Short section of George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, Sir Fopling Flutter. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke’s Theatre, translated into classical Greek by Ioannes Ionas
Chronological index compiled by the antiquary Thomas Birch of the first sixty-one volumes of the main series of the papers and letters of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1658
Scope & Content:
This volume largely contains the chronological index compiled by the antiquary Thomas Birch of the first sixty-one volumes of the main series of the papers and letters of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1658. These volumes cover the period from October 1638 (a powerful letter from Oliver ...
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
Scope & Content:
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...
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...