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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37932-37933
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XCI., XCII. (ff. 297, 283). Translation by W. Windham of Jacques Auguste de Thou's Historiarum sui temporis libri cxxv (ed. 1609), to the middle of bk. VI., covering 1543-1550. Begun in 1784, and left incomplete in 1794. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1784-1794
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37983-37984
Title:: BLATHWAYT CORRESPONDENCE. Vols. V., VI. (ff. 263, 269). Letters of Bevil Skelton, Envoy to the Hanse Towns, to the same; 20 Dec. 1681, N.S.-17 July 1685, N.S. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:: Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway; Secretary of State 1623: Correspondence, as Secretary of State: 1680-1683.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1681-1685
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37986-37987
Title:: BLATHWAYT CORRESPONENCE. Vols. VIII., IX. (ff. 329, 326). Letters of Edmund Poley, Envoy at Berlin, Frankfort, Ratisbon, etc., to the same; 8 Feb. 1681, O.S.- 10 May 1683, O.S. Two volumes. Prefixed to Vol. I. (ff. 1-5) are abstracts of the treaties between England and the States General, 1678, and between the Empire and France, 1679. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the proceedings of the conference at Frankfort.
Scope & Content:: Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway; Secretary of State 1623: Correspondence, as Secretary of State: 1680-1683.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1681-1683
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38028-38035
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS of state-letters and papers relating to the history of France, principally in its internal affairs, during the 16th and 17th centuries. Eight volumes. Paper. Folio. Formerly belonged to Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, Président de la seconde chambre des enquetes du Parlement de Paris (d. 1745), whose arms are on the covers. Each volume (except the last) has a list of contents at the beginning. Phillipps MSS. (Vols. I.-III.) 3156, (Vol. IV.) 3157, (Vol. V.) 3158 and (Vols. VI.-VIII.) 31...
Scope & Content:: France General: Transcripts of state papers: 16th-17th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1528-1658]
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38114-38115
Title:: HUTH BEQUEST. Vols. I, II. Bible, in Latin; Vulgate version. Preceded by Jerome's Epistle to Paulinus ("Frater Ambrosius") and preface to the Pentateueh ("Desiderii mei"). The arrangement of books is regular, except that Ezra (1 Esdras) and Nehemiah are followed by the apocryphal 1 Esdras (here entitled 2 Esdras), and that Acts comes between the Pauline and Catholic ("canoniales") Epistles. In two volumes, vol. i ending with the Psalms. All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces, excep...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38140-38141
Title:: HERALDIC COLLECTIONS of Sir William Dugdale, Norroy (1660) and Garter King of Arms (1677, d. 1686); including many original letters, warrants, and other documents, but consisting mainly of drafts and copies in his autograph. Paper. Two volumes. Folio. With table of contents at the end of each volume, in the hand of his son Sir John Dugdale (cf. Add. MS. 29561, f. 317), Norroy 1686, d. 1700, who has also prefixed titles to many of the separate pieces. Belonged successively to Sir George Nayle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1606-1685
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38147-38152
Title:: LETTERS AND PAPERS connected with the Vice- Admiralty of Munster, an office held successively by Sir Robert Southwell (1677-1701), Edward Southwell (1701-1730), and Edward Southwell junior (1733-1749). The letters are chiefly from Capt. James Waller, Deputy Vice-Admiral for the Port of Kinsale, and date from 1692 until his retirement in 1699. Waller also held office under the Ordnance Board and the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded, and constant reference is made to his transactions with th...
Scope & Content:: Edward Southwell: Correspondence as Vice-Admiral of Munster: 1692-1728. Navy; England: Letters and papers rel. to the Vice-Admiralty of Munster: 1677-1749. Province of Munster: Papers conc. the Vice-Admiralty of: 1677-1749. Kinsale, Cork: Letters and papers from deputies at, to the Vice-Admir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1677-1749
Extent:: 6 items

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