Vol. CXLIX (ff. 278). Jan.-June 1758. includes: f. 166 General Chronicles and History, etc. Navy of France: Lists of French men-of-war: 1753-1759.: Fr.
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. CLV (ff. 344). Intelligence reports from France relating to naval affairs; 1755-1756. Extracts, endorsed 'B. 1-3', 'C'and 'D', from the reports forwarded to Lord Holdernesse by Wolters and Hatton (see above, Vols. CXLII-CLIV). Richard Wolters, English agent in Rotterdam and a...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. CLVI (ff. 255). Correspondence of Lord Holdernesse with Duke Charles and Princes Louis Ernest and Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel; 1751-1762. French. Included are also a letter to George II from Prince Louis, 1759, with enclosures relating to a dispute between the...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. CLVII (ff. 119). Papers of Lord Holdernesse relating to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel; 1755-1761 (mostly of the year 1757). Included are:- (1) Two drafts of an obligation by George II to act as executor to the will of Landgrave William VIII; 1755. French. ff. 1, 5;- (2) Cop...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. CLVIII (ff. 233). Correspondence of Lord Holdernesse with:-(1) Hendrik Fagel, Greffier of the United Provinces; 1751-1762 (with two letters of 1771). Engl. and Fr. ff. 1-29;-(2) Count William Bentinck and Charles John Bentinck, sons of the 1st Earl of Portland, diplomatists in...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. CLIX (ff. 294). Miscellaneous foreign correspondence of Lord Holdernesse; 1751-1761 (with one letter of 1775). includes: ff. 1, 75, 191 Pye and Cruikshanks; Messrs, Amsterdam merchants: Letters to Lord Holdernesse: 1751, 1757.ff. 3, 7 Mainz, in Germany. Archbishop Electo...
Vol. CLXI. 1752-1754. India: Papers rel. to negotiations betw. the French and English Cos.: 1753, 1754. Louis XV of France: Papers of Lord Holdernesse conc. Anglo-French relations: 1749-1761. includes: f. 7 Robert Orme, historian of British India: Correspondence with Lord Holdernesse: 1754-1...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vols. CLXI, CLXII (ff. 359, 278). Papers relating to the negotiations for a projected treaty of neutrality between the English and French East India Companies; 1752-1754. A list of the papers is in Vol. CLXI, f. 1. Engl. and French.
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India: Papers of Lord Holdernesse rel. to: 1753-1761.
Vol. CLXII. 1752-1754. India: Papers rel. to negotiations betw. the French and English Cos.: 1753, 1754. Louis XV of France: Papers of Lord Holdernesse conc. Anglo-French relations: 1749-1761. includes: ff. 8, 10 (transl) Charles Pierre Gaston François de Lévis, Duc de Mirepoix: Correspon...