Add MS 15914

ORIGINAL LETTERS to and from members of the family of Sydney, with other documents relating to them ; in the following order

Commission from Thomas [Ratcliffe, third] Earl of Sussex, Chief Justice of the Queen's forests on this side Trent, to Sir Henry Sydney, Deputy Justice, and others, to make inquisition of the bounds of the royal forests in Kent ; dat., Canon Row [London], 18 July, 1 Eliz. [1559], f. 1 ;-Letter from Sir Henry Sydney [Lord President of the Council of Wales] to John Throckmarton, Justice of Chester, respecting a levy of footmen ; dat. Greenwich, 17 May, 1550, f 3;-" A note of seche wrytinges as wer delyvd. to the right honourable [Frances] the Countes of Sussex [wife of Thomas Ratcliffe, third Earl], by Owen Moore, Gente, from Sr. Henry Sydney, Knight, the 23 of June, 1563 ;" signed by the Countess, with a portrait of her prefixed, engraved by "J. Faber, 1714," f. 6;-Orders of the Council in the Marches of Wales for the issue of a commission to John Scudamore and Richard Seborne, for the levy of foot-men in co. Hereford; dat. Wrexham, 21 May, 2 Eliz. [1560], signed by Jo. Throk[morton], f. 8 ;-Order of the same for letters to- Haclet, to attend the muster, signed Jo. Throk[morton], W. Gerrard, Elis Price, f. 9;-Letter from H. Argenlieu [?] to [Sir Henry?] Sydney; dat. Basle, 5 June, 1573, Fr., f. 10;-Lady Mary [Dudley, wife of Sir Henry] Sydney, to John Cokrain, gent. desiring him to send her money; dat. Greenwich, Thursday after St. Bartholomew's day, 1573, f. 12;-Warrant from the same to the same, to pay wages; dat. Whitehall, 27 Jan. -, f. 14;-Don Cesare Carrafa to Sir Philip Sydney, informing him of the death of Edward, Lord Windsor [of Stanwell]; dat. Venice, 3 Feb. 1575, Ital. ; with seal, f. 15 ;-Johannes Crato a Crafftheim to the same dat. Prague, 20 Mar. 1575, Lat., f. 17 ;-Joachimus Mollerus to the same dat. Prague [1575], Lat., f. 19;-Theophilus Banosius to the same (three letters) ; dat. Cologne and Frankfort, June, 1575-May, 1576, Lat., AT 22, 27, 28;-Sir William Fitzwilliam to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord Deputy of Ireland; dat. Holme Patrick, 1 Oct. 1575; with seal, f. 23;-Don Cesare Carrafa to Sir Philip Sydney ; dat. Venice, 2 Dec. 1575, Ital., f. 25;-Charles de L'Ecluse to the same (two letters) ; dat. Vienna, 28 May, 8 June, 1576, Fr., ff. 29, 31 ;-

Thomas [Butler, tenth Earl of] Ormonde to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord Deputy of Ireland ; dat. from the Court, 9 Jan. 1576 ; with seal, f. 33;-Edward Waterhous to the same; dat. Bristol, 2 Aug. 1577; with seal, f. 35 ;-

"Coppyes or mynnytes of obligations remaynyng" in the custody of the Quenes Mates. Sollycytour, being forffaytted to the Quene's Mattie [in Wales]; signed by Sir Henry Sydney, f. 37;-Joannes Sturmius to [Sir Robert Sydney?] ; dat. Northeim, 8 May [1579], Lat., f. 41 ;-Claudius Auberius Triuncurianus to Sir Philip Sydney; dat. Basil, nonis Julii, Lat., f. 43 ;-Sir Robert Sydney (afterwards Viscount Lisle and Earl of Leicester) to his wife, Barbara [daughter of John Gamage]; dat. at the Hague, 13 May, 1592, f.45;-Thomas Adams to Francis Woodward [Secretary to Lord Sydney] (nine letters); dat. Wotton, Jan. 1604-June, 1607; with seals, ff. 47, 49, 51, 55, 57, 62, 68, 71, 75;-Sir Thomas Conyngsbye to the same; dat. Hampton Court [co. Heref], 8 Sept. 1604, f 53 ;-Henry Winston to [Robert Sydney] Viscount Lisle; dat. Standish [co. Glouc], 7 Dec. 1605, f. 59;-Viscount Liste to Thomas Golding; dat. London, 22 Mar. 1606, f. 61 -Arthur Androes to Francis Woodward; dat. Wotton, 4 May, 1607, with a postscript by T. Adams, f. 64 ;-Dr. Nicholas Bonde, President, and the Societv of Magdalen College, Oxford, to Viscount Lisle, respecting the tithes of Slimbridge [co. Glouc], 27 Oct. 1606, f. 66 ;-Charles Clowghe and William Clough to Francis Woodward; dat. Slymbridge, 7 June, 1607, f. 69;--Acknowledgment by Roer [Manners] Earl of Rutland, of having received from Viscount Lisle his bond for settling land on his wife; dat. 8 July, 1607, f. 73 ;-[Edward Russel] Earl of Bedford to Viscount Lisle ; dat. Greenwich, - 1610, f. 76;-

