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1. Add Ch 76792-76802

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Add Ch 76792-76802
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COKE CHARTERS: SERIES A. Miscellaneous charters from the Coke Papers (Series II), Add. MSS. 69868-69935, which comprise chiefly the papers of Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to Charles I, and his son Sir John Coke the younger. The majority have been annotated in pencil with the item number assigned by the Derbyshire Record Office. As follows:
Scope & Content:
Sir John Coke, Secretary of State: Charles I of England: Correspondence and papers of Sir John Coke: 1541-1654, n.d.: Partly Lat., Fr., Ital., Span., Germ., Dutch: Partly copies and drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
11 items

2. Add MS 4106

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Vol. I (ff. 276). Viz:- (1) Appointment by Edward IV of John Russell, Bishop of Rochester, and Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers, to be Governors of Edward, Prince of Wales; 28 Sept. 1473. Copy. ff. 1-5b. (2) Sir Richard Morison to the Council; Spires, 7 Oct. 1552. Transcribed from Cotton MS. Ga...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1473-1657
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4107

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State papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch
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Collection of state papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch (1705-1766), compiler of histories and biographer. Vol. II. Including transcripts of letters in the hands Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records, Tower of London (ff. 68r-77v), and transcripts of letters from the Hanover Papers (Sto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1745
Extent:
1 volume.

4. Add MS 4150-4154

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'LES LETTRES, memoires, actes, instructions, contractz faicts au Traitté de Mariage d'entre Madame Henriette Marie, Soeur du Roy, et Charles premier, Roy de la Grande Bretagne'; 1624, 1625. Five volumes. Vols. I, III-V are consecutive and contain the negotiations of Tannequy le Veneur, Comte de Tillières, Antoine Coeffier Ruzé, Marquis d'Effiat, successive French Ambassadors to England, and others, whereas Vol. II concerns the 'Suitte du marriage d'Angleterre avec L'Ambassade de Mons' [Jean ...
Scope & Content:
Charles I of England: Letters and state papers rel. to his marriage with Henrietta Maria: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies. Louis XIII of France: Papers rel. to the marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, his daughter: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
5 items

5. Add MS 4155

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English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
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This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 4159

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State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
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Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 4191

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COLLECTION OF LETTERS, MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS, relating to the capture or detention of ships and goods off the coasts of France and Holland; 1644-1655. Included are:-(a) Remonstrance by the Committee of Lords and Commons for Foreign Affairs presented to Don Alonso de Cardenas, Spanish Ambassado...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1644-1655
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4205

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TRANSCRIPTS BY BIRCH of state letters and papers. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Memorabilia in the Earl of Strafford's letters', being brief notes of the contents of the two volumes of Letters of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, printed in 1740 by Dr. William Knowler from the origi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 4207

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MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL TRACTS and historical papers, some of them in Birch's autograph. Viz:- (1) 'An Inquiry into the Rights of Free Subjects in which the Cases of the British Sailors and Common Soldiers are distinctly Consider'd and Compar'd', etc. The MS. as prepared for the press. The tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 4292

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Collection of letters and papers made by Thomas Birch, chiefly transcripts in his autograph but including a few original letters; 17th-18th centt. Included are: (a) copies of the correspondence of Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, made from the originals among Bishop Gibson's MSS. in Lam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item