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101. Add MS 4155-4159

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THURLOE PAPERS. First Series. Collection of state letters and papers relating to events at home and abroad chiefly in the time of the Commonwealth. Most of the documents 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 afterwards came into the hands of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (1737), and were 'communicated' by him to Birch, according to the Preface to ...
Scope & Content:
John Thurloe, Secretary of State: Correspondence of and state papers collected by: 1577-1668.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1577-1692
Extent:
5 items

102. Add MS 4133-4146

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FORBES PAPERS. Vols. II-XV. 4133-4146. Collections of Dr. Patrick Forbes, consisting of lists, copies, etc., of state papers in the 'Paper Office', the British Museum, and other public and private libraries, used or intended for use, in his Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols., London, 1740, 1741. Cf. Add. MSS. 4126, 4215 A, B, 4248, 4249, 35833. Fourteen volumes. Various sizes.
Scope & Content:
Patrick Forbes, d 1743 (?) MD; Scottish historian: Collections for his 'A full view of ... the reign of Q. Elizabeth': 1740, 1741. Elizabeth I of England: Historical collections of P. Forbes rel. to her reign: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1558-1687]
Extent:
14 items

103. Add MS 4249

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS; 18th cent. Four articles, artt. 3 & 4 being bound separately. Artt.1 and 2. Forbes papers: notes by Patrick Forbes, Scottish historian; 18th cent. For other Forbes papers see Add. MSS. 4126, 4133-4146, 4215A, B, 4248, 35833. (1) List of selected articles from var...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

104. Add MS 4372

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MISCELLANEOUS THEOLOGICAL TREATISES including:- (1) Introduction and six chapters of a treatise on 'Pneumatology'. Imperfect. ff. 1-27. (2) 'The History of ye General Resurrection'; 1698. ff. 28-36. (3) 'Lettre à François de Voltaire' by Josiah Martin. Printed in 1745 as Lettre d'un Quaker...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

105. Add MS 4230

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BIRCH'S LIFE OF MILTON 'An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. John Milton. By Thomas Birch M.A. and F.R.S.', as prepared for the press; circ. 1738. Prefixed to A Complete Collection of the ... Works, etc., 1738, 2 vols. Preceded by a short life of Milton in Birch's ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1738
Extent:
1 item

106. Add MS 4242

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ROPER'S LIFE OF MORE 'Sir Thomas Moores Lyfe' by his son in law, William Roper (d. 1578); early 17th cent. Copy. Imperfect at end and mutilated by damp. The work was first printed in Paris in 1626. At the beginning is an engraved portrait of Sir Thomas More taken from Henry Holland's Herwologia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

107. Add MS 4201

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MONTAGU EMBASSY 'Extracts of ye Duke of Montagues Letters to Ld. Arlington during his Embassy to the Court of France, 1669-1672' made by Birch; 16-26 Nov. 1754. The real object of the mission of Ralph Montagu (Duke of Montagu 1705) was to make a secret alliance with Louis XIV against the Dutch ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754
Extent:
1 item

108. Add MS 4109-4124

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Add MS 4109-4124
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ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Ro...
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Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr. Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1750-1751
Extent:
16 items

109. Add MS 4361

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ACCOUNT-BOOK of Thomas Dickins and Thomas Russell of collections and subscriptions from the London diocese for charitable objects handed over to Henry Compton, Bishop of London, whose signed acknowledgements are often added; 1678-1686. Among the items are:-(a)'Decr 27º, 1678. Recd . towards y' B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1678-1686
Extent:
1 item

110. Add MS 4371

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Add MS 4371
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MISCELLANEOUS THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISEs and extracts, as follows:- (1) 'The Religious History of Mankind adapted to all Common Capacitys'; 18th cent. ff. 1-55b. (2) 'A Dutifull Letter from a Prelate to a Prelate Relating to Matters of Grand Concern. London. Printed in the year ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item