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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3509
Title:: CONFESSION OF ROBERT DE WOURDRETON. Copies (15th cent.) of the confession of Robert de Wourdreton, servant of the English minstrel and harpist, Walter ('Watier', 'Gautier') and his wife 'Felix', that he had been engaged by Charles II of Navarre to poison Charles VI of France and the Royal Princes, 20 Mar. 1384/5, and (ff. 7-8) of the report of the surgeons and apothecaries of Paris on the arsenic procured for the purpose, 21 Mar. 1384/5. French. Printed by D. F. Secousse, Recueil de Pièces s...
Scope & Content:: Walter, alias 'Watier', 'Gautier'; English minstrel: Details of his life in France: 1384, 1385.: Fr.: Copy, 15th cent. Charles II; King of Navarre: Confession by R. de Wourdreton of his design to poison Charles VI of France,: 1385.: Fr.: Copy, 15th cent. Charles VI of France: Confession by R. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3667
Title:: CARISBROOKE PRIORY CHARTULARY CHARTULARY OF CARISBROOKE PRIORY, Isle of Wight; temp. Henry III [between 1216-1272], with additions down to the 15th cent. Latin and French (on f. 75). See G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain, 1958, p. 25, no. 213. Founded circ. 1156 as a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of Lyre, in Normandy, Carisbrooke was therefore an alien house. After various vicissitudes, it was finally suppressed in 1414 by Henry V and given to the Charterhouse of Sheen. ...
Scope & Content:: Chartularies: Carisbrooke Priory: 13th-15th centt.: Lat. and Fr. Carisbrooke; I. of Wight. Priory: Chartulary: 13th-15th cent.: Lat. and Fr. Bindings ENGLISH: Brown leather on poplar boards: 13th-14th cent. includes: ff. iii-iiib Roger Powell, bookbinder: Note by: 1950.ff. 93-93b Taxes: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1216-1499
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3672-3675
Title:: FRY PAPERS
Scope & Content:: Correspondence and papers of Elizabeth Fry née Gurney, the Quaker and prison reformer (b. 1780, d. 1845), and of other members of the Fry and Gurney families; 1700-1872. The chief correspondents are Elizabeth Fry's husband, Joseph Fry, her sister, Rachel Gurney, and her eldest daughter, Katharin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1700-1872
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3673 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: FRY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 224). Correspondence; 1814-1825. The letters and papers at ff. 14, 19, 22, 48, 70, 93, 95, 97, 143, 149 and 154 are printed in whole or in part in the Memoir, i, pp. 224, 228, 229, 240, 250, 256, 269, 281, 282, 342 and 364. Rachel Gurney, sister of Elizabeth Fry: Corre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1814-1825
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3674
Title:
Scope & Content:: FRY PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 222). Correspondence; 1826-1837. The letters at ff. 9b, 45 and 85 are printed in whole or in part in the Memoir, ii, pp. 16, 66 and 82. Katharine Fry, daughter of Elizabeth Fry: Correspondence with her mother: 1814-1845. Joseph Fry, son of W S Fry; husband of Elizabeth ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1826-1837
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3675
Title:
Scope & Content:: FRY PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 275). Correspondence, 1838-1872, and passports (ff. 267-275). Extracts from the letters at ff. 1 and 5 are printed in the Memoir, ii, pp. 259 and 260. Joseph Fry, son of W S Fry; husband of Elizabeth Fry: Correspondence with his wife: 1800-1845. Elizabeth Fry, prison r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1838-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3677
Title:: PANIZZI PAPERS. Letters, collected as autographs, mostly addressed to Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Principal Librarian of the British Museum; 1828-1878, n.d. English, French and Italian. Other general correspondence of Panizzi is Add. MSS. 36714-36729, 49596 and 59778. Among the few letters to other recipients in the present collection are some to Herbert Appold Grueber, Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, and to his family, 1879-1889, n.d. The letters are mostly arranged in al...
Scope & Content:: Sir Anthony Panizzi, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letters to: 1828-1878, n.d.: Engl., Fr. and Ital. includes: f. 1 Sir Anthony Panizzi, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letter to N. Bianchi: n.d.: Ital. f. 2 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; formerly Gordon; P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1828-1878
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3678
Title:
Scope & Content:: BULSTRODE PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 220). (1) Sir Joseph Williamson, M.P., Secretary of State; 1673-1682. Partly imperfect. ff. 1-64b. (2) Pedro Ronquillo Briceño, Spanish Ambassador to Great Britain; 1675-1680, n.d. French and Spanish. Signed. ff. 65-104b. (3) Henry Savile, Envoy to France; 167...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1673-1686
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3678-3683
Title:: BULSTRODE PAPERS. First Series. Letters to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Resident and later Envoy at Brussels, from individuals listed below; 1673-1689, n.d. Supplementary to Add. MSS. 38847, ff. 122-139, and 47899. Other related material in the Department is Harley MSS. 1514- 1523. For transcripts see Egerton MSS. 3684 A-C below. See Hist. MSS. Comm., 1st Report, 1870, App., p. 56, 15th Report, 1897, App. ii, and F. A. Middlebush, The Dispatches of Thomas Plott (1681-1682) and Thomas Chudleigh (16...
Scope & Content:: Netherlands. Southern Provinces: Correspondence of Sir R. Bulstrode, as Envoy to: 1673-1689. Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels: Letters to: 1673-1689, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1673-1689
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3681
Title:
Scope & Content:: BULSTRODE PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 227). (1) Bevil Skelton, Envoy at Vienna, Hamburg, The Hague and Paris; 1676-1687. Partly French and Latin. Partly signed. ff. 1-213. (2) Sir Peter Wyche, Resident at Hamburg; 1688. Signed. ff. 215-227. includes: ff. 1-213 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Bevil Skelt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1676-1688
Extent:: 1 item

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