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EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. VIII. (ff. 311). 1 July, 1612-24 March, 1612 [3]. Edmondes's drafts are very numerous in this volume, and are addressed to the King and to Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester. They give a very particular account of the dissensions in the French Court. James I. took great intere...
State papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, 1613-1614
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Volume 9 of the Edmondes Papers (Stowe MS 166-177). State papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat, during his embassy to France (1610-1617). The correspondence is principally concerned with the negotiations for the marriage of Prince Charles with the Princess Christi...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. X. (ff. 389). 16 July, 1614-24 Mar. 1615 [6]. The volume opens with the instructions of James I. to Edmondes on his return to France. The latter continues to give full details of the dissensions in the French Court, which lasted through 1614 and 1615 and resulted in the Con...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. Xl. (ff. 296). 25 March, 1616-28 Jan. 1632 [3]. During Edmondes's absence at the Loudun Conference, which resulted in a treaty signed 5 May, 1616, his secretary, Woodford, reported the state of affairs at the French Court. In September of the same year Edmondes requested Ja...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. XII. (ff. 237). Copies of treaties and miscellaneous papers relating for the most part to the correspondence contained in the preceding volumes; 1470-1663. The contents are :- 1. Treaties between France and the Swiss; 1470-1579. Lat. and Fr. ff. i-30. 2. Treaty of peace...
COLLECION Of Miscellaneous papers relating to state affairs and ecclesiastical, local and other matters in the 17th century; followed by poetical pieces, mostly of an amatory character, but of which a few are on political subjects. The most important are:- 1. Summary of events in the reign of ...
TRANSCRIPTS of State Papers; 1631-1727. 1. Arthur Hopton, English Agent at Madrid, to [Dudley Carleton] Viscount Dorchester, with a relation of the discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscans, etc.; Madrid, 22 Aug. 1631. f. 3. 2. " A just character of the Lord Major and the whole Court of Ald...
LETTERS of Sir William Temple, Bart., written during his embassy at Brussels in 1665-1666, translated into French in 1730 by James Newsham, being the first sixteen letters (excepting those written originally in French) in Swift's edition of Sir W. Temple's Correspondence, 1700. The last letter i...
ORIGINAL LETTERS chiefly on Scottish affairs, many of which are unaddressed, but were probably written to John Maitland, 2nd Earl and (1672) Duke of Lauderdale, Secretary of State for Scotland; 1665-1720. 1. [Denzil Holles, 1st Baron] Holles, recommending a Scottish merchant, who "hath bene il...
ESSEX PAPERS: Royal warrants, official and private letters and other papers addressed to Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex, while Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, followed by a register of his own letters; 1672-1677. Eighteen volumes. Paper. Folio. The correspondence chiefly relates to appointments to offices in Ireland, grants of lands under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, pensions, the farming of the revenues, the irregularities in the payment of the forces in Ireland, the disabilities of th...
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Trade: Letters and papers relating to trade in Ireland: 1672-1679. Roman Catholics: Letters relating to, in Ireland: 1672-1677. Revenue: Papers relating to the revenue in Ireland, during the Lord Lieutenancy of Lord Essex: 1672-1677. Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount (1669) and 1st Earl (1674) of R...
