TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vols. CCCXXXVII-CCCXLIII. Letterbooks relating to negotiations prior to Trumbull's diplomatic appointments; 1672-1682. Copies made for Trumbull. In the third volume are his notes concerning his arrangements for having the copies made, from which it appears that the volumes were partly copied in Paris while Trumbull was there, and partly, by means of Lillieroot, at The Hague in 1697. For further copies of this and related material, see P. Barber, 'Manuscript Sources in the Br...
TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vols. CCCLII, CCCLIII. Letterbooks of Sir William Trumbull as Secretary of State; 1695-1697. The volumes are only partly filled and contain no contemporary pagination or index. Partly printed in H.M.C. Downshire, I, pt.ii. Formerly Add. 117, 118. Two volumes.
TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVIII-CCCLI. Letterbooks of Sir William Trumbull during his embassy in Constantinople; 1687-1692. Copies mostly in clerical hands, with a few by Trumbull, of letters dispatched. Each volume has contemporary pagination and a brief index by Trumbull of persons, places and occasionally subjects. 72589 contains at the front a list by Trumbull of books and prices. At the end, reversed, is a formulary of documents issuing under the Privy Seal entitled 'The Formes of such ...
TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vols. CCCXLIV-CCCXLVII. Letterbooks of Sir William Trumbull during his embassy in Paris; Oct. 1685-Oct. 1686. Containing copies of his official letters, as well as some personal and family letters, a few in his own hand, but most entered by his secretary. Partly French. Trumbull has labelled each volume on the spine and the front cover with the covering dates. Formerly Add. 87. Four volumes. The first three have contemporary vellum bindings; the last consisted of loose she...
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Louis XIV of France: James II of England: Correspondence and papers of Sir W. Trumbull as envoy in Paris: 1682-1687: Partly Fr. and Span.
TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vol. CCCLIII. Letterbook; May 1695-Nov. 1697. Partly French. Containing copies of out-letters to a range of official, chiefly home, correspondents, including a number of clergy. Inscribed on the spine and front cover to match the preceding volume, but with 'Marchioness of Downsh...