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11. Add MS 78255-78262

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Title:
Papers of the Council of State. 78255-78262. EVELYN PAPERS. These papers, consisting partly of confiscated royalist papers and partly of records of Council of State business, apparently came into custody of Sir Richard Browne at the Restoration in his capacity as Clerk of the Privy Council. They must represent the papers Pepys referred to in 1681, when he asked Evelyn about ‘Sir Richard Browne’s share of the letters of State found among the Council-papers at the King’s coming-in’; Evelyn ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1646-1653]
Extent:
8 items

12. Add MS 78291-78294

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Title:
George Evelyn (1617-1699) 78291-78294. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV-CXXVII. Papers of George Evelyn, elder brother of the diarist; 1641-1699. These papers, in contrast to those of his father and younger brother, are fragmentary and miscellaneous. He inherited Wotton in succession to his father and lived from 1640 till 1699. He married twice: Mary, daughter of Daniel Caldwell (d. 1644) and Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Offley and widow of Sir John Cotton of Eltham (d. 1664). Both his sons, G...
Scope & Content:
George Evelyn, brother of John Evelyn: Correspondence and papers: 1641-1699.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1699
Extent:
4 items

13. Add MS 78298-78322

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Title:
: Letterbooks and Correspondence
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1635-1706]
Extent:
25 items

14. Add MS 78323-78326

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Title:
Diary Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1620-1737]
Extent:
4 items

15. Add MS 78327-78333

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Title:
Commonplace Collections 78327-78333. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLX-CLXVI. Commonplace books or adversaria of John Evelyn; [1649-1703?]. Mostly autograph, but begun by Richard Hoare, the professional scribe whom Evelyn brought from England to Paris with him in 1649 to help `reduce my studies into a method’ (to Sir Richard Browne, 14 June 1649; Add. MS 78221), and continued by Evelyn himself after Hoare had left his service. Evelyn in Memoires for my Grandson, p. 44, recommends the making of com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1649-1703?]
Extent:
7 items

16. Add MS 78334-78352

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Title:
Manuscripts relating to Virtuoso Projects
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1560-1799]
Extent:
20 items

17. Add MS 78353-78359

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Title:
Verse and Drama
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1600-1706]
Extent:
7 items

18. Add MS 78360-78392

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Title:
Devotional Manuscripts 78360-78392. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CCXXV. These are the most extensive category in the archive. They consist of notes and commentaries on the Bible, sermon notes, essays on religious subjects, but chiefly of private devotional works and meditations. Many of them were written or adapted for, or otherwise associated with Margaret Blagge (1652-1678), the maid of honour at the Restoration court, with whom Evelyn made a pact of spiritual friendship in October 1672...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1600-1740]
Extent:
40 items

19. Add MS 78393-78401

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Title:
Papers relating to Public Offices and Affairs 78393-78401. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVI-CCXXXIV. Papers of Evelyn relating to public offices and public affairs; 1660-1701. Evelyn was actively involved in the Restoration of Charles II and afterwards sought public office. He hinted at the possibility of being appointed Historiographer Royal and hoped for the reversion of his father-in-law’s post of Clerk of the Council, but did not succeed in either. However Charles II used him as a governme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1701
Extent:
9 items

20. Add MS 78402-78413

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Title:
Inventories, Accounts and Wills
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1600-1709]
Extent:
14 items