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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4201
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Scope & Content:: MONTAGU EMBASSY 'Extracts of ye Duke of Montagues Letters to Ld. Arlington during his Embassy to the Court of France, 1669-1672' made by Birch; 16-26 Nov. 1754. The real object of the mission of Ralph Montagu (Duke of Montagu 1705) was to make a secret alliance with Louis XIV against the Dutch ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1754
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4202
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Scope & Content:: ROOKE LETTERS Original Letters of Admiral Sir George Rooke to James Vernon, Secretary of State; from the 'Britannia' at Spithead, 17 June 1697, and from his flagship the 'Shrewsbury', 11 May-16 Sept. 1700. French, English and Latin. The subject of the letters is the joint expedition of the Engl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1697-1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4203
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Scope & Content:: VERNON LETTERS Extracts and abstracts of letters to Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, Secretary of State, etc., to William III, from James Vernon, at first Secretary to the Duke and subsequently Secretary of State; 29 Oct. 1696- 6 Nov. 1708. Copies by Birch from the 'three large volumes 4 to'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4204
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Scope & Content:: SCHAUB CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence of Sir Luke Schaub during his successive embassies to Vienna (1715, 1718, 1719), Madrid (1718), Hanover (1720), Paris (1721-1724), Dresden (1731), etc., with Secretaries of State, especially James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, James Craggs and John Carteret, Lord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4205
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Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS BY BIRCH of state letters and papers. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Memorabilia in the Earl of Strafford's letters', being brief notes of the contents of the two volumes of Letters of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, printed in 1740 by Dr. William Knowler from the origi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4206
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS: as follows:- (1) Chronological notes concerning the orders of St John of Jerusalem and the Templars; 11th- 16th centt. ff. 1-5. (2) 'De Monasteriis seu Abbatijs de Archimandrita, Coenobiarcha seu Abbati, et de Monachis, Eremitis, Anachoretis, seu Hesycas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4207
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL TRACTS and historical papers, some of them in Birch's autograph. Viz:- (1) 'An Inquiry into the Rights of Free Subjects in which the Cases of the British Sailors and Common Soldiers are distinctly Consider'd and Compar'd', etc. The MS. as prepared for the press. The tra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4208
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Scope & Content:: GWYN MEMORIAL Memorial of the military services of Capt. John Gwyn of the Royal troop of Horse Guards, from 1642 to the Restoration; circ. 1660. With six prefatory dedication-letters, viz. to (a) Charles II. ff. 2-3b;-(b) James, Duke of York. f. 4;-(c) James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. f. 5;-(d) G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1660
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4209
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Scope & Content:: EXTRACTS FROM PRINTED BOOKS, etc.; 17th cent. Latin, French and English. Viz.:- (1) 'Notes taken out of the Historye of the Raigne of King H. 7 written by ... Francis [Bacon] Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban: printed 1622'. ff. 3-18. (2) 'Brief notes taken out of Samuell Daniel's collection o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4210
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Scope & Content:: PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS Memoranda on the proceedings of Parliament; 9 Feb.-24 Nov. 1610. With a few miscellaneous notes, as follows:-(a) 'Causes of the transporting of English coyne'. f. 3b;-(b) 'Sr Stephen Procters offences'; May 1610. f. 106b;-(c) epigrams, epitaphs, etc. Latin and English....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1610-1611
Extent:: 1 item

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