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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Yorke, Charles, Lord Chancellor Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4107

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Title:
State papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch
Scope & Content:
Collection of state papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch (1705-1766), compiler of histories and biographer. Vol. II. Including transcripts of letters in the hands Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records, Tower of London (ff. 68r-77v), and transcripts of letters from the Hanover Papers (Sto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1745
Extent:
1 volume.

2. Add MS 4262

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Letters, speeches, etc. of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, being the copy, in Birch's hand, sent to the printer for his edition; circ. 1763. Imperfect, wanting (by the old pagination) pp. 46-88, 91-96, 126, 206-209, 214, 458. Followed by (a) a few chronological memoranda of the Bacon family. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1763
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4325

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BIRCH-YORKE LETTERS (Vol. III) 4325. Letters mainly addressed to Thomas Birch, from the following members of the Yorke family, viz.:-Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, 1758-1763 (ff. 1-8);- Philip, Viscount Royston and 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, 1741-1765 (ff. 9-43);- The Hon. Charles ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4326 A

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Add MS 4326 A
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Scope & Content:
Vol. I (ff. 184). (1) Revised drafts of portions of the Athenian letters having, in many cases, the initials of the revisers at the end of the letters (Nos. I-LXIII), published in 1741-1743. ff. 1-86. Followed by (a) 'Minutes of the Committee for revising' the same, the members present being '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1741-1765
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4456

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Scope & Content:
Vol. I (ff. 215). (1) Verses, etc., almost entirely by Birch, or addressed to him, some of them apparently written as exercises. They are:— (a) 'Jam tibi perfectum jactare, Britannia, carmen': a version (100 lines) of the Rev. John Nixon's poem on Sir R. Blackmore's Creation, 1712; 1725; follo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4475

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BIRCH CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence, etc., of Thomas Birch. The contents may be divided as follows:- (1) Rough drafts of letters (without names of addressees), notes and extracts from books, etc., in Birch's autograph. ff. 1-103 passim, 144, 159, 209-287 passim. Among these are (1) A short ac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4477

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Vol. II (ff. 329). (1) Appointment of Birch as chaplain to Princess Amelia; 1761. Copy. f. 4. (2) Testimonial for Carlo Alfonso Guadagni of Florence, M.D., for the Royal Society, circ. 1760; signed Antonio Niccolini, Saverio Manetti (of Florence, Professor of Botany), and Gasparo Cerati (of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
Extent:
1 item