EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 55). Miscellaneous papers and accounts mostly relating to military and household duties and mercantile ventures of Leicester; 1565-1586. 1. ff. 1-4. New Year's gifts received by and presented to Leicester; 1564. Included are jewels, plate and household stuff, cloth...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XX. Horoscope of Christopher Browne; 2 Sept. 1611. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. Latin. Browne’s date of birth is given as 8 Feb. 1577, in London, and predictions are offered as far as 1631. Formerly Evelyn MS 268. ff. 12. 318 mm x 203 mm. Sewn gathering of twe...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXI. Horoscope of Sir Richard Browne, Bart.; n.d., circa 1611. Fair copy, partly autograph, with revisions. Browne’s date of birth is given as 6 May 1605, at Deptford. Dates from 1609-1641, apparently added later, occur in another hand in the margins of the final section...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LVIII (ff. 73). Household accounts in Paris; 20 [Oct.] 1642-23 Sept. 1645, 23-30 July 1646, 20 Mar. 1644 N.S. English and French. The accounts were rendered each Saturday during the period. Notes of sums received or paid, most of them from or to William Peters (or Peter),...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LX. (ff. 168). Legal documents relating to Browne’s personal affairs; 1640-1681, n.d. Partly French. Included are:- 1. Papers relating to suits for debt brought against Browne by Pierre Chevreuil, butcher of Paris, etc.; 26 Oct. 1654-30 Feb. 1655. French. Partly vellu...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIX. Jean Picart: Four imaginary dialogues of social life, in French; n.d. (circa mid 1640s). Apparently autograph. The tract is prefaced by a dedication in prose to ‘Monsieur Richard Browne’, that is, Browne’s son Richard, followed by acrostic verses. Picart (fl. 1620-...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXX. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘His last Admonitions to his Daughters, His answeares to theire letters, Their refusall of a Conference, after they had accepted the same, His morre particullar Declaration and Sommons, Their answeare on the said Sommons, His reply thereon. And t...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXI. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘The relation of sr Balthasar Gerbier Knight, Master of Ceremonies to the king of great Britain, For the Cleering of some particullars which haue by some been misunderstood, during the Raignes of king James, and king Charles’; Paris, 25 June 164...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXIII. Political tracts on France and Switzerland; circa 1561-1571 and circa (but aft.) April 1617. Copies, partly imperfect. Partly English and Italian. The volume comprises two tracts, transcribed in a continental and an English hand respectively, brought in a singl...