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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4106
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 276). Viz:- (1) Appointment by Edward IV of John Russell, Bishop of Rochester, and Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers, to be Governors of Edward, Prince of Wales; 28 Sept. 1473. Copy. ff. 1-5b. (2) Sir Richard Morison to the Council; Spires, 7 Oct. 1552. Transcribed from Cotton MS. Ga...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1473-1657
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4106-4107
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS OF STATE PAPERS and letters from public and private collections, made by or for Birch, together with some original documents. In two volumes not chronologically arranged: Vol. I, 1473- 1657; Vol. II, 1598-1745. The names of the writers of letters, etc. are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Among the documents 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:: Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1473-1745
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4107
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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4108
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS OF LETTERS AND STATE PAPERS from the MS. collections of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans (1621), Lord Chancellor, etc., most of which are printed in Cabala, 1663. Paper; ff. 114. Small folio. XVIII cent. At the beginning are the notes (a) 'Mpts of Lord Bacons bought at the sale of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4109
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I, ff. 203, 1750, 1751. includes: f. 8 City of Geneva: Letter from the Senate to O. Cromwell: circ. 1655.: Fr.: Copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1750-1751
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4109-4124
Title:: ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Ro...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr. Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1750-1751
Extent:: 16 items

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