EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXIX (ii + 79). Book of payments received, kept by John Stansfield, containing brief details of names, amounts and dates; 1603-1614. Autograph. Contemporary vellum binding with leather ties, annotated on the front cover by Richard Evelyn as his executor. 290 x 210mm.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXX (ff. 75). 1. ff. 1-19. Feoffment by William Shelley relating to all his lands, including Denton, co. Sussex; 1581. [italics]Copy[/italics]. Endorsed by Richard Evelyn. 2. ff. 20-50. Indenture from Richard Sackville, 3[superscript]rd[/superscript] Earl of Dorset, for...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXI. Miscellaneous financial papers of John Stansfield, including quarterly statements of account, notes of money paid, agreements and covenants for various transactions, and a warrant from the King to collect a voluntary loan; 1593-1625. At the end is a handwritten and han...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXII. Executors' papers of John Stansfield, many endorsed by Richard Evelyn; 1626-1633. 1. Bills, etc., for mourning and funeral expenses; 1626-1627. 2. Will of Stansfield; 28 April 1621. [italics]Signed[/italics] on every page, and endorsed, `Mr Stansfild's first will'...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIII. John Sampson: `Nestor's Panygyric: The Praise of Old Age … Written by the Author at Corpus Christi Coll: in Oxford’; 1624. With emblematic decorations in pen and ink on the title-page. The text, which begins, `To the most vertuous, wise and true Nestor Mr John Stan...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV (ff. i + 84). 1. ff. 1-49. Letters to George Evelyn from his brother John; 1649, 1687-1698. No original letters from John to George survive between 1650 and 1686, though some copies are entered in Evelyn's letterbook (Add. MS 78298). For letters from George to John, ...
George Evelyn (1617-1699) 78291-78294. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV-CXXVII. Papers of George Evelyn, elder brother of the diarist; 1641-1699. These papers, in contrast to those of his father and younger brother, are fragmentary and miscellaneous. He inherited Wotton in succession to his father and lived from 1640 till 1699. He married twice: Mary, daughter of Daniel Caldwell (d. 1644) and Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Offley and widow of Sir John Cotton of Eltham (d. 1664). Both his sons, G...
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George Evelyn, brother of John Evelyn: Correspondence and papers: 1641-1699.