Add MS 15941

ORIGINAL LETTERS, chiefly of Members of the reigning Families of Parma, Modena, Guastalla, and Savoy, from circa 1480 to 1723; viz. :-

Jehanne [natural daughter of Louis Xl. of France, and wife of Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Rousillon?] to her nephew [John II.?], Duke of Bourbon; dat. Saumur, 10 March [circa 1480], Fr., f. 1;-Alessandro [Farnese], Prince of Parma, Lieut.-Governor and Captain-General of the Low Countries, to the Provost, etc., of the town of Bouchain, informing them of the death of Don Juan of Austria; dat. Bourges, 10 Oct. 1578. Fr., f. 2;-[Charles de Gonzague] Duc de Retelois to [Henri de la Tour] Due de Bouillon, " premier mareschal de France;" dat. Maizières, 31 Oct. 1621, Fr., f. 4;-Laura [Martinozzi], Duchess of Modena and Regent [widow of Alfonso IV., Duke], to the Queen of England [Catherine of Braganza]; dat. Brussels, 18 Dec. 1682, Ital., f. 6;-Ranucio Farnese [Duke of Parma] to the same; dat. Piacenza, 25 Jan. 1683, Ital., f. 8;-[Cosmo III., de'Medici] Grand Duke of Tuscany to the Prince of Wales [afterwards King George II]; dat. Florence, 11 Dec. 1714, Ital.; with seal, f. l9;-Two Letters from Rinaldo d'Este [Duke of Modena] to the same; dat. Modena, I Apr., 10 Dec. 1717, Ital; with seals, fr. 12, 15;-Antonio Ferdinando di Gonzaga [Duke of Guastalla] to the same ; dat. Guastalla, 27 Nov. 1722, Ital., f 18;-Giuseppe Maria Gonzaga [Duke of Guastalla] to the Queen of

Great Britain [Caroline, wife of George II]; dat. Guastalla, 19 Jan. 1731, Ital, f. 20;-Maria Eleonora Carlotta, Duchess of Guastalla [wife of the preceding], to the same; dat. Guastalla, 7 Dec. 1731, Ital; with seal, f. 22 -Theodora, Duchess dowager of Guastalla [daughter of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt, and widow of Antonio Ferdinando, Duke of Guastalla], to the same, announcing the death of her father; dat. Venice, 25 Aug. 1736, Ital., f 25 ;-Victor Amedeo II. [Duke of Savoy] to the Queen of England [Catherine of Braganza] ; dat. Turin, 25 Nov. 1681, Fr., f 27;-Marie Jeanne [de Savoie], Duchess dowager and Regent of Savoy [widow of Charles Emmanuel II], to the same; dat. Moncailler, 1 Nov. 1681, Fr., f. 29;-

Victor Amedeo II., King of Sardinia, to the Prince of Wales [afterwards George IL] ; dat. Turin, 17 Mar. 1723, Fr.; with seals, f. 31 ;.-Anne [Marie d'Orléans, wife of the preceding], Queen of Sardinia, to the same; dat. Turin, 10 Apr. 1723, Fr.; with seals, f. 33. Folio. [15,941.]