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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478

21. Add MS 4160-4164

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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

22. Add MS 4165

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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

23. Add MS 4166-4167

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Title:
THURLOE PAPERS Second Series
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1655-1799]
Extent:
2 items

24. Add MS 4168-4172

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ROE LETTER-BOOKS Letter-books of Sir Thomas Roe, containing copies of his correspondence and papers during his negotiations as Ambassador- Extraordinary to Hamburg, and, afterwards, to Regensburg and Vienna, for the settlement of a general peace, with the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, France, Sweden and Denmark; 1638-1642. English, French, Italian and Latin. Five volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Roe, diplomatist: Letter-books: 1638-1642. Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Negotiations of Sir T. Roe with: 1638-1642.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1638-1642
Extent:
5 items

25. Add MS 4173-4175

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LETTERS OF JOHN CHAMBERLAIN to Sir Dudley Carleton and others; 1598-1625. Copied by Birch from the originals then in the State Paper Office. Three volumes. Most, if not all, of the letters, from 1603, were printed from Birch's transcripts in The Court and Times of James I, 2 vols., 1849, and The Court and Times of Charles I, 2 vols., 1849. The earlier letters (Vol. I, ff. 63-177) were edited for the Camden Society, Old Ser., vol. 79, 1861, by Sarah Williams. At the beginning of Add. MS. 4173...
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John Chamberlain, d 1627 letter-writer: Correspondence with Sir D. Carleton: 1598-1625.: Copies. Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester: Correspondence with J. Chamberlain: 1598-1625.: Copies. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

26. Add MS 4176-4178

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'HISTORICAL LETTERS written in the Reigns of James I and Charles I ... now first publish'd from the Originals in the British Museum, [State] Paper Office, and private collections. By Thomas Birch, D.D.'. Birch's intention to publish (on the verso of the above title-page is an estimate of the cost, etc.) was never carried out but, with the omission of the two letters of an earlier date (Vol. I, ff. 17, 18) and with the addition of the letters of J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton (see Add. MSS...
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
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

27. Add MS 4179

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BIRCH'S 'INTRODUCTION', addressed 'To the Right Honble Philip [Yorke] Lord Viscount Royston', of the above 'Historical Letters' (cf. Add. MSS. 4176-4178), dated 29 Sept. 1760, in which he gives biographical notes of some of the principal writers. A note (f. 29) by Birch altering, in the above dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1760
Extent:
1 item

28. Add MS 4180

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NICHOLAS PAPERS 'Extracts of the State Papers and letters of Sr Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to the King Charles I and II, from the originals in the possession of his grandson William Nicholas Esqr. and now in that of Sr John Evelyn, Bart.' made by Birch in 1750-1751. Of the originals so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750-1751
Extent:
1 item

29. Add MS 4181

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'THE RELATION OF SR BALTHAZAR GERBIER, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies to the King of great Brittain, For the cleering of Som particullars which have by some been misunderstood, during the Raignes of King James, and King Charles', preceded by the author's dedication-letter to Charles, Prince of Wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1648
Extent:
1 item

30. Add MS 4182

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COLLECTION OF NEWS-LETTERS; 1665-1746. Including:- (1) A series, in one handwriting, giving continuous news, domestic and foreign; Jan.-Nov. 1665. ff. 1-56. (2) A series, dated from London, giving occasional news; 9 Sept. 1684- 17 Feb. 169 4/5. Some are addressed to John Ellis, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1665-1746
Extent:
1 item