EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLVIII-L. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business, including draft minutes, petitions, reports, orders and supporting documents; 1614-1659>, 25 June 1660-30 Sept. 1678. Partly drafts, copies and extracts. The earliest items (78215, ff. 1-14) are copies or extracts in the hand of John Wolley the younger, Keeper of the Council Records. These are followed by further minutes, 1660-1670, partly in drafts by Browne, with orders, petitions and pa...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXIV. Collection of documents mostly relating to French diplomacy; 1625-1647. Copies in several hands, and printed. Latin, French and Italian. This composite collection consists principally of texts of various treaties. The date ‘Novembre 1645’ is entered in Browne’s h...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXVI. Miscellaneous tracts, with some letters and verse; 1641-1642, n.d. Scribal copies, in the same French hand as the preceding volumes. Latin and French. With annotations by Browne and Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 168. ff. 200. Contemporary binding of mottled calf...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXVII. Armorial bearings borne by the Browne or Brown families of various counties; n.d., circa later 17th cent (but bef. 1687). This collection of drawings in trick of the arms of families of that name does not appear to be related to that compiled in 1640 by Edmund Wea...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Minutes of meetings of the Privy Council; 1661-1667. The present rough notes, copied out collaboratively by Browne and his fellow clerks Sir Edward Walker and Sir John Nicholas, etc., relate to proceedings over fifteen complete months between Feb 1661 and Dec. 1667 (78210-78214), followed by a further fifty sporadic entries dating from July to Oct. 1660 and Feb. 1661 to Aug. 1670 (78215-78217). Complementary sets of minutes are preserved in Add. MS 37820 (...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LVIII (ff. 73). Household accounts in Paris; 20 [Oct.] 1642-23 Sept. 1645, 23-30 July 1646, 20 Mar. 1644 N.S. English and French. The accounts were rendered each Saturday during the period. Notes of sums received or paid, most of them from or to William Peters (or Peter),...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LX. (ff. 168). Legal documents relating to Browne’s personal affairs; 1640-1681, n.d. Partly French. Included are:- 1. Papers relating to suits for debt brought against Browne by Pierre Chevreuil, butcher of Paris, etc.; 26 Oct. 1654-30 Feb. 1655. French. Partly vellu...