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4158
Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1657-1660
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, Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1657-1660
Extent:
1 volume

65. Add MS 4159

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4159
Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:
Many of 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 intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

66. Add MS 4160

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4160
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. I (ff. 340). Viz:- (1) Notes by Birch from the MSS. of Sir Julius Caesar, Master of the Rolls, relating to the latter's life and family, etc. ff. 1, 17-25. (2) Queen Elizabeth to Nicholas Throckmorton, Resident at the French Court, giving reasons of her determination not to send an Amba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1562
Extent:
1 item

67. Add MS 4160-4164

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4160-4164
Title:
COLLECTION OF TRANSCRIPTS, chiefly in the handwriting of Birch, of State Papers and letters, from private and public libraries, together with a few original papers; 1425-1728. Five volumes. Quarto. The names of the writers of the original papers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Included among these papers are:-
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1425-1728
Extent:
5 items

68. Add MS 4161

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4161
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. II (ff. 296). Opinion of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, on the legality of marriage between cousins german; Westminster College, 2 Mar. 1640/1. Autograph. f. 146. includes: ff. 99, 100 John Barlee: Letters to -: 1612.f. 146 John Williams, Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Lincoln, Lor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar [1641]
Extent:
1 item

69. Add MS 4162

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4162
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. III (ff. 280). Viz:-(a) James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1661, to John Maitland, 2nd Earl and 1st Duke (1672) of Lauderdale, on Church matters; London, 28 Apr. 1657. ff. 46-47;-(b) Robert Long to John Colepeper, Lord Colepeper; The Hague, June 1657. ff. 208-209b;-(c) Isaac Vossius to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1657-1681
Extent:
1 item

70. Add MS 4163

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 4163
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. IV (ff. 280). John Somers, Lord Somers, Lord Chancellor, to Lord — (? Thomas Wharton, Earl of Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), on the subject of Money Bills for Ireland; 15 July 1710. ff. 216-217b. includes: ff. 184-189b Nicolas Facio Duillier, mathematician: Letter to H. Hastings,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15 Jul 1710
Extent:
1 item