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31. Add MS 4432-4448

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Title:
ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS Collections relating to the Royal Society (incorporated in 1662) made by Thomas Birch while Secretary of the Society (1752-1765), consisting of letters, articles or communications sent for consideration, many of which were subsequently printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, draft minutes, etc. 1660-1765. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Folio. The chief contents are as follows:-
Scope & Content:
Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1660-1765
Extent:
17 items

32. Add MS 4324 A-B

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Title:
BIRCH-YORKE LETTERS (Vols. I,II) Letters of Thomas Birch, many of them unaddressed, but some written to Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 1764, and to other members of the Yorke family. Drafts. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 240, 228. Quarto. 1748-1765.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748-1765
Extent:
2 items

33. Add MS 4394-4396

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PELL PAPERS (2nd Series) Mathematical and philosophical collections of Dr. John Pell, mathematician (d. 1685) chiefly in the hand of Walter Warner, mathematician (d. 1643). For other series of Pell Papers see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4397-4404 and 4407-443 1. Three volumes (Vol. II, III were originally Add. MSS. 4408, 4409). Paper. Folio. XVII cent.
Scope & Content:
Walter Warner, d 1643 mathematician: Mathematical and philosophical papers: 1627-1632, n.d.: Mainly autogr. John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Mathematical and scientific collections: 1617-1681, n.d.: Mainly autogr. Mathematics: Mathematical collections of J. Pell: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
3 items

34. Add MS 4150-4154

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'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

35. Add MS 4168-4172

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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

36. Add MS 4155-4159

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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

37. Add MS 4133-4146

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Title:
FORBES PAPERS. Vols. II-XV. 4133-4146. Collections of Dr. Patrick Forbes, consisting of lists, copies, etc., of state papers in the 'Paper Office', the British Museum, and other public and private libraries, used or intended for use, in his Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols., London, 1740, 1741. Cf. Add. MSS. 4126, 4215 A, B, 4248, 4249, 35833. Fourteen volumes. Various sizes.
Scope & Content:
Patrick Forbes, d 1743 (?) MD; Scottish historian: Collections for his 'A full view of ... the reign of Q. Elizabeth': 1740, 1741. Elizabeth I of England: Historical collections of P. Forbes rel. to her reign: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1558-1687]
Extent:
14 items

38. Add MS 4109-4124

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Title:
ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Ro...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr. Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1750-1751
Extent:
16 items

39. Add MS 4173-4175

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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