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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Downing, George, 1st Baronet, diplomat and financial reformer, 1623-1684 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4158

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1657-1660
Scope & Content:
The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1657-1660
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 4166

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Title:
Letters of John Thurloe. Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, 1655-1657; other state papers and cipher-keys from the 1650s; letter of Anne Thurloe, widow of John Thurloe, 1668
Scope & Content:
The bulk of this collection is made up of two main series. There are forty letters from John Thurloe, Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, between June 1655 and July 1657. There are about thirty cipher-codes which were evidently in Thurloe's office ('abo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1655-1668
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 4197

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Scope & Content:
Vol. II, 1658-1660. A few documents at the end of Vol. II (ff. 278-283) are subsequent to the Restoration. Thomas Scot, of county Buckinghamshire, regicide (d. 1660): Warrants signed by: 1659, 1660. Samuel Foxley, Deputy Clerk of the Pells: Warrants signed by: 1658-1660. Denis Bond, MP; Clerk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1658-1660
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4364

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Scope & Content:
Vol. I (ff. 170). (1) Instructions to George Downing, Extraordinary Ambassador to Geneva, Basle, etc., John Pell, Resident with the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland, and Samuel Morland, Envoy to the Duke of Savoy; 28 July 1655. Draft, partly in Secretary Thurloe's hand. ff. 1-6b. (2) Instr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1653-1661
Extent:
1 item