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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 78168-78693 Digitised Content No Level [37] SubSeries

1. Add MS 78174-78175

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. VII, VIII. Accounts of the Merchant Adventurers trading to Barbary; 1585-1589. Fair copies, partly imperfect. Letters patent were issued on 5 July 1585 (PRO, C66/1266/1-3) for the charter of the Barbary Company, which was to run for twelve years. Leicester was a leading member, along with his secretary (later Sir) Arthur Attye, Richard Staper, a Levant merchant, and Alexander Avenon, who acted as agent in London. Henry Roberts, agent in Morocco, returned from Marrak...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585-1589
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 78176-78177

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. IX, X. Inventories of goods in Leicester’s houses; circa 1579-1582. Included are lists of the contents of Leicester House, in London, Kenilworth Castle, co. Warwick, Wanstead, co. Essex, Grafton Court, co. Northants., and Stoke Newington, co. Middx. Some eight separate inventories of Leicester’s goods, dated between 18 July 1580 and 21 Nov. 1590, are listed among the papers of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat in H.M.C., 58th Report, V, 1980, pp. 202-224. Another, of f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1579-1582
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 78179-78184

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XII-XVII. Papers of Richard Browne as Clerk of the Green Cloth (1588) and Clerk Comptroller of the Household (1596) to Elizabeth I; etc.; circa 1552-1601, n.d. Six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Sir Richard Browne, MP: Papers as Clerk of the Green Cloth and Comptroller of the Household: circa 1552-1601, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1552-1601
Extent:
6 items

4. Add MS 78194-78195

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Add MS 78194-78195
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXVII, XXVIII. Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I and II; 1645-1667. Mostly autograph. Partly drafts and copies. Partly cipher, deciphered in some cases. Consisting of retained draft and copy letters from Browne to Nicholas (some jointly to Lord Digby), Sept 1641-June 1644; followed by twenty-seven letters from Nicholas dated mostly from Caen, [?12/] 22 Dec. 1645-1 June 1648, along with the address-panel o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1645-1667
Extent:
2 items

5. Add MS 78197-78200

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXX-XXXIII. General correspondence of Browne, chiefly in his capacity as English Agent and Resident in France; 1641-1678, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The first few items are retained copies of letters written by Browne while a student at Oxford. One series of newsletters written from London, 1646-1658, is subscribed only with the Greek letter Φ. Browne’s draft replies comprise some forty items. Further letters to Browne, remove...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1678
Extent:
4 items

6. Add MS 78201-78203

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXXIV-XXXVI. Diplomatic papers of Sir Richard Browne; 1625-1637, n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The material derives from Browne’s early period in the diplomatic service. On the recommendation of Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester and Secretary of State, he went as secretary to Sir Isaac Wake, English ambassador (Oct. 1628-circa March 1631) to Savoy and subsequently (circa March 1631-May 1632) to France; see letters of Peter Turner to C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1637
Extent:
3 items

7. Add MS 78207-78209

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Add MS 78207-78209
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XL-XLII. Papers, partly legal, relating to English shipping and mercantile affairs in France; 1640-1654. In return for a royal commission, privateers bringing their prizes into French ports were required to pay dues to Charles II and the Duke of York. Sir Richard Browne was one of those employed to supervise the sales and collect the proceeds; ‘from the close of 1652 to [spring 1656] Browne was actively engaged in Brittany, at Brest and Nantes, endeavouring to collect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1654
Extent:
3 items

8. Add MS 78210-78214

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Minutes of meetings of the Privy Council; 1661-1667. The present rough notes, copied out collaboratively by Browne and his fellow clerks Sir Edward Walker and Sir John Nicholas, etc., relate to proceedings over fifteen complete months between Feb 1661 and Dec. 1667 (78210-78214), followed by a further fifty sporadic entries dating from July to Oct. 1660 and Feb. 1661 to Aug. 1670 (78215-78217). Complementary sets of minutes are preserved in Add. MS 37820 (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1661-1667
Extent:
5 items

9. Add MS 78215-78217

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLVIII-L. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business, including draft minutes, petitions, reports, orders and supporting documents; 1614-1659>, 25 June 1660-30 Sept. 1678. Partly drafts, copies and extracts. The earliest items (78215, ff. 1-14) are copies or extracts in the hand of John Wolley the younger, Keeper of the Council Records. These are followed by further minutes, 1660-1670, partly in drafts by Browne, with orders, petitions and pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614-1678
Extent:
3 items

10. Add MS 78218-78219

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Add MS 78218-78219
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LI, LII. Indices to Privy Council Books; 1621-1628. The Council Books indexed in these two volumes were numbered as 5 to 10 in the continuous series covering the reigns of James I and Charles I, though the page-references cited here do not correspond with those in the PRO printed series of Acts of the Privy Council. The first volume also includes occasional lists of passes, patents and commissions granted, and of orders passed, and the second summaries of ‘Presidents ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1628
Extent:
2 items

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