Add MS 15916

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS (chiefly originals) of the xvith, xviith, and xviiith centuries ; in the following order :-

Order of Thomas [Howard], Duke of Norfolk, " Lieutenant General of the voward and rereward" of the King's army, against the purchase of victuals from strangers (date and signature cut off), f. 1 ;-" The whole discourse of [Thomas Howard] Duke of Norfolk, arraigned the 15th day of January, ao. dni. 1571," f. 2;-" The arraignment of Phillip Howard, Earle of Arundle, the 24th day of Aprill, 1589 " (incomplete), f. 5 b. ;-Certificate of Robert Dymocke [of Scrivelsby, co. Line], that Dorothie Tempest, wife to Michael Tempest, attainted, was living at Scrivelsby, on the receipt of a pension bestowed by the Queen, dat. 2 Apr. 1577, f. 7 ;-Letter from Sir Richard Bingham to Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, recommending John Frithe for his services as a soldier; dat. Athlone, 26 Feb. 1593, f. 8;-Certificate of the death of Capt. Thomas Conway, late Governor of the ]Poor Knights of Windsor, and the admission of Capt. Thomas Muse in his room ; signed by Giles Tomson, Dean [of Windsor], and Richard Massingherd, Governor,

6 Dec. 1606, f. 10 ;-Certificate of Francis Goston, dated 21 Nov. 1621, for the charges for making a Great Seal for the Kingdom of Ireland, as shewn in the accompt of Charles Anthony, graver of the mint, from 22 May, 1600, to 30 Sept. 1609, f. 12;-" Articles of the Treaty between Cromwell and Cardinall Mazarine, taken out of a manuscript found among the late Lord Preston's papers," Fr., f. 14 ;-Draft of " the reasons why his Matie thought good to send his proposition of the - of December [1646] to London," in the handwriting of Sir Edward Nicholas, f. 15;-Petitions of Edward Twyford, John Lenthall, and others, to Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the Rolls, against John Ferriman and others, with the orders thereon, 16 Feb. 1670, 22 June, 1671, ff. 17, 19;-Petition of Sir Edward Nicholas, one of the principal Secretaries of State, to the King [Charles II], for compensation out of the estate of Alderman Andrews, deceased, for losses sustained at Thorpe, in Surrey, in 1641, f. 20;-" The Earl of Galway's [Henry de Massué de Ruvigny] answer to what the Earl of Peterborow was pleas'd to say in the House of Lords, in answer to the five questions that were proposed to his Lordship there, delivered 18 Jan. 1710," f. 21 ;-

Translation of a Letter from [George] Count Leiningen to the Prince of Wales (afterwards George II.), notifying the birth of a son ; dat. Westerburg, 18 Feb. 1717, f. 31 ;-Copy of Lord Bolingbroke's letter to Lord Harcourt, giving an account of his son's [Mr. Harcourt] death at -List of foreign letters sent to the Prince of Paris, 12 July, 1720 f. 33 ; Wales, in 1724, f. 35;-Letter from - to Lord --, relative to a clergyman named Edwards, 10 Jan. 17 49/50 (signature cut off)f. 36;-Humourous bill of fare for his Majesty's (George II] dinner on Christmas day, 1755, f. 38;-

Draft of the Credentials of Philip [Dormer Stanhope], Earl of Chesterfield, to the States General, Apr. 1728, Fr., f. 39 ;-Copies of Letters and messages between George II. and [Frederick] the Prince of Wales, on the occasion of the birth of the Princess of Wales' daughter [Aug.-Sept. 1737], f 41 Considerations upon public affairs in Ireland, 1753, f. 43 ;-Notes of the establishment of the Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland, n. d., f. 45 ;-List of accounts, etc., to be transmitted to the Lord-Lieutenant, n. d., f. 47 ;-Pensions granted in Ireland, f. 49;-Draft of a Speech intended to be delivered in the House of Lords [probably, by John Russell, fourth Duke of Bedford], on the Militia Bill [April, 1757], f. 50;-Memorandum of state carriages now in the stable-yard, 20 May, 1760, f. 54;-List of livery cloaths belonging to the Duke of Bedford [late Lord-Lieutenant] at the Castle of Dublin, 24 May, 1760, f. 56. Large Folio. [15,916.]