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1. Stowe MS 246-247

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Stowe MS 246-247
Title:
COLLECTION of letters, principally on state affairs, addressed with few exceptions to James Craggs, Jun., Secretary at War [13 Apr. 1717], and Secretary of State [16 Mar. 1718]; 1711- 1720. With a few papers of an earlier date. Two volumes. Paper. Folio. The most important series consists of letters of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France in Jan. 17l5 and Ambassador in Feb. 1719. They are his private letters, as distinct from his formal despatches, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1711-1720
Extent:
2 items

2. Stowe MS 241-242

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Stowe MS 241-242
Title:
STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1688-1744
Extent:
2 items

3. Stowe MS 92-93

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Stowe MS 92-93
Title:
"INVENTAIRE chronologique et detail1é de toutes les chartes qui se trouvent dans les archives des Comtes de Flandre, deposées dans l'ancienne chambre des comptes du Roi à Lille." Compiled by Denis Joseph Godefroy, Keeper of the Archives de la Chambre des Comptes at Lille. In two volumes, comprising respectively the periods 706-1240 and 1241-1270. The title-pages are dated 1784 and 1785; and in the preface to vol. i. (f. 7) the compiler states that the work, a great part of the expense of whi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1782-1785
Extent:
2 items

4. Stowe MS 132-137

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Stowe MS 132-137
Title:
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
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items

5. Stowe MS 256-261

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Stowe MS 256-261
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE and papers, political and private, of Major Richard Phelps, Secretary to the Embassy at Turin, and Under- Secretary of State for the Northern Department; 17 Febr. 1744/5- 16 Febr. 1768. Prefixed are originals and copies of state despatches supplied for his use on entering office, 22 June, 1725-26 Sept. 1757. Phelps's official letters are rough drafts made for the Secretary of State, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who has in many instances added to, or even rewritten, the ...
Scope & Content:
Richard Phelps, Under-Secretary for Northern Department: Political correspondence and papers: 1725-1768.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
22 Jun 1725-16 Feb 1768
Extent:
6 items

6. Stowe MS 454-456

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Stowe MS 454-456
Title:
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vols. VIII.-X. (ff. 80, 27, 94). Treatise on Artillery, in French, in the hand of Jacob Richards. Three volumes, the last two containing illustrations. Inserted at the end of the third (f. 89) is a map of Newbury, co. Berks; followed (f. 90) by a French treatise entitled " Épreuves du Tir des Bombes avec le Canon par M. Lombard, Professeur royal aux Écoles du Corps-Royal de 1'Artillerie à Auxonne, 1787."
Scope & Content:
Ordnance: Treatise on Artillery, with plates: 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
3 items

7. Stowe MS 166-177

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Stowe MS 166-177
Title:
COLLECTION of State Papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt.; 1592-1633. A few earlier and later papers are included in the last volume. Edmondes was English Agent at Paris, 1592-1599; Ambassador at the Archduke Albert's court at Brussels, 1605-1609; Ambassador to France, 1610-1617; Comptroller of the Household, 1616 ; Treasurer of the Household, 1618; and died in 1639. Twelve volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection includes original letters of English ambassadors to France and S...
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Edmondes, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1592-1633, with additions 1470-1663.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1592-1633
Extent:
12 items

8. Stowe MS 200-217

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Stowe MS 200-217
Title:
ESSEX PAPERS: Royal warrants, official and private letters and other papers addressed to Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex, while Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, followed by a register of his own letters; 1672-1677. Eighteen volumes. Paper. Folio. The correspondence chiefly relates to appointments to offices in Ireland, grants of lands under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, pensions, the farming of the revenues, the irregularities in the payment of the forces in Ireland, the disabilities of th...
Scope & Content:
Trade: Letters and papers relating to trade in Ireland: 1672-1679. Roman Catholics: Letters relating to, in Ireland: 1672-1677. Revenue: Papers relating to the revenue in Ireland, during the Lord Lieutenancy of Lord Essex: 1672-1677. Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount (1669) and 1st Earl (1674) of R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1672-1677
Extent:
18 items

9. Stowe MS 222-232

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Stowe MS 222-232
Title:
HANOVER PAPERS, being the correspondence and papers of J- Robethon, private secretary (1) to William III., (2) to George William, Duke of Zell, and (3) to George Louis, Elector of Hanover, and George I. of England; 2 Oct. 1692-13 Nov. 1719. Eleven volumes. Paper. Folio. Vols. i.-x. have been re-arranged chronologically ; vol. xi., consisting of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, remains unaltered. At Robethon's death the collection passed to his eldest son, Col. Robethon, and after the lat...
Scope & Content:
J- Robethon, Private Secretary to William III., and afterwards to George I: Official and private correspondence and papers: 1692-1722.: Fr., Engl., and Germ. James Macpherson, Historian: Transcribed and published extracts from MSS: in 1775. George I of England: Correspondence and papers of J. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2 Oct 1692-13 Nov 1719
Extent:
11 items