EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII- CCXXXIII. Accounts and papers of Evelyn as Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen; 1664-1679. For this Commission and for Evelyn’s correspondence as Commissioner, see Add. MSS 78320-78322 above. Seven volumes.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII, CCXXVIII. Certificates from the shipboard officials to the Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen and agents in Evelyn's district that the individuals named therein from the ships specified have been set on shore for treatment; 1665-1666. Signed by the officials. Mostly printed forms with manuscript additions. Followed by lists of prisoners of war, 1665-1666 (ff. 137-145), and of ships, English and French, with commanders and numbers of crew (ff. 146-153), 1666-167...
Papers relating to Public Offices and Affairs 78393-78401. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVI-CCXXXIV. Papers of Evelyn relating to public offices and public affairs; 1660-1701. Evelyn was actively involved in the Restoration of Charles II and afterwards sought public office. He hinted at the possibility of being appointed Historiographer Royal and hoped for the reversion of his father-in-law’s post of Clerk of the Council, but did not succeed in either. However Charles II used him as a government write...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXIII. Account-book with many blank leaves and some previously used cut or torn out, labelled by Evelyn on the cover, `Accompt of Sick and Wounded & prisoners of War &c both The first & The second [Dutch] Warr; 1664-1669, 1671-1679. Formerly Evelyn MS 42. Original vellum bindi...