Instructions baillées à plusieurs Ambassadeurs et envoyez en diverses cours': transcripts of instructions and other papers of French Ambassadors going to or residing at the various foreign courts ; 1525-1661. In eight volumes, with tables of contents prefixed to each. For similar transcripts sec Add, MSS. 5455-5459, 30620-30623, in which many of these articles are repeated. The contents of the several volumes are as follows:-
(ff. 103, 114). Instructions, and correspondence with the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary of State, of Vice-Admiral Francis Hosier, commanding the squadron employed in the West Indies to prevent the Spaniards sending home treasure, of Commodore Edward St. Lo, in temporary command after the Vice-Admiral's death at Jamaica [25 Aug 1727], and of his successor Vice-Adm. Edward Hopson till his death [ 8 May, 1728]; 28 Mar. 1726-24 June, 1728. Prefixed (vol. i, ff. 1-6) is a detailed list, endorsed...
'Negociation de Monsieur [Antoine Lefèvre] de la Boderie, Ambassadeur en Angleterre': official papers of his two embassies-(1) as Ambassador in Ordinary, Apr. 1606- July, 1609;-(2) as Ambassador Extraordinary on business relating chiefly to the Clèves and Juliers succession dispute, Jan. 1610-Jan. 1611. Four volumes. Another copy is in Add. MSS. 30642-30644. Printed in Ambassades de .M. de La Boderie, 5 vols., 1750. In the edition the dispatches are in one continuous series. In the MS. the f...