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11. Add MS 78585-78610

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Add MS 78585-78610
Title:
ESTATE PAPERS: SURREY 78585-78610. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXVIII- CCCCXLIII. Estate papers relating to the Surrey estates owned by the Evelyn family; 1486-1863. The main sequence of manorial records and deeds relating to these estates is on deposit at Surrey History Centre, Woking (Deposit no. 6330). The material described here consists of miscellaneous paper documents, account-books, etc., relating to the estates, which, probably because of their format, were retained with the persona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1486-1863
Extent:
49 items

12. Add MS 78274-78281

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Add MS 78274-78281
Title:
Richard Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1640)
Scope & Content:
Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1613-1640.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1642]
Extent:
8 items

13. Add MS 78462-78529

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Add MS 78462-78529
Title:
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart
Scope & Content:
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet: Corrrespondence and papers: 1697-1785.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1145-1840]
Extent:
75 items

14. Add MS 78168-78271

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Add MS 78168-78271
Title:
GONSON AND BROWNE 78168-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-CIV. Papers which accrued to the Evelyn archive as the family papers of Mary, wife of John Evelyn (1620-1706) and only surviving child of Sir Richard Browne, Bart (1605-1683). They consist of papers (78168-78171) which descended to Browne through his mother Thomasine (d. 1638) from her father Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577) and grandfather William Gonson (d. 1545), both of whom had been in turn Treasurers of the Navy; further pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1660
Extent:
109 items

15. Add MS 78544-78545

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Add MS 78544-78545
Title:
SIR JOHN EVELYN, 2ND BART. 78544, 78545. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXVII, CCCLVIII. Records of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart. (1706-1767), as Clerk of the Greencloth; 1761, 1765. The 2nd Bart. survived his father by only four years, and apart from his letters to his parents in Add. MS 78471 and a few financial papers of his period in Add MS 78526 above, the following volumes deriving from his court office are the only records of his to survive. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1761-1765
Extent:
2 items

16. Add MS 78430-78439

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Add MS 78430-78439
Title:
Mary Evelyn (wife of the diarist)
Scope & Content:
Mary Evelyn, wife of John Evelyn, the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1648-1708.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1647-1708]
Extent:
10 items

17. Add MS 78611-78629

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Add MS 78611-78629
Title:
ESTATE PAPERS: DEPTFORD 78611-78629. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIV-CCCCLXII. Estate papers, account-books and plans relating to the tenure of the Browne and Evelyn families of the manor of Sayes Court, Deptford; circa 1545-1877. The manor of Sayes Court belonged to the crown and in the 16th and early 17th centuries was used by the Board of Green Cloth to pasture cattle for the royal household at Greenwich Palace. Sir Richard Browne (circa 1538-1604), grandfather of Sir Richard Browne, Ba...
Scope & Content:
Deptford, Kent: Estate papers, account-books and plans rel. to the manor of Sayes Court: circa 1545-1877.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1545-1877
Extent:
34 items

18. Add MS 78678-78693

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Add MS 78678-78693
Title:
UPCOTT’S COLLECTIONS 78678-78693. EVELYN PAPERS. Albums containing autograph letters and other manuscript items, 16th-19th cent., collected and assembled by Wiliam Upcott (1779-1845), with a few loose items also collected by him, early 19th cent. For Upcott and the Evelyn family, see also Add. MSS 78577-78584 and 78641-78642 above. The documents are arranged in sets of albums by the status or occupation of the writers, and within each album alphabetically by the writer’s name, or chrono...
Scope & Content:
William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Albums of letters and portraits, 16th-19th cent. assembled by William Upcott: early 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
16 items

19. Add MS 78630-78643

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Add MS 78630-78643
Title:
CATALOGUES OF THE EVELYN LIBRARY 78630-78643. EVELYN PAPERS. . CCCCLXIII- CCCCLXXVI. Catalogues of the book collection begun by John Evelyn (1620-1706) and added to by later generations of the Evelyn family; 1653-[1860s]. Including a few lists of manuscripts. For the collection as dispersed at auction, 1977-78, see Christie’s sale catalogues, The Evelyn Library, Part I, A-C (22-23 June 1977), Part II, D-L (30 Nov.-1 Dec. 1977), Part III, M-S (15-16 March 1978), Part IV, T-Z (12-13 July 1...
Scope & Content:
John Evelyn, diarist: Catalogues and papers rel. to the library founded by John Evelyn: 1653-1860s.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1653-[1860s]
Extent:
14 items

20. Add MS 78282-78290

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Add MS 78282-78290
Title:
John Stansfield 78282-78290. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXV-CXXIII. Papers of John Stansfield, merchant of the Cliffe, near Lewes, and maternal grandfather of the diarist; 1581-1637. Stansfield `exported through Newhaven corn, iron, ordnance and timber, principally to London and ports in northern France and the Netherlands, and imported groceries, draperies . . . salt, wine, fruit, sugar and coal, much of which was then distributed from Lewes across the weald and downland, and to Brighton’ (Col...
Scope & Content:
John Stansfield, merchant, of Lewes, county Sussex: Correspondence and papers: 1581-1637.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1637
Extent:
9 items