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4412. Stowe MS 88-89
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 88-89
- Title:
- "SOME ACCOUNT of the affairs of France since the disgrace of the Duc de Choiscul [1771] to the year 1776": a minute narrative of the Court intrigues of the period, with characters of the principal persons concerned, viz. Madame du Barry, the Due de Choiseul, the Due d'Aiguillon, Maupeou the Chancellor, Abbé Terray, the Due d'Orléans, the Due de Richelieu, and several others. Two volumes. The narrative proceeds continuously to the end of 1773 : after that there is, at some interval, an accoun...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1777
- Extent:
- 2 items
4413. Stowe MS 92-93
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 92-93
- Title:
- "INVENTAIRE chronologique et detail1é de toutes les chartes qui se trouvent dans les archives des Comtes de Flandre, deposées dans l'ancienne chambre des comptes du Roi à Lille." Compiled by Denis Joseph Godefroy, Keeper of the Archives de la Chambre des Comptes at Lille. In two volumes, comprising respectively the periods 706-1240 and 1241-1270. The title-pages are dated 1784 and 1785; and in the preface to vol. i. (f. 7) the compiler states that the work, a great part of the expense of whi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1782-1785
- Extent:
- 2 items
4414. Stowe MS 132-137
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 132-137
- Title:
- TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
- Scope & Content:
- Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 14th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 6 items
4415. Stowe MS 166-177
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 166-177
- Title:
- COLLECTION of State Papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt.; 1592-1633. A few earlier and later papers are included in the last volume. Edmondes was English Agent at Paris, 1592-1599; Ambassador at the Archduke Albert's court at Brussels, 1605-1609; Ambassador to France, 1610-1617; Comptroller of the Household, 1616 ; Treasurer of the Household, 1618; and died in 1639. Twelve volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection includes original letters of English ambassadors to France and S...
- Scope & Content:
- Sir Thomas Edmondes, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1592-1633, with additions 1470-1663.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1592-1633
- Extent:
- 12 items
4416. Stowe MS 184-185
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 184-185
- Title:
- MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL PAPERS, consisting of original letters, and warrants of the various Parliamentary Committees, chiefly relating to the transactions of the Committee of Trustees or Contractors for the sale of the fee-farm rents of the Crown, which sat at Worcester House during the time of the Commonwealth; 1628-1660. With a few letters and transcripts of a later date, to 1746. Two volumes. Paper. Folio. The first part of vol. i. contains the correspondence of Sir Edward Dering, lst Ba...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1628-1746
- Extent:
- 2 items
4417. Stowe MS 194-196
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 194-196
- Title:
- COLLECTION of transcripts of state-papers, warrants, etc., tempp. Charles I.-William III., made for use as precedents. The binding (early 19th cent.) is lettered " Coventry's Papers." This refers either to Henry Coventry, Secretary of State, 1672-1679, or to his younger brother, Sir William Coventry, Secretary to James, Duke of York, 1660-1667, Commissioner of the Treasury, 1667-68, etc.; but they both died in 1686. In three volumes. There is an index of subjects at the end of each volume. P...
- Scope & Content:
- Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers, for precedents: temp. Chas. II.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [between 1625-1702]
- Extent:
- 3 items
4418. Stowe MS 200-217
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 200-217
- Title:
- ESSEX PAPERS: Royal warrants, official and private letters and other papers addressed to Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex, while Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, followed by a register of his own letters; 1672-1677. Eighteen volumes. Paper. Folio. The correspondence chiefly relates to appointments to offices in Ireland, grants of lands under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, pensions, the farming of the revenues, the irregularities in the payment of the forces in Ireland, the disabilities of th...
- Scope & Content:
- Trade: Letters and papers relating to trade in Ireland: 1672-1679. Roman Catholics: Letters relating to, in Ireland: 1672-1677. Revenue: Papers relating to the revenue in Ireland, during the Lord Lieutenancy of Lord Essex: 1672-1677. Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount (1669) and 1st Earl (1674) of R...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1672-1677
- Extent:
- 18 items
4419. Stowe MS 219-220
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 219-220
- Title:
- LETTER-BOOK containing copies of the letters of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, when Ambassador at Constantinople, written to the successive Secretaries of State in England, the Levant Company, the Consuls of the various Mediterranean Ports, and especially Gamaliel Nightingale, Consul at Aleppo, and WilliamRaye, ConsulatSmyrna, etc.; 30 Mar. 1681-16 July, 1688. Most of the letters relate to the transactions and interests of the Levant Company and to the Mediterranean Trade; but curious det...
- Scope & Content:
- William Raye, Consul at Smyrna: Letters to, from Lord Chandos: 1681-1688.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 30 Mar 1681-16 Jul 1688
- Extent:
- 2 items
4420. Stowe MS 222-232
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 222-232
- Title:
- HANOVER PAPERS, being the correspondence and papers of J- Robethon, private secretary (1) to William III., (2) to George William, Duke of Zell, and (3) to George Louis, Elector of Hanover, and George I. of England; 2 Oct. 1692-13 Nov. 1719. Eleven volumes. Paper. Folio. Vols. i.-x. have been re-arranged chronologically ; vol. xi., consisting of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, remains unaltered. At Robethon's death the collection passed to his eldest son, Col. Robethon, and after the lat...
- Scope & Content:
- J- Robethon, Private Secretary to William III., and afterwards to George I: Official and private correspondence and papers: 1692-1722.: Fr., Engl., and Germ. James Macpherson, Historian: Transcribed and published extracts from MSS: in 1775. George I of England: Correspondence and papers of J. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 2 Oct 1692-13 Nov 1719
- Extent:
- 11 items