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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 78168-78693 Digitised Content No Level [33] SubFonds

1. Add MS 78168-78271

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Title:
GONSON AND BROWNE 78168-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-CIV. Papers which accrued to the Evelyn archive as the family papers of Mary, wife of John Evelyn (1620-1706) and only surviving child of Sir Richard Browne, Bart (1605-1683). They consist of papers (78168-78171) which descended to Browne through his mother Thomasine (d. 1638) from her father Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577) and grandfather William Gonson (d. 1545), both of whom had been in turn Treasurers of the Navy; further pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1660
Extent:
109 items

2. Add MS 78272-78273

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Title:
George Evelyn I (1526-1603)
Scope & Content:
George Evelyn, grandfather of the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1579-1625.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1526-1603
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 78274-78281

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Title:
Richard Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1640)
Scope & Content:
Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1613-1640.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1642]
Extent:
8 items

4. Add MS 78282-78290

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Title:
John Stansfield 78282-78290. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXV-CXXIII. Papers of John Stansfield, merchant of the Cliffe, near Lewes, and maternal grandfather of the diarist; 1581-1637. Stansfield `exported through Newhaven corn, iron, ordnance and timber, principally to London and ports in northern France and the Netherlands, and imported groceries, draperies . . . salt, wine, fruit, sugar and coal, much of which was then distributed from Lewes across the weald and downland, and to Brighton’ (Col...
Scope & Content:
John Stansfield, merchant, of Lewes, county Sussex: Correspondence and papers: 1581-1637.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1637
Extent:
9 items

5. Add MS 78291-78295

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Title:
George Evelyn II (1617-1699), and Mary Evelyn (Lady Wyche)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1617-1699
Extent:
5 items

6. Add MS 78296-78297

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Title:
William and Jane Glanville; William Glanville junior
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1649-1699]
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 78298-78429

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Title:
JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706) 78298-78429. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CXXXI- CCLXII. Correspondence and papers of John Evelyn; 1635-1706, with a few earlier and later items. Evelyn, second son of Richard Evelyn of Wotton, was educated at Lewes and Balliol College Oxford, travelled extensively in Europe in the 1640s, married Mary Browne, daughter of the English Resident in Paris in 1647, and settled at her ancestral home, Sayes Court in Deptford (where he created a celebrated garden) from 1652 until...
Scope & Content:
John Evelyn, diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1635-1706.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1635-1706
Extent:
161 items

8. Add MS 78430-78439

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Title:
Mary Evelyn (wife of the diarist)
Scope & Content:
Mary Evelyn, wife of John Evelyn, the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1648-1708.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1647-1708]
Extent:
10 items

9. Add MS 78440-78441

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Title:
Mary Evelyn (daughter of the diarist)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1675-1685]
Extent:
2 items

10. Add MS 78442-78461

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Title:
John Evelyn junior
Scope & Content:
John Evelyn, son of John Evelyn the diarist: Correspondence and papers: circa 1664-1699.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1661-1726]
Extent:
20 items