Political and Diplomatic Tracts 78235-78254. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVIII-LXXXVII. These comprise items that show clear evidence of Browne’s ownership (78233-78241) or that accrued (78256-78260), or seem likely to have accrued (78242-78255, 78261, 78262), to him at various stages of his official career. Nineteen volumes.
Privy Council Papers 78210-78219. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business; 1661-1667. Browne obtained a clerkship of the Council on 27 Jan. 1641 but took his place only at the Restoration. See Add. MSS 78255-78262 below for confiscated royalist papers and records of Council of State business, which came into the custody of Browne allegedly in his capacity as Clerk. Ten volumes.
Accounts and Legal Papers 78225-78227. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVIII-LX. Household accounts of Browne, with personal papers and legal documents; 1641-1683, n.d. Partly French. Three volumes.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XX, XXI. Horoscopes by John Wells, mathematician and Treasurer of the Stores at Deptford, nephew of Christopher Browne of his uncle Christopher and cousin Richard, later Sir Richard Browne, Bart.; circa 1611 and 2 Sept. 1611. Latin. Partly autograph. The main watermark (of posts, similar to Heawood, Watermarks, no. 3499) is the same in both tracts, indicating that they were executed at about the same time. Wells matriculated. Oxford (St. Alban’s Hall) 15 June 1632, ...
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 ...