Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4150-4154
Title:: 'LES LETTRES, memoires, actes, instructions, contractz faicts au Traitté de Mariage d'entre Madame Henriette Marie, Soeur du Roy, et Charles premier, Roy de la Grande Bretagne'; 1624, 1625. Five volumes. Vols. I, III-V are consecutive and contain the negotiations of Tannequy le Veneur, Comte de Tillières, Antoine Coeffier Ruzé, Marquis d'Effiat, successive French Ambassadors to England, and others, whereas Vol. II concerns the 'Suitte du marriage d'Angleterre avec L'Ambassade de Mons' [Jean ...
Scope & Content:: Charles I of England: Letters and state papers rel. to his marriage with Henrietta Maria: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies. Louis XIII of France: Papers rel. to the marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, his daughter: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4155-4159
Title:: THURLOE PAPERS. First Series. Collection of state letters and papers relating to events at home and abroad chiefly in the time of the Commonwealth. Most of the documents formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They afterwards came into the hands of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (1737), and were 'communicated' by him to Birch, according to the Preface to ...
Scope & Content:: John Thurloe, Secretary of State: Correspondence of and state papers collected by: 1577-1668.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1577-1692
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4160-4164
Title:: COLLECTION OF TRANSCRIPTS, chiefly in the handwriting of Birch, of State Papers and letters, from private and public libraries, together with a few original papers; 1425-1728. Five volumes. Quarto. The names of the writers of the original papers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Included among these papers are:-
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1425-1728
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4168-4172
Title:: ROE LETTER-BOOKS Letter-books of Sir Thomas Roe, containing copies of his correspondence and papers during his negotiations as Ambassador- Extraordinary to Hamburg, and, afterwards, to Regensburg and Vienna, for the settlement of a general peace, with the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, France, Sweden and Denmark; 1638-1642. English, French, Italian and Latin. Five volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Sir Thomas Roe, diplomatist: Letter-books: 1638-1642. Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Negotiations of Sir T. Roe with: 1638-1642.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1638-1642
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4173-4175
Title:: LETTERS OF JOHN CHAMBERLAIN to Sir Dudley Carleton and others; 1598-1625. Copied by Birch from the originals then in the State Paper Office. Three volumes. Most, if not all, of the letters, from 1603, were printed from Birch's transcripts in The Court and Times of James I, 2 vols., 1849, and The Court and Times of Charles I, 2 vols., 1849. The earlier letters (Vol. I, ff. 63-177) were edited for the Camden Society, Old Ser., vol. 79, 1861, by Sarah Williams. At the beginning of Add. MS. 4173...
Scope & Content:: John Chamberlain, d 1627 letter-writer: Correspondence with Sir D. Carleton: 1598-1625.: Copies. Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester: Correspondence with J. Chamberlain: 1598-1625.: Copies. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Par...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4176-4178
Title:: 'HISTORICAL LETTERS written in the Reigns of James I and Charles I ... now first publish'd from the Originals in the British Museum, [State] Paper Office, and private collections. By Thomas Birch, D.D.'. Birch's intention to publish (on the verso of the above title-page is an estimate of the cost, etc.) was never carried out but, with the omission of the two letters of an earlier date (Vol. I, ff. 17, 18) and with the addition of the letters of J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton (see Add. MSS...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4196-4197
Title:: COMMONWEALTH WARRANTS Warrants and orders from the various Commissioners, members of councils and committees of the Parliament, for payments of pensions, compensation for injuries in the war, soldiers' pay and stores, the salaries of the Protector's household, and officers of government, and for miscellaneous services to the Commonwealth. Two volumes. Among the signatures are those of William Sydenham, Slingsby Bethell, Arthur Annesley, Sir Thomas Widdrington, Carew Ralegh, Sir William Wall...
Scope & Content:: John Blackwell, Treasurer at war: Warrants for payments to: 1658-1660.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1656-1660
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4215 A-B
Title:: Papers of Dr. Patrick Forbes. Cf'. also Add. MSS. 4126, 4133-4146, 4248, 4249, 35833.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1700-1799]
Extent:: 2 items

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