032-002036874 / Level: [37] SubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78231 A-F
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIV (ff. 152). Memoranda, with some notes of Browne’s reading, etc.; 1636-1682, n.d. Partly imperfect. Partly Latin, Greek, French and Italian. The memoranda, which were begun during his period of service with Scudamore and Leicester, include some from his period as Charles I’s agent in France. See also below Add. MS 78459 for an alphabetical commonplace-book of Browne that was re-used as an account-book, 1683-1690, by John Evelyn junior; headings run from ‘Absenti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1636-1682
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78232-78234
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXV-LXVII. Verse and other material collected by Sir Richard Browne; circa 1603-1682. Partly Latin, French and Italian. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603-1682
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78258-78262
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XCI-XCV. Committee for Examinations: Records, comprising informations, petitions, letters, and orders of the Council of State, with bonds for good behaviour, etc.; June 1649-Jan. 1653, n.d. (with four items only for 1649 and one major gap from April to June 1652). Partly printed. These papers were abstracted from the official transactions of the Council of State, 1649-1660, the bulk of which are to be found in The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office and S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1649-Jan 1653
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78532-78537
Title:: Charles Godolphin 78532-78537. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXV-CCCLXX. Official documents compiled or collected by Charles Godolphin as Commissioner of Customs; 1691-1712, n.d. Charles Godolphin of Coulston was the younger brother of Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin, and of Mrs Jael Boscawen. The volumes were given to Sir John Evelyn, also a Commissioner of Customs, by Charles Godolphin’s widow Elizabeth; see her letter to him of 4 Jan. 1722/3 (Add. MS 78468 above): `tis with great pleasure that...
Scope & Content:: Charles Godolphin, MP: Papers as Commissioner of Customs: 1691-1712, n.d. Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1691-1712
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78215-78217
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78629 IA-IB
Title:: I a,b. `A Survey of the Mast Dock by the Red House at Deptford with the way reserved up to Esq: Evelyn House and a foot way by the Ditch side for to come to mend to Sluss [sic] that is on the east side of the Red House. Surveyed 5th Nov 1711. By John Grove’. Scale bar: 70 feet: 3 inches [1: 840]. No compass orientation. Ink and coloured washes, with a cartouche made up of an ornate engraved border, cut out and pasted on to enclose the MS title. Showing the dockyard boundary (left); the ed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Nov 1711
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78210-78214
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78256-78257
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXXXIX, XC. Letters and papers of Robert Long (afterw. 1st Bart) as secretary of state and privy councillor to Charles II when Prince of Wales; 1646-1649, n.d. The status of these as confiscated royalist papers amongst Council of State records is more certain. A trunk of Long’s papers was seized when Jersey (where Charles II had stayed on his flight from England in 1646) fell to the parliamentary forces in December 1651, and referred by the Council of State to the Com...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1646-1649
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78605 A-D
Title:: Vol. CCCCXXXVIII A-D. July 1794-July 1795; July 1795-July 1796; July 1796-July 1797; July 1797-June 1798.
Scope & Content:: County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1794-1798
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78174-78175
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

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