C. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, leather tie, lined with sheets of a 17th cent. English text headed, `God and the King’. 285 x 200 x 85 mm.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXII (ff. 145). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with: 1. ff. 31. Joseph Avery, agent to the Hanse towns; Hamburg, 15/25 Aug. 1643-8/18 Jan. 1647. Mostly scribal copies, signed. Included are copies of letters, in Latin, of Johann Adler Salvius, Swedish diplomat in H...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXIII (ff. 110). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with: 1. ff. 22. William, Lord Craven; 30 Sept. 1631, 22 July 1643-30 Dec. 1647. Partly [italics]French[/italics]. Included are a retained [italics]copy[/italics] of Browne’s letter to Craven, 28 May. 1644 and a lett...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 140). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with Sir Arthur Hopton, English Ambassador to Spain; 19/29 Sept. 1641-19 May 1648, n.d. Partly imperfect. Included is a draft letter of Browne to Hopton, 9/19 Aug. 1643. A further two letters from Hopton to Browne, rem...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXIX (ff. 104). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with: 1. Sir George Radcliffe; 17 Apr. 1652-10 Nov. 1656. Including nine draft letters of Browne to Radcliffe, 1652-1655, n.d. Radcliffe’s letters of Sept. 1654-Sept. 1655 include news of Browne’s household and financi...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXVII (ff. 214). Miscellaneous official papers and documents relating to Browne’s period of residence in France; 1641-1665, n.d. Mostly copies. Partly Latin and French. Partly cipher. Browne was appointed agent to Charles I in France on 23 July 1641, following Leicester...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXIX (ff. 167). Miscellaneous papers rel. to European politics and diplomacy, including the Palatinate question, etc.; 1639-1660, and undated. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. Many of the papers which relate to negotiations for the re...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LIII (ff. 104). Correspondence of Browne with members of his immediate family; 1641-1652. Partly French. 1. Letters to Browne while in France from his father Christopher Browne, mostly written from Deptford and London; 19 Aug. 1641-5 Feb. 1645/6 (ff. 94). These, which sup...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LV. (ff. 133). Correspondence of Browne with members of the Pretyman family; 1647-1676. 1. Ninety-nine letters to Browne from his brother-in-law, William Pretyman, etc.; 2 Nov. 1641-21 Nov. 1662. Partly imperfect. Many of the letters relate to Sayes Court of which, ...