PAPERS OF SIR RICHARD BROWNE, BART. 78189-78263. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXII-XCVI. Correspondence and papers, official and personal, of Sir Richard Browne, Bart. (1605-1683); circa 1620-1682, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish. Richard, son of Christopher Browne (d. 1646) and Thomasine Gonson, was entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in Michaelmas Term 1620 but did not matriculate in the university until 23 June 1623, the day on which he graduat...
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Sir Richard Browne, Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1620-1682, n.d.
Political and Diplomatic Tracts 78235-78254. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVIII-LXXXVII. These comprise items that show clear evidence of Browne’s ownership (78233-78241) or that accrued (78256-78260), or seem likely to have accrued (78242-78255, 78261, 78262), to him at various stages of his official career. Nineteen volumes.
Privy Council Papers 78210-78219. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business; 1661-1667. Browne obtained a clerkship of the Council on 27 Jan. 1641 but took his place only at the Restoration. See Add. MSS 78255-78262 below for confiscated royalist papers and records of Council of State business, which came into the custody of Browne allegedly in his capacity as Clerk. Ten volumes.
Accounts and Legal Papers 78225-78227. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVIII-LX. Household accounts of Browne, with personal papers and legal documents; 1641-1683, n.d. Partly French. Three volumes.
Outsize documents. 78263. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCVI. Outsize papers of Sir Richard Browne, etc.; 1539, 1623-1678, n.d. Partly copy, draft, printed, and signed. Partly Latin and French. 1. From Add. MSS 78201, 78202: (a) Safe-conduct by Christian IV, King of Denmark, for Jacques [Coppeques...
Papers of the Council of State. 78255-78262. EVELYN PAPERS. These papers, consisting partly of confiscated royalist papers and partly of records of Council of State business, apparently came into custody of Sir Richard Browne at the Restoration in his capacity as Clerk of the Privy Council. They must represent the papers Pepys referred to in 1681, when he asked Evelyn about ‘Sir Richard Browne’s share of the letters of State found among the Council-papers at the King’s coming-in’; Evelyn ...