Records of the Lambs as Fitzwilliam Trustees As a trustee under the will of John Fitzwilliam, Matthew Lamb of Lincoln’s Inn held property in trust to raise money from its sale or from rents to discharge the provisions of Fitzwilliam’s will. This responsibility was inherited by Peniston Lamb as executor of his father’s will. For further records concerning the Fitzwilliam family, see Add. MSS 82964 and 83031. 77216-77233. ‘Deeds belonging to Lord Melbourne as Fitzwilliam Trustee’; 1751-1773.
FORBES PAPERS. Vols. VI, VII (ff. 309, 407). Lists of state letters and papers in public and private libraries, relating to the times of Queen Elizabeth, many of which are in Forbes's hand.
FORBES PAPERS. Vols. XI-XIV. Transcripts, made by Forbes, of State Papers in the Paper Office, and in the Cotton MSS., British Museum, temp. Elizabeth. The volumes were used by the editors of the Calendars of State Papers, Foreign Series.
Literary papers and correspondence of Thomas Birch, connected with his work as joint-editor of the revised edition of Bayle's General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, and as Secretary of the Royal Society; 18th cent. Many of the letters in the first volume, of which only a few are originals, are written by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, to Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford, and to Humfrey Wanley, librarian to both, and have reference to the Harley MSS., some of them containing offers from a...
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Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Papers relating to Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, Lord Chancellor; 17th-18th centt. They consist of the collections of Thomas Birch, who edited the Letters, Speeches, . . . of Francis Bacon in 1763; Robert Stephens, historiographer royal and editor of Letters of Sr Francis Bacon, published 1702; and of John Locker, who on Stephens's death in 1732 came into possession of his collection and who in 1734 edited a revised edition of Stephens's work under the title Letters and Remains of the ...
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Robert Stephens, d 1732 Historiographer Royal: Collections by, rel. to the life and works of Sir Francis Bacon: early 18th cent. John Locker, d 1760 FSA: Collections by, rel. to the life and works of Sir Francis Bacon: 18th cent. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS.,...
THORESBY PAPERS. Vols. II, III. Letters, etc., of English divines and learned men, placed in rough alphabetical order, each letter of the alphabet having a double arrangement of (a) Church dignitaries and (b) Nonconformist ministers. Latin and English.