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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 72850-72908 Name Matthews, James, librarian to 1st Marquess of Lansdowne Digitised Content No

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. I. General correspondence of Sir William Petty; 1649-1687. Including (f. ii) a list of contents by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, labels by James Matthews (ff. iii, 167), and annotations throughout by both. For an item by item list, see Slatter, 'Report', I, pp. 44-62, and for...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1649-1687
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1 item

2. Add MS 72851

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. II. Letters from Sir Robert Southwell to Petty, 1674-1687, and his wife, 1679-1688, with a few drafts or copies of Petty's replies, two original letters (ff. 210-214) from Lady Petty to Southwell, 1687, 1688, which appear to have been added to the volume after binding in the 1...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1673-1688
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1 item

3. Add MS 72856

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. VII. Letters from Petty to his wife, Elizabeth (née Waller, widow of Sir Maurice Fenton, 1st Bart.); 1672-1685. The letters were written during separations, chiefly while Petty was in Ireland, and accordingly they cover only 19 March-27 Aug. 1672, 24 April-26 July 1675, 24 May...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1672-1685
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1 item

4. Add MS 72857

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. VIII. Personal correspondence and papers of Petty and his family; 1648-1691, n.d. The flyleaves (ff. i-ii) contain a list of the papers by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne. With two labels by James Matthews, (f. iii) 'Lady Petty's Correspondence with her Children, 1684', and (f. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1648-1691
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1 item

5. Add MS 72866

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XVII (ff. 179). Papers concerning England and public affairs in general in the reign of James II; 1685-1687. For related material concerning Anglo-Irish matters and religion, see Add. 72867 and 72882-72889 below. See also Petty-Southwell Correspondence, pp. 143-144, for Petty'...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1684-1688
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1 item

6. Add MS 72874

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXV. Petty's account, written in the third person, of the making of the Down Survey, with the heading added in the hand of James Matthews, 'Sir William Petty's History of the Survey of Ireland in 18 chapters'; [late 1659-early 1660]. Chiefly in a single clerical hand, with a f...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659-1660
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1 item

7. Add MS 72877

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PETTY PAPERS VOL. XXVIII (ff. 171). Papers relating to the 'Down Survey' and redistribution of land; 1654-1659, n.d. See also Add. MS 35102, Petty's day-book as commissioner for settling the army's arrears, 1656-1659. Including a label by James Matthews, (f. i), '... Papers concerning Army Arrea...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1650-1664
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1 item

8. Add MS 72878

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXIX (ff. 112). Papers relating to Ireland, chiefly the Restoration land settlement; 1661-1672. See also Add. 72854, ff. 2-5, 'Severall Accompts and Estimates in order to the distribution, settlement and Government of Ireland', circa 1661, and 'An Account of the Distribution o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1656-1679
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1 item

9. Add MS 72879

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXX (ff. 119). Papers relating to Ireland; circa 1670-1675, n.d. Petty spent the years 1666-1673 and 1676-1685 in Ireland; for his proposals concerning the Irish revenue and trade in this and the following volume, see Barnard, 'Sir William Petty, Irish Landowner', in History a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1665-1676
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1 item

10. Add MS 72880

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXXI (ff. 157). Papers relating to Ireland, particularly schemes for the revenue; 1680-1683. See also Add. 72852, ff. 189-190, 'Sr Wm Petty's Considerations to the E. of Ossory about transporting live cattle from Ireland to Rotterdam', Jan. 1680; ff. 199-200, 'A view & con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1677-1687
Extent:
1 item