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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 72850-72908 Place Ireland, Europe

1. Add MS 72852

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. III (ff. iii + 225). Letters, etc., from Petty and his wife to Robert Southwell senior and Sir Robert Southwell; 1663-1683. Including (ff. 1-58, 224-225) notes, reports and letters by Petty and Southwell to Henry Oldenburg, secretary to the Royal Society, and others, concernin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1663-1683
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 72853

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. IV (ff. iii + 223). Correspondence, etc., between Petty and Sir Robert Southwell, 1684-1687, continuing the preceding volume, followed by correspondence, 1687-1688, between Petty's eldest son, Charles, and Southwell's son, Edward; 1684-1688. As in the preceding volume, the enc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1684-1688
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 72854

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. V (ff. iii + 167). Correspondence, 1668-1683, with related papers by Petty and others, and notes by Southwell of his own and Petty's opinions concerning public affairs; 1661-1683. The papers include: 1. ff. 2-4v. 'Severall Accompts and Estimates in order to the distribution,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1661-1687
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 72855

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. VI ( ff. ii + 154). Correspondence, 1683-1698, with related papers; 1663-circa 1700. Including some relating to the twin-hulled ship. The correspondence between Lady Petty and Southwell is not printed in the Petty-Southwell Correspondence. The papers include: 1. ff. 3-4v. 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1705
Extent:
1 item

5. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1672-1685
Extent:
1 item

6. 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. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1648-1691
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 72858

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. IX. Letterbook, containing copies, in the hands of several amanuenses, of Petty's letters to various correspondents, including his Irish agents, John Rutter and Thomas Waller (whose letterbooks are Add. 72860-72862 below); also including some personal letters to Lady Petty, Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1672-20 Nov 1675
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 72858-72864

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PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. IX-XV. Letterbooks of Petty and his agents; 1671-1686. These were part of a sequence of volumes once in the collection of William Burton Conyngham, grandson of Mary, wife of Petty's eldest son Charles (d. 1696) by her second marriage. On his death in 1796 they were bought first by the collector Austin Cooper of Dublin (1759-1830), and then by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1831, becoming first Phillipps MS 6486, and then 14332-14349 (see Slatter, 'Report', I, p. 113). They were ...
Scope & Content:
Ireland: Letterbooks rel. to Sir W. Petty's Irish estates: 1671-1700.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1671-1686
Extent:
7 items

9. Add MS 72875 A-BB

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVI A-BB. Manuscript maps by a single unidentified cartographer, of Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio (London, 1685), the first printed atlas of Ireland, based on the Down Survey for those areas which it covered, and on earlier surveys of western areas, chiefly the Strafford survey of 1636-1640; [late 1650s-early 1660s]. There are no scale bars, but the scales are reduced from those of the Down Survey maps as follows: county maps 2 Irish miles to the inch [1:161,240]; province...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Ireland: Sir William Petty, political economist: MS maps for the Hiberniae Delineatio by Sir William Petty: late 1650s-early 1660s.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Late 1650s-Early 1660s]
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 72876 A-DD

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVII. 'Census' of Ireland
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In ink-ruled columns, under the headings (by barony in the case of counties): 'Parishes', 'Places/Townlands', 'Number of People', 'Tituladoes Names', 'English (and Scots)', 'Irish'. In at least two different clerical hands, with the county totals on the first leaves apparently in Petty's hand,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1659?]
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30 volumes