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361. Add MS 72412

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Title:
Remonstrance of the House of Commons to King James I against Impositions, 1610, and the Treatise of James Whitelocke against Impositions, 1610
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. In 1610 the House of Commons was very concerned with the issue of impositions - that is, new customs duties imposed by the Crown without parliamentary sanction - as an arbitrary exaction against the property rights of the subject and the authority of Parliament. This manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1610-1642
Extent:
1 volume

362. Add MS 72426

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Title:
Diplomatic correspondence, primarily English, 1614-1636
Scope & Content:
This is a file of the Trumbull papers, which came to the family through Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), government official and poet. Wekherlin came to England with experience of government in Württemberg and active support for Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth. He was c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
24 Mar 1614-26 May 1636
Extent:
1 file

363. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder

364. Add MS 78176

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Title:
Inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–45v: Volume IX of the Evelyn Papers. An imperfect, possibly draft inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle, c. January–May 1582. The inventory of Leicester House (ff. 1r–26v), which incorporates (ff. 2r–6v passim) some notes of valuation, concludes with ‘A note of a new...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-May 1582
Extent:
1 volume

365. Add MS 78177

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Title:
Earl of Leicester's inventory book
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–84r: Volume X of the Evelyn Papers. ‘An Inventory Booke aswell of Plate Asalso of Hanginges...and other furniture of Houshold of...Therle of Leicesters...as remayneth in the chardge of Dyvers Persons in sundrye his Lordshippes Places Maii 1582...’, c. January–June 1582. Included are list...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-Jun 1582
Extent:
1 volume

366. Add MS 78178

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Title:
Earl of Leicester's disbursement book, 1584–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–81v: Volume XI of the Evelyn Papers. Imperfect disbursement book of the Earl of Leicester, 1584–1586. The entries, dated 10 and 17 April 1584, 2 October–13 December 1585, 21–31 March and 26 May–30 June 1586, record payments made on Leicester’s warrant to household servants, tradesmen and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1586
Extent:
1 volume

367. Add MS 89477/1/1

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Title:
A copy of Frances Cornford's Spring Morning annotated and decorated by Virginia Woolf
Scope & Content:
Printed volume of Frances Cornford’s, Spring Morning,with woodcuts by Gwendolen Raverat (published in 1915) and decorated withannotations and additional illustrations in coloured pencil, charcoal and chalkpastels by Virginia Woolf. Mentioned in Quentin Bell's biography of Woolf, thisvolume was a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume

368. Add MS 89675 ff. 1-105

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Title:
Letters of John Newton and Elizabeth Catlett to Dr Thomas and Sophia Ring
Scope & Content:
44 letters by John Newton (1725-1807) to Dr Thomas Ring (1761-1840) and Sophia Ring, née Tompson (1768-1848), dated 1793-1802 (ff. 1-79). The letters begin after a visit to Reading and concern Newton’s close friendship with the Rings. Subjects include the spiritual concerns of evangelicals in Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1793-1813
Extent:
1 volume

369. Add MS 89675 ff. 106-112

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Title:
20th-century letters inserted into the volume of letters of John Newton and Elizabeth Catlett
Scope & Content:
Loose materials inserted into the volume of letters: f. 106: Newspaper cutting of Lamb's letter to the Times, 7 May 1930. ff. 107-108: Letter from Frederick Bull to [Charles E.] Lamb, 26 July 1930. ff. 109-110: Letter from R. B. Mackinnon to Lamb relating to records of marriages at Gretna Gre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930-1948
Extent:
7 folios

370. Add Or 1

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Title:
Mahadaji Sindhia entertaining a British naval officer and a young British military officer to a nautch
Scope & Content:
Mahadaji Sindhia (ruled 1782-94) entertaining a British naval officer and a young British military officer to a nautch in his house at Delhi. Note: A similar portrait of Sindhia inscribed with Sindhia’s name is in Bharat Kala Bhawan, Benares. See also the portrait by, James Wales, F826. This p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

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