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1. Kings MS 111-118

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Kings MS 111-118
Title:
Instructions baillées à plusieurs Ambassadeurs et envoyez en diverses cours': transcripts of instructions and other papers of French Ambassadors going to or residing at the various foreign courts ; 1525-1661. In eight volumes, with tables of contents prefixed to each. For similar transcripts sec Add, MSS. 5455-5459, 30620-30623, in which many of these articles are repeated. The contents of the several volumes are as follows:-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
8 items

2. Kings MS 55-56

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 55-56
Title:
(ff. 103, 114). Instructions, and correspondence with the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary of State, of Vice-Admiral Francis Hosier, commanding the squadron employed in the West Indies to prevent the Spaniards sending home treasure, of Commodore Edward St. Lo, in temporary command after the Vice-Admiral's death at Jamaica [25 Aug 1727], and of his successor Vice-Adm. Edward Hopson till his death [ 8 May, 1728]; 28 Mar. 1726-24 June, 1728. Prefixed (vol. i, ff. 1-6) is a detailed list, endorsed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1726-1728
Extent:
2 items

3. Kings MS 129-132

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Kings MS 129-132
Title:
'Negociation de Monsieur [Antoine Lefèvre] de la Boderie, Ambassadeur en Angleterre': official papers of his two embassies-(1) as Ambassador in Ordinary, Apr. 1606- July, 1609;-(2) as Ambassador Extraordinary on business relating chiefly to the Clèves and Juliers succession dispute, Jan. 1610-Jan. 1611. Four volumes. Another copy is in Add. MSS. 30642-30644. Printed in Ambassades de .M. de La Boderie, 5 vols., 1750. In the edition the dispatches are in one continuous series. In the MS. the f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
4 items

4. Kings MS 137-138

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Kings MS 137-138
Title:
Negociation de Monsieur [Jean de Varignies, Seigneur] de Blainville, Ambassadeur en Angleterre en l'année 1626.' Two volumes, paged continuously, with table of contents at end. Another copy is in Add. MS. 30651. Cf. 'L'Ambassade de M. de Blainville' in Revue des Questions Historiques, xxiii (1878), p. 176. Blainville did not come to England till Oct. 1625, but the correspondence begins in July, when Daniel de la Mothe-Houdancourt, Bishop of Mende, the Queen's Grand Almoner, and Tanneguy le V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
2 items

5. Kings MS 57-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 57-59
Title:
(ff. 79, 108, 85). Instructions, and correspondence with the Secretaries of State, of Vice-Adm. Hopson, Sir Charles Wager, and other officers employed 'in H.M. Squadron in the Mediterranean'; 22, Dec. 1726-16 Mar. 172 7/8 . The greater part consists of the correspondence of the Duke with Wager when commanding on the coast of Spain and at Gibraltar. The list is endorsed (vol. i, f. 8 b) as presented 11 March, and is printed under that date in the Journals. Numbered 1-67. In the Commons' Journ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1729
Extent:
3 items

6. Kings MS 133-136

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 133-136
Title:
Recueil de Lettres, de Memoires, d'Actes d'instructions et de Contracts, faits pour parvenir all Traité de Mariage d'entre Madame Honriette Marie soeur du Roy, et Charles Premier Roy de la Grande Bretagne'; 1624-1625. Four volumes, each with table of contents at the end. Other copies are Harley MSS. 4593-4596, Add. MSS 4150-4154, 30646-30649. These and many other transcripts probably originate in the large collection of state papers (now in the Bibliotheque Nationale and known as the fonds d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
4 items

7. Kings MS 121-128

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 121-128
Title:
Depêches de Messire Christophe de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont, ecrites pendant son ambassade d'Angleterre au Roy [Henri IV] et à Mr de Villeroy [Nicolas de Neufville Seigneur-de Villeroi, Secrétaire d'Etat], avec les reponses de sa Majesté et dudit Sicur de Villeroy'; 1602- 1605. Eight volumes (originally only four). A list of contents is added to every second volume. Another copy, in four volumes, is in Add. MSS. 30638-30641. A copy in two in Bibl. Nat. fonds fr. 15982, 15983. A copy in eight...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
8 items

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