STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
Vol. II. (ff. 218). 10 March, 1713-14 Jan. 1744. 1. Joseph Addison, Secretary to the Lords Justices, to J. Robethon; St. James', 4, 11 Sept. 1714. Copies. ff. 174, 176. 2. J[acob] Banckes [Jun., of Milton Abbas, co. Dorset], to Sir Will. Wyndham, 3rd Bart., M.P. for Minehead; 10 Aug. 1715. f...
CORRESPONDENCE and papers, political and private, of Major Richard Phelps, Secretary to the Embassy at Turin, and Under- Secretary of State for the Northern Department; 17 Febr. 1744/5- 16 Febr. 1768. Prefixed are originals and copies of state despatches supplied for his use on entering office, 22 June, 1725-26 Sept. 1757. Phelps's official letters are rough drafts made for the Secretary of State, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who has in many instances added to, or even rewritten, the ...
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Richard Phelps, Under-Secretary for Northern Department: Political correspondence and papers: 1725-1768.
PIIELPS PAPENS. Vol. 11. (ff. 219). 28 Dec. 1758-C-] Dec. 1763. 1. Original letters to R. Phelps front (a) R[ichard] Bagot, [4th son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Bart., Secretary to the embassy at Venice] ; Venice, 7 Dec. 1762. f. 84; - (b) W[illiam] Bagot, [afterw. lst Baron baagot] , Siena, 12, ...
PHELPS PAPERS. Vol. V. (ff. 224). 7 Dec. 1764--29 March, 1765. 1. Letters to R. Phelps from (a) D. A. S. Cosby; Copenhagen, 26 March, 1765. f. 215;-(b) Sir J. Goodricke; Stockholm, 2 Febr. 1765. f. 144;-(c) W. Gordon.; Ratisbon, 14 Jan., 14 March, 1765. ff. 120, 204;-(d) Sir George Macartney, ...
1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Latin and English. f 49. Paper; ff. 79. xviith c...
" DE LIBERA ELECTIONE Regni Bohæmici et de Jure Imperatoris Ferdinandi ad idem Regnum, 1619 ": a Latin treatise in answer to a discourse asserting the right of the Elector Palatine to the crown of Bohemia, the writer declaring the crown not to be elective, and defending the claim of Ferdinand. T...
" THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...
" DOMINIUM maris Britannici. . . . per D. Ioannem de Burgo," etc.: a Latin version of the treatise as above, No. 286, with copious marginal references, and a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 24. xviith cent. Small Folio. Political Tracts: "The Soveraignty of the Seas of England ": 17th cent....