HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. LXXXVII.-XC. Letterbooks of Sir Joseph Yorke (Baron Dover 1788), Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hague, containing copies of his private and confidential letters to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness, successive Secretaries of State; 1753-1758. Four volumes. Paper. Folio.
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Joseph Yorke, Baron Dover: Official letter-books: 1753-1758. Netherlands, United Provinces: Correspondence and papers of Sir J. Yorke, English Minister at the Hague: 1752-1784. Robert D'Arcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse; Ambassador at Venice (1744), Minister at the Hague (1749), Secretary of State...
(I. ff. 146). 20 Nov. 1753-10 Oct. 1755. includes: ff. 1-24 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1715; formerly Pelham; Secretary of State: Correspondence with Sir J. Yorke: 1752-1765.: Copies.
(IV. ff. 21). 3-14 Feb. 1758. includes: ff. 8-13 William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford: Correspondence with Lord Stormont: 1768-1771. ff. 10, 12, 13 David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield: Letters to Lord Rochford: 1770.: Copies.