[Robert Cecil] Viscount Cranborne (afterwards Earl of Salisbury), to the same (addressed as Lord Sydney, Lord Chamberlain), and the rest of the Privy Council, n. d. [1604 or 1605], f. 78;-W. Everarde to the same; dat. Flushing, 7 Mar. 1613, f. 80 ;-Receipt from Lady Lettice, Countess of Leicester [daughter of Sir Francis Knolles, and widow of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester], to Viscount Lisle for rents, 20 Mar. 1618, f. 82 ;-[William Herbert], Earl of Pembroke, to the Earl of Leicester, promising his interest with the King to obtain a place ; dat. Whitehall, 22 Oct. 1625, with seal, f. 94 ;-[Henry Danvers] Earl of Danby, to the Countess of Leicester [Dorothy Percy, wife of Robert Sydney, second Earl of Leicester] ; dat. Cornbury Park, 3 Apr. 1637, f. 86;-[Charles, Marquis] de la Vieuville to the Earl of Leicester; dat. , Dothland" [Oatlands?], 13 Aug. 1637, Fr.; with seals, f. 88;-Lady Dorothy Sydney [afterwards wife of Henry Spencer, Earl of Sunderland] to her father the Earl of Leicester, 23 Mar. 1637 ; with seals, f. 90 ;-Sir John Temple to the same (two letters); dat. Blackfriars, 7 Feb. 1638, Barwicke, 11 June, 1639, ff. 92, 98;-[Robert Sydney, second] Earl of Leicester to Mr. Hawkins, at the Signet Office; dat. Penshurst, 5 June, 1639, f. 94;-[Dorothy, Countess of Leicester] to the same, 17 Sept. - ; with seals, f. 96 ;- G. J. Peblis to the Earl of Leicester, Ambassador at Paris (two letters); dat. Zurich, 4/14, 11/21 Dec. 1639, Fr., ff. 100, 102;-[Lucy Percy, Lady Carlisle, wife of James Hay, Earl of Carlisle] to [the same]; dat. London, 28 Aug. [1642], f. 104 ;-The Countess of Leicester to the same (two letters), n. d. [1642-3] ; with seals, ff. 106, 108;-The Earl of Leicester to the Queen, desiring to know the reason of his removal from the office of Ld. Lieut. of Ireland, 9 Dec. 1643 (the rough draft), f. 109 ;-Robert Sidney [son of the Earl of Leicester, Lieut. Colonel of a regiment in the service

of the States] to M. Hugens [Constantinus Huygens, Herr von Zuylichem], Secretary to the Prince of Orange, n. d. [1648], Fr., f. 111 ;-Deed of acknowledgment by Lady Lucy Sydney [daughter of the Earl of Leicester, and afterwards wife to John Pelham], of the receipt of a legacy from Henry, Earl of Sunderland, 20 Oct. 1647, f 112 b.;-William Emett to the Earl of Leicester; dat. London, 29 Nov. 1648, f. 114;-John Hervey [of Ickworth, co. Suff] to the same, dat. London, 28 Jan. 1652, f. 116 ;-John Kellerby to the Hon. Col. Algernon Sidney; dat. Lynn, 3 June, 1654, f 118 ;-[John Tufton,] Earl of Thanet to the Earl of Leicester; dat. Rochester, 22 May, 1662, with seal, f 120;-Verses,intitled, "A new-years Guift to the Mirror of Honour and true nobilitie, the Right Honble . Henry [Sydney], Earl of Rumny," signed Samuel Holland [1694-1704], f 122 ;-Policy of assurance to Henry, Viscount Sydney (afterwards Earl of Romney), of his house in Jermyn Street (engraved); signed and sealed by James Spelman, Deputy, and Henry Spelman, 16 Feb. 1692, f 123, b.,-Bond to Maximilian Western, for the security of a sum of money advanced by him to Elizabeth, Countess dowager of Leicester [widow of Robert Sydney, fourth Earl] and the Hon. John Sydney, dat. 10 Nov. 1704, signed and sealed by the Countess, f. 125, b. ;-Letter from Elizabeth, Countess of Leicester, to - Olmieres, at Leicester House, London, concerning the Earl's sickness, etc., 11 July [1702 ?]; with seal, f. 127;-Memoranda of houses sold or leased, 22 Dec. 1709, f. 128. b. Folio._ [15,914.]