ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
Vol. I. (ff. 240). 1. LETTERS of Smart Lethieullier, of Aldersbrook, co. Essex (ob. 1760), chiefly on Roman and Saxon antiquities, architecture, etc.; 28 Sept. 1743-1 April, 1760. ff. 1-105. Among the special subjects treated are:- The origin of burial in churchyards and inside churches; 1744-1...
ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to Charles Lyttelton, LL.D., Dean of Exeter [1748-1762] and Bishop of Carlisle [1762-1768], President of the Society of Antiquaries [1765], chiefly of literary and antiquarian subjects; 1730-1768. Three volumes. Paper. Folio.
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Charles Lyttelton, DD; FRS; Bishop of Carlisle: Correspondence of: 1730-1768.
Vol. II.(ff. 301). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756. includes: f. 1 'Boulephorus': Letter to C. Lyttelton: 1730. f. 3 Thomas Tanner, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph: Letter to Dr. C. Lyttelton: 1735. ff. 3, 4, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 75 Dudley fami...
Vols. II., III. (ff. 301, 280). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756, and 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) Among the writers are:- George Ballard, author of the History of Learned Ladies; Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph; W. Thomas, author of History of Worcester; Elizabeth Elstob, author of a Saxon Grammar, etc.; Dr. Thomas Birch; Dr. William Stukeley; Daniel Dumaresq, of St. Petersburg; Jeremiah Mil...
Vol. III. (ff. 280). LETTERS On various topics; 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) includes: ff. 1, 10 Cæsar Ward, of York: Letters to Dr. C. Lyttelton: 1749-1758. ff. 2, 8, 18, 50, 64, 74, 78, 80, 89, 96, 100, 106, 116, 11...
MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE LETTERS, etc., English and foreign; 1613- 1818:- 1. [Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to Sir Williain Andrewes, Knt., with a present of a goshawk, etc.; Ballyne, 12 Sept. 1613. f 1. 2. [Henry Percy, 9th Earl of] Northumberland (ob. 1632), to Sir Thomas Fairfa...
LETTER-BOOK containing copies of letters of a writer whose name is not given, addressed to " Dolly Sqr," her father, John Handley, his cousin, and others, on the subject of his love for the lady, and his desire to make her his wife; St. Albans and London, 6 April, 1725-29 Jan. 1725/6 Paper; ff. ...
LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language and religion, in reply to a letter published b...
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, Treasury warrants, papers, etc.; 1619- 1818. Amongst them are:- 1. Statement of claims on the Exchequer of Frances, wife of Sir Thomas Savile, and grand-daughter of William, Lord Cobham; circ. 1620. 2. Speech of Algernon Sydney delivered to the Sheriffs on the scaffold...