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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4158
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4159
Title:: State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:: Many of 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 intell...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1578-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4160
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 340). Viz:- (1) Notes by Birch from the MSS. of Sir Julius Caesar, Master of the Rolls, relating to the latter's life and family, etc. ff. 1, 17-25. (2) Queen Elizabeth to Nicholas Throckmorton, Resident at the French Court, giving reasons of her determination not to send an Amba...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1562
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4160-4164
Title:: COLLECTION OF TRANSCRIPTS, chiefly in the handwriting of Birch, of State Papers and letters, from private and public libraries, together with a few original papers; 1425-1728. Five volumes. Quarto. The names of the writers of the original papers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Included among these papers are:-
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1425-1728
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4161
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 296). Opinion of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, on the legality of marriage between cousins german; Westminster College, 2 Mar. 1640/1. Autograph. f. 146. includes: ff. 99, 100 John Barlee: Letters to -: 1612.f. 146 John Williams, Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Lincoln, Lor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 Mar [1641]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4162
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 280). Viz:-(a) James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1661, to John Maitland, 2nd Earl and 1st Duke (1672) of Lauderdale, on Church matters; London, 28 Apr. 1657. ff. 46-47;-(b) Robert Long to John Colepeper, Lord Colepeper; The Hague, June 1657. ff. 208-209b;-(c) Isaac Vossius to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1657-1681
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4163
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 280). John Somers, Lord Somers, Lord Chancellor, to Lord — (? Thomas Wharton, Earl of Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), on the subject of Money Bills for Ireland; 15 July 1710. ff. 216-217b. includes: ff. 184-189b Nicolas Facio Duillier, mathematician: Letter to H. Hastings,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15 Jul 1710
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4164
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V (ff. 373). Sir Edward Conway, Secretary of State, to James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, Ambassador to France; Newmarket, 21 Feb. 1624/5. Draft, partly autograph. ff. 146-148. includes: f. 7 William Herring, Dean of St Asaph: Letter to (?)P. Yorke: 1745.f. 131 Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Feb [1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4165
Title:
Scope & Content:: FLEETWOOD PAPERS Original letters and papers (including two autograph letters from Oliver Cromwell) written to, or concerning Gen. Charles Fleetwood, Commander-in-Chief in, and (1654-1657) Lord Deputy of, Ireland; 1652- 1659, 1666. Most of the letters are of the year 1659 and have reference to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1652-1666
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4166
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

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