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8041. Add MS 63749-63750

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WALPOLE PAPERS
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A, B, 63750. Correspondence of the Walpole family, etc.; 1703-1827. Partly copies and drafts. Partly printed. Partly French. Apparently at Wolterton Hall, co. Norf. until 1931. Purchased at Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 114. Paper. Two volumes in three parts. Original binding preserved separate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1703-1827
Extent:
3 items

8042. Add MS 63749 A

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Scope & Content:
WALPOLE PAPERS. Vol. I A. Correspondence of Horatio, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton (d.1756), with his brother Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; 1716-1744. Including papers relating to relations between George II and Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1742 (ff. 331-336v), Robert Walpole's retur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1716-1744
Extent:
1 item

8043. Add MS 63750

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WALPOLE PAPERS. Vol. II. Letters and papers found loose or pasted into the Walpole family's copies of Coxe's memoirs of Sir Robert and of Horatio Walpole; 1703-1827. The printed volumes contain bookplates of various members of the Walpole family, including Robert, 5th (and last) Earl of Orford o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1703-1827
Extent:
1 item

8044. Add MS 63752-63781

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PRESTON PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Sir Richard Graham, 3rd Bart., of Eske and Netherby, 1st Viscount Preston, Envoy Extraordinary in Paris (1682-1685), Master of the Great Wardrobe (1685-1688), Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland (1687-1688) and Secretary of State (1688); 1629-1760, n.d., but chiefly of the 1680s. Extensively calendared in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 261-428, to which detailed references are given below. Individual documents are stamped 'Netherby Library'. Purc...
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Charles II of England: James II of England: Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston: Correspondence and papers of Lord Preston, chiefly as Ambassador in Paris and Sec. of State: 1629-1760, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1629-1760
Extent:
30 items

8045. Add MS 63764-63771

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PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XIII-XX. Letters to Lord Preston, chiefly as Envoy in Paris, and to his secretary, Rowland Tempest; 1677-1686, n.d. Eight volumes.
Scope & Content:
Louis XIV of France: Correspondence and papers of Lord Preston, as Ambassador in Paris: 1682-1685: Partly Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1677-1686
Extent:
8 items

8046. Add MS 63771

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PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XX. Newsletters from Paris, Fontainebleau, Toulon, Turin, Genoa, Florence, The Hague, Frankfort, Regensburg, Cologne, Vienna, Passau, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, etc.; 1682-1688. Including some notes to Lord Preston and his secretary Tempest by informants and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1682-1688
Extent:
1 item

8047. Add MS 63772-63776

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PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XXI-XXV. Miscellaneous papers; 1667-temp. Geo. I. Five volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1667-temp. Geo. I
Extent:
5 items

8048. Add MS 63776

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PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XXV. Letters and papers, including newsletters from London, to Lord and Lady Preston, and some items of political verse; 1667-temp. Geo. I. Partly copies. Partly French, Latin, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. Some newsletters are printed in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 404-407 and o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1667
Extent:
1 item

8049. Add MS 63786

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BINDING FRAGMENTS: manuscript fragments found in the binding of a copy of S. Serlio, De Architectura libri quinque (Venice, 1569, 1568), British Library press-mark 1266. g. 18.; 15th cent. and 1513-1514. Transferred from the Preservation Service, 1986. Paper; ff. 22. 307 x 210mm. 1. ff. 1-16v. Commentary on canon law with particular reference to book v of the Decretals of Gregory IX, tituli xxxviii (De Poenitentiis et Remissionibus) and xxxix (De Sententia Excommunicationis); 15th cent. ...
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includes: ff. 1-16v Law CANON: Fragments of a commentary on the Decretals of Gregory IX: 15th cent: Lat.ff. 17-22v Accounts: Medicine and Surgery: Accounts rel. to medicines dispensed: 1513-1514: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1514
Extent:
1 item

8050. Add MS 63814

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MUSIC PUBLISHING: album of receipts, agreements and letters of musicians, chiefly relating to the firms John and Thomas Preston (John Preston & Son), and Coventry and Hollier; 1773-1863. Mostly receipts for copyright in musical compositions. The signatories, all of whom are included in the index to the present catalogue, include Johann André, Samuel Arnold, Thomas Attwood, Robert Birchall, H. R. Bishop, J. W. Callcott, John Davy, Tommaso Giordano, James Hook, Vincent Novello, George Onsl...
Scope & Content:
James [N?] Hallett: Witnessed: 1785-1822. John and Thomas Preston; music publishers: Coventry and Hollier; music publishers: Receipts, agreements and letters to J. and T. Preston and Coventry and Hollier (music publishers): 1773-1860. includes: f. 1 John Preston, music publisher: William Ja...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1773-1863
Extent:
1 item

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