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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 72850-72908 Place Ireland, Europe Level [37] SubSeries

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Add MS 72900-72902

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Add MS 72900-72902
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

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