Egerton MS 2884

MISCELLANEOUS historical papers and original letters, 1452- 1874, viz.:-

A. 1. Extracts from the Flores Historiarum (Rolls Series ed., ii. pp. 190-221) relating to Hubert de Burgh. In a hand of the end of the l5th cent. f. 1.

2. Copy of proclamation by Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Charles Nevill, Earl of Westmorland; Nov. 1569. Printed in Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1566-1579, Addenda, p. 111. Followed by a list of persons exempted from pardon for the earls'' rebellion (ib. pp. 113, 114). f. 2.

3. Translation of a supposed bull of Gregory XIII. to Henry III. of France, enjoining upon catholics to marry two wives apiece, in order to replace the losses sustained in wars with the Huguenots; 8 Oct. 1582. f. 3.

4. List of prisoners for the Earl of Essex''s conspiracy; 1601. f. 4.

5. "An order set downe for the translating of the Byble" circ. 1604- 1607. See Westcott and Aldis Wright, Hist. of the English Bible, pp. 112-116. f. 5.

6. Articles of enquiry concerning conformity; Circ. 1604?. f. 7.

7. Seven articles agreed on? by bishops and puritan and other divined; circ. 1604-1605?. Copy. f. 8.

8. Tract (title lost) to encourage the Netherlanders in resistance to Archduke Albert; circ. 1607 ?. An expanded form of this tract is in Royal MS. 17 B. xlix. f. 9.

9. Letter of Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 1613, to whom the king was granting Raleigh''s lands; ? 2 Jan. 1609. Copy. Printed in Edwards'' Life of Ralegh, ii. p. 326. f. 12.

10. Newsletter concerning religious controversies and affairs on the continent, the death of Arminius, the Cleves succession question, etc.; end of 1609. f. 13.

11. Complaint against a witch, apparently near Norwich; temp. Jas. I.. The petitioner''s boar, horse and calves suffered. Nicholas Wesgate told him the boar was bewitched or mad; it bit his wife. He himself was ill after burning one of the dead calves. f. 14.

12. "A particqular of such guiftes as weare presented to her? highnes the Princess Elizabeth, Electress Palatine? by the States Generall of the United Provinces," 10 May, 1613: jewels, a lookingglass, tapestry, linen and furniture for a chamber of china-work, black and gold. f. 15.

13. List of knights and others from various counties, perhaps proposed for sheriffs; circ. 1622-1628. f. 16.

14. "Newes from Spayne" concerning the visit of Prince Charles and the Marquis of Buckingham; Mareh, 1623. f. 17.

15. List of officers killed or taken at the Isle of Rhé, 29 Oct. 1627. f. 18.

16. "A declaration of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England to the Generall Assembly of the Churche of Scotland," sent with the commissioners appointed 19 July, 1643. Copy. Printed in Rushworth, Historical Collections, 1721, v. p. 468. f. 19.

17. Proclamation by the Estates of Scotland, for arming to support the Solemn League and Covenant; 18 Aug. 1643. Printed, ib. p. 482. f. 19 b.

18. Thanks of the Grand Jury to the Lord Mayor, Sir Patience Ward, and sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Slingsby Bethel and Henry Cornish; 1 Sept. 1681. Copy. f. 20.

19. Anonymous advice of a father to his son, a young law student; late 17th cent.. f. 21.

20. Will of Katherine Wilson of the city of York, widow of Nathaniel Wilson of the same, merchant; 1 Oct. 1734. Copy. f. 23.

All the above except artt. 5, 16, 17 are charred at the edges. B. Original letters, viz.:-

1. Louis, Dauphin of Vienne, afterwards Louis Xl. of France, to his father, Charles VII., with offers of help against the English in the Bordelais; Vienne, 25 Oct. (endorsed, as received at Feurs, 27 0ct. 1452). Signed, Loys. Printed by Étienne Charavay, who then owned the letter, in Charavay and Vaesen, Lettres de Louis XI, 1883, i. p. 57. f. 25.

2. Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, to ?Col. Hugh Mackay Gordon on affairs in the Peninsula, the inefficiency and arrogance of the Spaniards, who are ruined by their lucky success at Baylen, etc.; that, if the reinforcements now coming arrive in time, he may save the cause yet, and that, "whatever may happen, you may depend upon it that I am perfectly aware of the nature of the stake for which I am playing; that neither brawling in Common Councils or Parliaments nor newspapering shall make me stir a step that my own judgement does not approve of"; Castaxo, 5 Feb. 1811. Hologr. f. 26.

3. Marian Evans "George Eliot" to A- F- D''Albert - Durade of Geneva on Adam Bede and on her feelings with respect to religion; Wandsworth, 6 Dec. 1859. Printed by Cross, George Eliot''s Life, ii. p. 124. f. 29.

4. Jean François Millet to - Le Marquand, who had submitted to the painter''s criticism some of his son''s drawings; Barbizon, 14 Jan. 1874. French. f. 31. C. Papers chiefly of Sir Hugh Cholmley, Governor of Scarborough Castle, which he held during the Civil War, at first for the Parliament, but afterwards for the King, viz.:-

1. "An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons......for the utter demolishing........of all Monuments of Superstition or Idolatry out of all the Churches and Chappells" etc.; 28 Aug. 1643. Printed, 29 Aug. 1643. f. 33.

2. "Memorialls touching the Battle of Yorke" (or Marston-Moor), 30 June-4 July, 1644. In Cholmley''s hand. Cf. Calendar of Clarendon Stage Papers in the Bodleian Library, i. p. 250, no. 1764. f. 37.

3. Charles I. to Sir Hugh Cholmley, on the importance of holding Scarborough as long as possible, if besieged; Trecarrick, 2 Aug. 1644. Signed by George Digby, Lord Digby, afterwards 2nd Earl of Bristol, Secretary of State, and at the top by the King. f. 41.

4. The Committee of Both Kingdoms to Sir Hugh Cholmley; Derby House, 27 Aug. 1644. Enclosed (f. 45) is their answer to his propositions "concerning the Rendition of the Towne and Castle of Scarbrough," dated 26 Aug. Both documents are signed by Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and John Maitland Viscount Maitland, afterwards 2nd Earl and 1st Duke of Lauderdale. f. 43.

5. Cholmley to Prince Rupert, that his men are not to be confided in, and asking for a force to be sent to raise the siege by land or else reinforcements bt sea; 4 Sept. 1644. Hologr. copy f. 47.

6. "Some observations and memoriaIls touching the Hothams," Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, and John his Son, executed for treason to the Parliamentary cause 2 Jan. and 1 Jan. 1645. In the hand of Cholmley, who was Sir John''s cousin. Printed from an Oxford copy (ib. p. 255, no. 1809) in Clarendon Stage Papers, 1773, i. p. 181. f. 48.

7. "A true copye of the King''s vow which was preserved 13 yeeres under ground by mee, Gilbert Sheldon, 1660, Aug. 21": vow of Charles I. that, if restored to his rights, he would give back to the Church all impropriations, etc., dated Oxford, 13 Apr. 1646. Copy, cf another at Oxford (ib. p. 311, no. 2176). Printed in Eachard''s History of England, Appendix, 1720, p. 5, and Le Neve''s Lives of the Bishops since the Reformation, 1720, p. 178. f. 51.

8.Letter of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, to General Charles Churchill, on the pleasures of retirement; Houghton, 24 June 1743. Copy, of. another in Add. MS. 4293, f. 87, and Cox''s Wapole, i. p. 762. f. 53. Paper; ff. 54. Folio.