Vol. II. (ff. 181). STATE-DOCUMENTS relating to negotiations with foreign powers, consisting of credentials or instructions to English Ambassadors abroad, complimentary letters to foreign Sovereigns and their Ministers, etc., arranged chronologically; 25 Sept. 1675-20 Apr. 1680. Lat. and Fr.
TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
Scope & Content:
Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Vol. I. (ff. 240). "Princes," sc. correspondence of sovereigns and ministers of state, and " Strafford," sc. correspondence of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, with the Electress and others at the Court of Hanover.
" THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...