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151. Add MS 4290

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LOCKE CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence, etc., of John Locke, philosopher, consisting of forty-two autograph letters to his friend Edward Clarke, of Chipley, a portion of a letter-book containing his letters to Anthony Collins, and other papers; 1678-1745. The MS. was freely used by H. R. Fox Bourn...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1678-1745
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1 item

152. Add MS 4209

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EXTRACTS FROM PRINTED BOOKS, etc.; 17th cent. Latin, French and English. Viz.:- (1) 'Notes taken out of the Historye of the Raigne of King H. 7 written by ... Francis [Bacon] Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban: printed 1622'. ff. 3-18. (2) 'Brief notes taken out of Samuell Daniel's collection o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

153. Add MS 4104

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TRANSCRIPTS OF STATE PAPERS made for Birch, from originals in the British Museum, etc., as follows:- (1) Letters, etc., from William Herlle, Resident at Antwerp, and others relating to the Low Countries; 1582. Transcribed from Cotton MS. Galba C.vii, ff, 173, 205-212, 2 14, 217, 220, 232. ff. 3...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

154. Add MS 4391

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PAPERS RELATING TO COINAGE AND MINTING, among them being:- (a) Treatise on the Roman coinage and weights of metals, by Thomas Birch. Autograph. ff. 1-23b;- (b) Printed sale catalogue of the collection of coins and medals of the late Thomas Selbye; 18, 19 Dec. 1755. ff. 33-38b;- (c) Analogies and...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

155. Add MS 4470

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ST. ÉVREMOND COLLECTIONS Copies, in the autograph of Pierre Des Maizeaux, of letters and portions of longer works, etc., by Charles Marguetel de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de Saint Évremond, 1701-1703, being evidently taken chiefly from the author's own MSS. shortly before his death in 1703, when De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1701-1703
Extent:
1 item

156. Add MS 4182

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COLLECTION OF NEWS-LETTERS; 1665-1746. Including:- (1) A series, in one handwriting, giving continuous news, domestic and foreign; Jan.-Nov. 1665. ff. 1-56. (2) A series, dated from London, giving occasional news; 9 Sept. 1684- 17 Feb. 169 4/5. Some are addressed to John Ellis, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1665-1746
Extent:
1 item

157. Add MS 4192

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ANGLO-PORTUGUESE RELATIONS Collection of State Papers concerning the relations between the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of Portugal, and consisting mostly of articles, propositions, objections, etc., during the negotiations of João Rodriguez Sà e Menezes, Conde de Penaguião, Camereir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1653-1656
Extent:
1 item

158. Add MS 4247

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BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS, as follows:- (1) Key to the works of Jean Louis Guez de Balzac (d. 1654), being annotations of passages in his works; 18th cent. French. ff. 1-7. (2) Life of John Selden; 18th cent. French. The notes in the margin are by Pierre Des Maizeaux. ff. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

159. Add MS 4234

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BIRCH'S BOWER COLLECTIONS Collection by Thomas Birch of papers, letters, etc., relating to Archibald Bower, lapsed Jesuit, author of the History of the Popes, etc., and Keeper of Queen Caroline's library (d. 1766); circa 1746-1758. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Proposals for printing ... t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1746-1758
Extent:
1 item

160. Add MS 4105

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TRANSCRIPTS AND ABSTRACTS OF STATE PAPERS made by Birch, in 1753 (cf. f. 24), probably from the originals then in the State Paper Office, as follows:- (1) Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to the Queen and others, when in command of the forces in the Low Countries; 8 May 1586-22 Nov. 1587. Abs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1753
Extent:
1 item