PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XIII-XX. Letters to Lord Preston, chiefly as Envoy in Paris, and to his secretary, Rowland Tempest; 1677-1686, n.d. Eight volumes.
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Louis XIV of France: Correspondence and papers of Lord Preston, as Ambassador in Paris: 1682-1685: Partly Fr.
PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XV. Letters from France; 1682-1686, n.d. Partly French. Some extracts are printed in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 380-382. ff. 348. 255 x 185mm. Netherby Library binding.
PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XVI. Letters from English envoys at other courts; 1682-1686. Partly French. Extensively printed in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 382-392. ff. 119. 360 x 230mm. Netherby Library binding.
PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XVII. Letters from Gideon Godet, Avocat of the Parlement of Paris, and French secretary to Lord Preston, mainly relating to Lord Preston's applications to the French court; 1683-1684, n.d. French. ff. 248. 255 x 185mm. Netherby Library binding.
PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XX. Newsletters from Paris, Fontainebleau, Toulon, Turin, Genoa, Florence, The Hague, Frankfort, Regensburg, Cologne, Vienna, Passau, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, etc.; 1682-1688. Including some notes to Lord Preston and his secretary Tempest by informants and ...
PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XVIII. Letters from the Abbé Renaudot, an official in the office of Colbert de Croissy; 1682-1685, n.d. Mostly French. Summarised in H.M.C. 7th Report, p. 392. Several of the original enclosures are now in Add. 63766. ff. 169. 255 x 185mm. Netherby Library binding.
PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XIX. ff. 185. 255 x 185mm. Netherby Library binding. 1. ff. 1-46. Letters from Roger Tilley alias Shelton; 1682, n.d. Extracts are printed in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 392-393. 2. ff. 47-185v. Letters from an anonymous spy, some addressed to Thomas Innis, with some annota...