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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78446-78447
Title:: EVELYN `PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX, CCLXXX. General commonplace books of John Evelyn junior; circa 1668-[1690s?]. Autograph. See also Add. MS 78598 below for estate memoranda in a notebook formerly used by him and containing a few of his commonplace notes. Two volumes. Uniform bindings of brown calf, matching the volumes used for the letterbooks and sermon notes of John Evelyn the diarist (Add. MSS 78298-78299 and 78364 above). 350 x 225mm.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1699
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78447
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXX. `Collections of Modern History' (front paste-down); [1670s-1690s?]. Formerly Evelyn MS 57. ff. ii + 31
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1670s-1690s?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78448
Title:
Scope & Content:: Evelyn Papers. Vol. cclxxxi. Commonplace notes and extracts by John Evelyn junior, mostly on religion, law, history and literature, etc.; circa 1670-1696, n.d. Partly Latin, Greek, French, and printed. For further notes, removed from the archive by William Upcott, see Add. MS 19590, ff.1-75....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1665-1696
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78449
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII. Answers of defendants Henry Blagdon, Sarah Blundell, Edward Bury, William Coleman, George Measfield, Robert Pingstone, Henry Richards, William Warren, and Phillip Williams respectively to the information against them by Sir Thomas Powis, Attorney-General, acquired b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1687
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78449-78452
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII-CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior relating to the public revenue; 1681-1687, n.d. Evelyn had a succession of posts connected with the public revenue, obtained through the patronage of Sidney, Lord Godolphin; in 1687 he was commissioned by the Treasury to investigate concealed lands in Devonshire (Diary, IV, p. 565). He served under the Treasury secretary as chief clerk from circa July 1689 until June 1691 (Office-holders in Modern Britain: Treasury Official...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1681-1687
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78450
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXIII. Treasury papers, chiefly concerning the collection of revenue in the counties; 1684-1705, n.d., but chiefly 1688-1692. Mostly official copies, including endoresements or drafts by John Evelyn junior. At the end are two lists in his hand, of `Non-Associating Peer...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1684-1705
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78451-78452
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXIV, CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior as commissioner of the Irish revenue; 1681-1697. Including former Evelyn MSS 113, 276, 277. At the end is a copy of a sermon preached at Christ Church, Dublin, 23 Oct. 1696, formerly Evelyn MS 119. Two folders.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1681-1697
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78453
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVI. Advice by John Evelyn the diarist to his son as he was about to set out for Ireland, headed `Testamentum in Procinctu'; 10 Aug. 1692. Autograph, signed on p. 45 and dated on p. 100. Concerning the conduct of a Christian life; p. 47 onwards contain prayers and dev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Aug 1692
Extent:: 1 item

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