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1. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1473-1657
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1 item

2. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1644-1655
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1 item

3. Add MS 4200

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GILES GRENE CORRESPONDENCE State letters and papers, many of them written to Giles Grene, Chairman of the Navy Committee, and afterwards President of the Committee for Foreign Affairs for the Parliament; 1645-1661. Interspersed among the correspondence are several ciphers and deciphers. The pri...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1645-1661
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1 item

4. Add MS 4202

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ROOKE LETTERS Original Letters of Admiral Sir George Rooke to James Vernon, Secretary of State; from the 'Britannia' at Spithead, 17 June 1697, and from his flagship the 'Shrewsbury', 11 May-16 Sept. 1700. French, English and Latin. The subject of the letters is the joint expedition of the Engl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1697-1700
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1 item

5. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

6. Add MS 4444

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Vol. XIII (ff. 295). 1663-1765. includes: f. 1 Charles Mason, astronomer: Letter to Lord Macclesfield: 1762.f. 4 Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, French astronomer: Letter to J. Bevis: 1762.: Fr., with Engl. transl.f. 6 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield: Letter to the Duke of ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
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1 item

7. Add MS 4459

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Vol. II (ff. 212). (1) Sermon preached by an Aberdeen M.A. in 1666, 'When the Whiggamores, alias Covenanters, were in Arms'; apparently in Birch's early hand. ff. 1-2b. (2) Extract from Domesday-book, relating to the lands of Ilbert de Lacy in the West Riding of Yorkshire; from a copy made b...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1638-1755
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1 item

8. Add MS 21553

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MISCELLANEOUS letters and papers; from 1605 to 1790: 1. Certificate for the payment of the household apothecary, signed by Ro[ger] Marbeck, the King's physician; 3 July, 3 Jac. I. [1605], f. 2. 2. Thomas Harrison, High Sheriff for the county of York, to his brother-in-law, John Belton; dat. Dancershill [co. Middx.], 29 Sept. 1657, f. 3. 3. Sir Ja[mes] Butler to Sir Robert Southwell; Lincoln's Inn, 15 June, 1677, f. 6. 4. Receipt for payment of the quarterly allowance made to Eleanor Gw...
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includes: f. 2 Household, Royal: Certificate for payment of the household apothecary: 1605. f. 2 James I of England: Certificate for payment of the household apothecary: 1605. f. 2 Roger Marbeck, Physician to James I: Certificate for payment of the household apothecary: 1605. f. 3 Thomas Harris...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1605]-1790
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1 item

9. Add MS 23207

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"THE original Despatches communicating the principal victories obtained by the British Navy over the fleets of France and her allies in the course of the Revolutionary wars, 1794-1806. Collected by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1821." Addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, or Admirals in command, and accompanied by numerous enclosures, returns of killed and wounded, etc. The writers are [Rear Admiral Sir] George Montagu; "Hector," Plymouth, 3 June, 1794, ff. 3, 7...
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Navy; England: Navy despatches communicating victories: 1794-1806. Bindings ENGLISH: Velvet, with silver-gilt mounting and clasps: 19th cent. Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet: Official letters and reports to: 1797-1798. Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale; of Hatton: Letters to his brother t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1794-1806
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1 item

10. Add MS 23618

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DRAWINGS and plans of battles, sieges, etc., chiefly executed by Lieut.-Colonel C[harles] Hamilton Smith, viz.: 1. "Order of Battle of the British Combined Army in August 1794," f. 2. 2. "Position of St. Jean de Luz [in the Pyrenees] as occupied by the French Army under the Duke of Dalmatia, 10 Nov. 1813," f. 4. 3. "Bequis Bay [at the mouth of the Nile] with the situations of the English and French fleets on the 1. 2. and 3. of August, 1798," f. 5. 4. "Plan of the battle of Jemappes [i...
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Navy; England: Plans of naval battles, by Col. C. H. Smith: 19th cent. Military Tactics: Plans of battles and sieges, by Col. C. H. Smith: 19th cent. Maps and Plans: Miscellaneous maps and plans: 17th-19th centt. Charles Hamilton Smith, Lieutenant -Colonel: Military and naval drawings, and pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item