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032-002109547 Place Westminster, England

1. Add MS 4390

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PAPERS relating to a report to be drawn up in London for the use of some Italian state (? Venice) as to the conditions, privileges and laws affecting the supply of provisions and manufactures into the London markets; circ. 1700. Italian and English. Paper; ff. 20. Folio. Circ. A.D 1700. Trade a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4213

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BILLS OF MORTALITY 'A Collection of the yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657-1757 inclusive: together with several other Bills of an earlier Date', being collections, drafts, etc., prepared by Thomas Birch for his printed edition of the above work in 1759; circa 1757. The four treatises on the s...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1757
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1 item

3. Add MS 4472

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BIRCH'S LITERARY DIARY Literary diary of Thomas Birch, 1754-1764, including, besides notes of various books and anecdotes of persons, the following:- (a) Reference to the death of Elizabeth Foster, Milton's grand-daughter and last descendant, 1754. f. 3;- (b) Extracts from Lord Burghley's MS. d...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754-1764
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4299

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters and papers, of a commercial and diplomatic character, mostly referring to foreign affairs. Included are some original letters, imperfect or unsigned drafts, etc. The names of the writers, etc. are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Paper; ff. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4270

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Vol. III (ff. 127). Private papers of and documents collected by Thomas Birch; 1621-1765. Included are documents connected with his incumbencies of Ulting, co. Essex (1732), St. Margaret Pattens, London (1746-1766) and especially Debden, co. Essex (1761-1766). includes: f. 1 Philip Knightsbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1765
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4166

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Letters of John Thurloe. Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, 1655-1657; other state papers and cipher-keys from the 1650s; letter of Anne Thurloe, widow of John Thurloe, 1668
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The bulk of this collection is made up of two main series. There are forty letters from John Thurloe, Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, between June 1655 and July 1657. There are about thirty cipher-codes which were evidently in Thurloe's office ('abo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1655-1668
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 4271

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Vol. IV (Forty-three vellum or paper documents). Letters of ordination and institution, declarations of conformity, diplomas, etc., of Thomas Birch; 1730-1761. The appointments, etc., are as follows: Deacon, 1731; Priest, 1731; Vicar of Ulting, co. Essex, 1732; Rector of Llandewy Welfrey, co. Pe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1730-1761
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4435

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 285). (1) 'Defectus solis observatus e specula Bononiensis scientiarum instituti ... referente Eustachio Manfredio', 15 Aug. 1738. Printed. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, p. 94. ff. 1-2b. (2) Account of electrical experiments by Jean Théophile Desaguliers; 1738, 173...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1738-1739
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 4158

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State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1657-1660
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The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1657-1660
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 4155

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English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
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This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume