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1. Add MS 62081-62086

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS: papers of the Benett family of Pythouse. co Wilts, including correspondence and papers of Prince Rupert of the Rhine acquired by Thomas Benett, as secretary to the Prince; 1628-1840. Including some typewritten copies. Part of a larger collection which was dispersed in the 19th cent. Partly printed in B. E. G. Warburton, Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers (1849) (see in particular, I, pp. iii-vi and pp. 441-539, and also Add. 46651, ff. 9-10, for the sale of part of the Rupert c...
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Benett family; of Pythouse, Wiltshire: Correspondence and papers of Benett family: 1628-1840.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1840
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6 items

2. Add MS 62081

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 183). Miscellaneous correspondence, chiefly of the Benett family; 1647-1840. Some letters of William Benett, 1677-1680, are printed in Pythouse Papers, pp. 72-102. Wilts. R.O. 378, 379, 436, 493-499, 512.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1647-1840
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 62082

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. II. Notebook compiled by a member of the Benett family (Ambrose Benett?), containing copies of verse, letters, maxims, recipes, tricks and charms, legal notes, parliamentary speeches, bonds, mercentile and estate accounts, etc.; 17th cent. Partly Latin. With the 19th cent.(...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 62086

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. VI. Report by H. I. Bell of the British Museum, Department of Manuscripts (ff. 1-6v), followed (ff. 7-131) by typewritten transcripts of the narratives in Add. 62084 and 62085 above; 1914, n.d. Wilts. R.O. 444. ff. 131. 326 x 203mm. includes: ff. 1-6v Sir Harold Idris...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 62085 A

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. V A. Collection of notes, summaries of letters and extracts from printed sources in the same hand as the greater part of Add. 62084, relating to Prince Rupert's career, 1642-1653; 17th cent. Referred to by Morrah, op. cit., as the 'Rupert Log-book'. Wilts. R.O. 444. ff. v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 62085 B

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. V B. Incomplete narrative of Prince Rupert's sea voyages after the death of Charles I up to 1653; 17th cent. Referred to by Morrah, op. cit., as the 'Rupert Sea Narrative'. Wilts. R.O. 444. ff. ii+45. With contemporary pagination 113-202. Repaired and rebound in vellum, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 62084 B

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. IV B. Narrative in at least two separate hands towards a biography of the Prince, covering events circa 1638-1648; 17th cent. Referred to by Morrah, op. cit., as the 'Rupert Diary'. With contemporary pagination 1-63, and a contemporary wrapper of marbled paper, bearing the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 62084 A

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. IV A (ff. 4). 'The Breviates of the Princes Letters', by Thomas Benett; 1643-1644. Printed in Pythouse Papers, pp. 65-71. Wilts. R.O. 426. ff. 4. 324 x 227mm. Rupert, Prince; Count Palatine of the Rhine: Thomas Benett, MP; Secretary to Prince Rupert: `Breviates' of Princ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1643-1644
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 62083

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PYTHOUSE PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 97). Correspondence and papers of and relating to Prince Rupert; 1628-1909, n.d. Partly printed and copies. These came into the possession of Col. Thomas Benett, secretary to the Prince. The letters of the Civil War period are printed in Pythouse Papers, pp. 1-64. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628-1909
Extent:
1 item