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1. Add MS 72852-72855

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Add MS 72852-72855
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. III-VI. Correspondence between the Petty and Southwell families, consisting chiefly of letters from Petty to Sir Robert Southwell, with many related papers and enclosures, relating particularly to Petty's shipping experiments and Irish affairs; 1661-1698. Petty's letters are originals, endorsed by Southwell, and Southwell's are drafts and copies. A few items such as medical notes by Southwell (72852, ff. 102-105), which have no connection with Petty, are also included, fu...
Scope & Content:
Sir William Petty, political economist: Correspondence, etc., with Southwell family of Sir William Petty: 1661-1687.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1698
Extent:
4 items

2. Add MS 72858-72864

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Add MS 72858-72864
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. IX-XV. Letterbooks of Petty and his agents; 1671-1686. These were part of a sequence of volumes once in the collection of William Burton Conyngham, grandson of Mary, wife of Petty's eldest son Charles (d. 1696) by her second marriage. On his death in 1796 they were bought first by the collector Austin Cooper of Dublin (1759-1830), and then by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1831, becoming first Phillipps MS 6486, and then 14332-14349 (see Slatter, 'Report', I, p. 113). They were ...
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Letterbooks rel. to Sir W. Petty's Irish estates: 1671-1700.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1671-1686
Extent:
7 items

3. Add MS 72868-72873

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XIX-XXIV. 'Down Survey' of various baronies in Ireland, consisting of maps and terriers commissioned from Petty by the Cromwellian government as a preliminary to the transfer of lands confiscated from Irish Catholics after the rising of 1641 to Protestant soldiers and 'adventurers' (or government investors); 1655-1659. Scales are variable, chosen from a range of multiples to fit standard sizes of paper. 'Down survey' was the traditional land surveyor's term for a survey i...
Scope & Content:
Surveys and Rentals: Maps and Plans: Sir William Petty, political economist: Ireland 'Down Survey': Oliver Cromwell of England: Maps and schedules of the `Down Survey' of Ireland surveyed by Sir William Petty: 1655-1659.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1655-1659
Extent:
6 items

4. Add MS 72875 A-BB

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Add MS 72875 A-BB
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVI A-BB. Manuscript maps by a single unidentified cartographer, of Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio (London, 1685), the first printed atlas of Ireland, based on the Down Survey for those areas which it covered, and on earlier surveys of western areas, chiefly the Strafford survey of 1636-1640; [late 1650s-early 1660s]. There are no scale bars, but the scales are reduced from those of the Down Survey maps as follows: county maps 2 Irish miles to the inch [1:161,240]; province...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Ireland: Sir William Petty, political economist: MS maps for the Hiberniae Delineatio by Sir William Petty: late 1650s-early 1660s.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Late 1650s-Early 1660s]
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 72876 A-DD

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Add MS 72876 A-DD
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVII. 'Census' of Ireland
Scope & Content:
In ink-ruled columns, under the headings (by barony in the case of counties): 'Parishes', 'Places/Townlands', 'Number of People', 'Tituladoes Names', 'English (and Scots)', 'Irish'. In at least two different clerical hands, with the county totals on the first leaves apparently in Petty's hand,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1659?]
Extent:

30 volumes

6. Add MS 72883-72884

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Add MS 72883-72884
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XXXIV, XXXV. Papers relating to Ireland, arranged according to the list under the heading 'About Ireland' in Petty's 'Catalogus Scriptorum' of 1686 (printed in Petty Papers, II, pp. 264-266); 1685-1686. Many of them derive from Petty's attempts to respond to two pamphlets concerning the Irish land settlement: 'Queries', apparently by David Fitzgerald and 'A Narrative of the Sale and Settlement of Ireland'; see also Petty-Southwell Correspondence, pp. 147-150. Former Bowoo...
Scope & Content:
Sir William Petty, political economist: Essays and treatises rel. to Ireland by Sir William Petty: 1655-1687: Partly autogr. Roman Catholics: Papers of Sir W. Petty rel. the Down Survey and Irish land settlement: 1653-1687. James II of England: Proposals of Sir W. Petty for political, social a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1685-1686
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 72887-72889

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XXXVIII-XL. Papers by Petty on issues of religion in England and Ireland; 1669-1687, but chiefly of temp. James II. See also 'The Spirituall Estate of W.P.', of which there are copies in H.M.C. 15th Report, App. 2 (Hodgkin MSS), p. 180 (originally in the possession of Samuel Pepys), Sloane MS 2903, ff. 18v-19, and McGill University Library, Osler MS 7613. Some of Petty's verse in Add. 72899 is related to his prose writings on religion; see also Add. 72891, ff. 252-253, fo...
Scope & Content:
Sir William Petty, political economist: Essays and notes rel. to matters of religion and philosophy by Sir William Petty: circa 1645-1687. Religion: Theology: Essays and notes by Sir W. Petty on matters of religion and theology, esp. rel. to Ireland: 1678-1687, n.d.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1669-1687
Extent:
3 items

8. Add MS 72894-72895

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Add MS 72894-72895
Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XLV, XLVI. Correspondence and papers concerning Petty's 'double bottom' boat experiments and shipping generally; 1661-1684, n.d. Copies, early 19th cent. (watermarks 1802, 1804), made by Henry Schultes for the 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne, who had an interest in ship-building and sailing (see Slatter, 'Report', I, p. 200), of originals once in Petty's archive. Shortly after the copies were made, they appear to have been sold, randomly divided into two groups, and are now Bod...
Scope & Content:
Ships and Shipping: Sir William Petty, political economist: Reports and correspondence rel. to Sir W. Petty's double-bottomed boat and other shipping matters: circa 1661-1685: Partly copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1661-1684
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 72900-72902

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Title:
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. LI-LIII. Papers, chiefly schedules of lands, petitions, court orders, reports and accounts, with some notes and letters of Petty, his widow and son Henry, relating to Petty's estates in the baronies of Glanerought, Iveragh and Dunkerron, co. Kerry, particularly concerning the disputed level of quit rents payable to the Crown after the Restoration; [1663?]-1728. Partly autograph; several with extensive 20th cent notes by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne. Although Petty had a ...
Scope & Content:
Robert Marshall, of Dublin: Legal papers rel. to the lands in Kerry assigned to R. Marshall and Sir W. Petty by Robert Marshall: [1663?]-1687. Ireland: Sir William Petty, political economist: County of Kerry: Disputes rel. to quit rents of Sir W. Petty's estates: [1663?]-1728: Partly copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1663?]-1728
Extent:
3 items

10. Add MS 72903-72904

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Add MS 72903-72904
Title:
Petty Papers. Vols. liv, lv. Papers concerning the estates in Kerry after Petty's death; 1705-1852. See also the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, Glanerought and the Petty-Fitzmaurices (Oxford, 1937). Formerly Bowood Boxes 14 and 15. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1705-1852
Extent:
2 items