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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40696-40701
Title:: OXENDEN PAPERS. Vols. I-VI. Original correspondence of Sir G. Oxenden. Vol. I has a number of copies of slightly earlier documents as enclosures in the letters, and Vol. VI includes numerous letters in Portuguese and a quantity of bills of lading for goods sent from London to India. Oxenden's letters are all drafts or copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Portuguese
Date Range:: [1656-1669]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40703-40704
Title:: OXENDEN PAPERS. Vols. VIII, IX. Letter-books of the E. India Co.'s Council at Surat, containing copies of letters sent out from Surat, 1662-64. Each volume is preceded by an index of addressees. In the beginning of Vol. VIII two letters of April 1664 "from aboard ye Richard & Martha," are added, one (f. 3) to James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough, 25 Apr., the other (f. 4 b) to Matthew Andrews. Two letters to the Company in England, dated 28 Jan. 1661 and 4 Apr. 1664, in Vol. IX, ff. 21, 41...
Scope & Content:: Bindings INDIAN: Red leather, some with blind stamps: late 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1661-1664
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40705-40707
Title:: OXENDEN PAPERS. Vols. XXII. Letter-books of Sir G. Oxenden, containing copies of letters sent out by him from Surat arranged in a very rough chronological order. Vols. X, XII have indexes of recipients of letters. Many of the letters provide the other side of the correspondence found in the rest of the collection. Vol. XI is composed of two letter-books:-(a) March 1663-29 Apr. 1665. f. 1; (b) 25 Nov. 1664-6 Apr. 1665. f. 71. A note in Vol. XII, f. 2, states that it was copied by Henry Oxende...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1665
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40708-40713
Title:: OXENDEN PAPERS. Vols. XIII-XVIII. Letterbooks of Sir George Oxenden, containing copies of letters received by him from India (Vols. XIII-XV) and England (Vols. XVI- XVIII). The originals of some of these letters are in Add. MSS. 40696-40701. In Vol. XVI, f. 13 b, is a copy of a letter from Samuel Butler, 19 Mar. 166.2/3, giving an account of the circumstances of the composition of his Hudibras, printed and discussed by R. Quintana, loc. cit., pp. 1-11, and in Vol. XVIII, ff. 1, 28 b, 53 b, 6...
Scope & Content:: Bindings INDIAN: Red leather, some with blind stamps: late 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Portuguese
Date Range:: [1662-1667]
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40721/1-3
Title:: 40721. Vol. II (ff. 123).
Scope & Content:: Histories of Mackenzie: by Rev. J. MacRa and others.: 19th cent.: Copies. Genealogies: Genealogical histories of the Clan Mackenzie Copies,: 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-49 b Reverend John MacRa, d 1704 of Dingwall: Genealogical-historical account of the Mackenzies.: 18th-19th centt.: Copy.f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1849-1878]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40771-40776
Title:: VERNON PAPERS. Vols. I-VI. Correspondence of James Vernon (d. 1727), Secretary of State (1697-1702), and previously Private Secretary to Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury (1688 and 1694), and Secretary to the Lords Justices (1694-1697). His letters to the Duke of Shrewsbury were published by G. P. R. James, Letters illustrative of the Reign of William III, 3 vols., 1841. Among his other correspondents the chief are:-the King, William Blathwayt, Secretary-at-War, Matthew Prior, Secretary of ...
Scope & Content:: Vernon family: Papers and deeds of: 1688-1754. Secretaries of State: Correspondence of J. Vernon as Sec. of State: 1697-1702.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1688-1754
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40777-40778
Title:: VERNON PAPERS. Vols. VII, VIII (ff. 269, 35). Letter-books of James Vernon as Secretary to the Lords Justices; 18 May 1695-11 Oct. 1697, 12 Oct.-4 Dec. 1697. The contents consist chiefly of covering letters and similar communications addressed to the Admiralty, Treasury, Irish Lords Justices, etc., or to individual officials. Bound up with Vol. VIII is a miscellaneous collection (ff. 31-35) of Royal warrants and other instruments, apparently compiled as a formulary, 1679-1685.
Scope & Content:: Privy Council, The: Letter-books and minutes of the Lords Justices: 1695-1697. William III of England: Letterbooks, etc., of the Lords Justices: 1695-1697.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1695-1697
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40779-40780
Title:: VERNON PAPERS. Vols. IX, X (ff. 170, 173). Minutes of the Proceedings of the Lords Justices, kept by James Vernon as Secretary; 11 May-6 Oct. 1696, 1 May-12 Nov. 1697. The amplified and final version of the Minutes is preserved below in Add. MS. 40782.
Scope & Content:: James Vernon, the elder; Secretary of State: Minutes of the Lords Justices and Privy Council kept by: 1696-1700. Privy Council, The: Letter-books and minutes of the Lords Justices: 1695-1697. William III of England: Letterbooks, etc., of the Lords Justices: 1695-1697.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1696-1697
Extent:: 2 items

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