EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVI. Other correspondence, official and personal, of John Evelyn junior and his wife; 1666-1717. Including a few drafts and copies of his letters and a few items in Latin and French.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVII. Legal commonplace book, dated 1680 on the spine, arranged alphabetically under topic, with sparse entries by John Evelyn junior; [1680s]. Evelyn was admitted to the Middle Temple, 2 May 1672, and called to the bar in February 1683. Formerly Evelyn MS 157. Origin...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVIII. Notes by John Evelyn junior from Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England; [1670s-1680s]. Autograph, with a later note on the fly-leaf, `J. Evelyn's Notes from Coke upon Littleton'. The fore-edges have been badly damaged by damp and have been restored...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX. Commonplace collections from history, literature, the arts and the classics, initially compiled according to his father's method of annotating the margins with notes of subject matter (for which see further Add. MSS 78328-78331 above). Partly Latin. With a pencil she...
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.
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....
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...
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...
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...