Add MS 45359

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

(1) Letter from Georgius Major, theologian, to Hieronymus von Baumgärtner, Senator of Nuremberg, giving an account of current events in Saxony and asking for Civil Law books; Wittenberg, 3 Jan. 1529. Latin. ff. 1-2b.

(2) Letter from the Privy Council to Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, announcing that Queen Mary I was with child and ordering the Te Deum to be sung in all churches of the diocese; Westminster, 27 Nov. 1554. Printed (London, 'in ædibus Iohannis Cawodi', i.e. John Cawood, Queen's Printer; black letter) with manuscript certification by Humfrey Dyson, Public Notary. Belonged to Thomas Jolley, F.S.A. (Sotheby's sale-cat., 18 May 1853, lot 1249; sold to Stewart), who refers to it in a letter to Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L., 3 Jan. 1852 (Add. MS. 34578, f. 483b). f. 4.

(3) Letter from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Henry IV, King of France, assuring him of his continued services; London, 10/20 Apr. 1597. French. f. 5.

(4) Certificate relating to the services of John Dinge, gardener at Hampton Court, co. Midd., signed by Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, as Keeper of Hampton Court, 25 Dec. 1600-25 Mar. 1601; Whitehall, 27 Mar. 1601. ff. 7-8b.

(5) Letter from Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, to Christine, Duchess of Savoy, complimenting her on her treatment of Père Monot and assuring her that he will further the good understanding between the Duke of Savoy and the King of France; 28 May 1631. Draft in the hand of Denis Charpentier, his secretary, with alterations possibly by Richelieu himself (see Robert Lavollée, 'La véritable écriture du cardinal de Richelieu et celle de ses principaux secrétaires', Rapports et Notices sur l'Édition des Mémoires du Cardinal de Richelieu (Société de l'Histoire de France), ii, 1907-1914, pp. 1-17). French. ff. 9-9b.

(6) Warrant of William Juxon, Bishop of London (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), Lord High Treasurer, to the auditors of the King's revenue, demanding a certificate of the King's hereditary revenues; London House 16 June 1637. Copy, 17th cent. ff. 12-13b.

(7) Warrant to Sir David Cunningham, Bart., Receiver-General of the revenues which had belonged to the King as Prince of Wales, to continue the payment, with arrears, of an annuity of £40 granted in 1638 to Arnold Ratsipen, Keeper of the Engine-House at St James's; Westminster Palace, 3 July 1640. Signed by Charles I. Signet en placard. ff. 14-15b.

(8) Declaration in favour of liberty of conscience, attributed (in the endorsements) to James II; circ. 1687. Contemporary copy. f. 16.

(9) Letter (concluding page only) from John Tillotson, D.D., Dean (afterwards Archbishop) of Canterbury, to Nicholas Hunt of Canterbury conc. the latter's illness; [Edmonton, 16 (in some copies 26) Jan. 168,7/8]. Copy, (?) early 18th cent. Other copies of the letter are in Add. MSS. 4236, f. 289; 5105, f. 24; 19683, ff. 88, 91, and 45511, f. 29; it has been printed in F. H[utchinson], The Life of the Most Reverend Father in God John Tillotson, 1717, p. 74, T. Birch, The Life of the Most Reverend Dr John Tillotson, 1752, p. 135 (whence it was reprinted in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr John Tillotson, ed. T. Birch, 1752, i, p. xxxviii), an unidentified edition of Elegant Extracts: or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, circ. 1790, p. 595, and The Gentleman's Magazine, lxv, 1795, p. 275. There are many textual variations in the different copies of the letter; the present version is most closely related to that published in 1717, but is not derived from the printed text. ff. 17-17b.

(10) Private instructions from Queen Anne to James Scot, Envoy Extraordinary to Augustus II, King of Poland; Kensington, 17 May 1711. Signed by the Queen. Signet missing. ff. 19-20b.

(11) Letter from Jean Pierre Mariette, French engraver and print collector, to Arthur Pond, painter and engraver; Paris, 23 June/4 July 1727. French. ff. 21-22b.

(12) Letter from the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D., to James Neild, jeweller and philanthropist, the day before the former's execution; [Newgate Prison], 26 June 1777. ff. 23-24b.

(13) Military sketch-map of the Pisuerga River in Spain, for about 20 miles above Dueñas, by Maj. (afterwards Gen.) Philip Bainbrigge (K.C.B. 1854); [? October 1812]. The map is on the back of a letter (in Spanish) from Gen. Miguel Ricardo de Alava to Col. Geronimo Mesino, Valladolid, 10 Sept. 1812; it originally extended over 'half a sheet of coarse foolscap' stitched to the bottom of the present sheet, where sewing holes are visible (see Aide Mémoire to the Military Sciences, 1846, i, p. 535 n.; Plate II of this work, and of its 2nd edn., 1853, is an engraving by J. W. Lowry of part of the map). Presented to Prince Arthur (1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 1874) by Gen. Bainbrigge's son, Maj.-Gen. Philip John Bainbrigge; on f. 28 is his letter to Maj.-Gen. Howard Crawfurd Elphinstone (K.C.B. 1871), the Prince's Governor, circ. 1865. ff. 27-29b. Paper; ff. 29. Folio. 1529-circ. 1865.

Presented by H.M. King George VI.