Add MS 15942

ORIGINAL LETTERS, chiefly of Members of the Houses of Austria, Bavaria, and the Palatinate of the Rhine, from 1428 to 1717 viz. :-

Letter of Jacques [de Bourbon, Comte de la Marche], styled King of Hungary, Jerusalem, and Sicily, granting free pardon to Jehan de Tinières, Chevalier; dat. " en nostre chastel de Lombes," 28 Jan. 1428, Fr. (on parchment), f 1 ;-Rudolph II., Emperor, to William, Prince of Orange; dat. Prague, 16 Jan. [1579], Germ ; with seal, f. 2 ;-Transcript of the preceding, f. 4;-Charles, Archduke of Austria [son of Ferdinand I.. Emperor], to Christopher Hassonvile, Treasurer of the Order of the Golden Fleece; dat. Grätz 14 Oct. 1584, Lat.; with seal, f. 6;-Ernest, Archduke of Austria [son of Rudolph II., Emperor]; dat. Vienna, 16 Oct. 1584, Lat.; with seal, f. 8;-Charles Louis [Elector Palatine of the Rhine] to [Henri Auguste de Loménie] Comte de Brienne; dat. Hague, 6/16 May, 1644. Fr.; with seal, f. 10;-Leopold William, Archduke of Austria [afterwards Emperor], Lieut.- Governor of the Low Countries, to Don Antonio Carillo ; dat. Brussels, 24 Jan. 1654, Fr.; with seal, f. 12;-Johann Schweickhardt, Archbishop of Mayence, and Maximilian, Palzgrave of the Rhine, and Duke of Bavaria, to Elizabeth [Isabella Clara Eugenia], Archduchess of Austria [Governor of the Low Countries]; dat. 7 Apr. 1626, Germ.; with seals, f. 15;-Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, to the King of France [Louis XIV]; dat. Munich, 11 June, 1660, Ital., f. 18;-Henrietta Adelaide [of Savoy]. Electress of Bavaria [wife of the preceding], to [Henri de La Tour] Maréchal de Turenne; dat. Munich, 3 Apr. 1688, Fr.; with seals, f. l9 ;-Maximilian, King of Bohemia [afterwards Emperor], to Hanns Philipp, Wiedt und Reingrave; dat. Frankfort, 31 Oct. 1562, Germ.; with seal, f. 21 ;-Frederic V. [Elector Palatine of the Rhine] to the King of France [Louis XIII] ; dat. Sedan, 16/26 Sept. 1622, Fr.; with seal, f. 23 ;-Elizabeth [daughter of James I. of England, and wife of the above] to the States of Utrecht; dat. Hague, 6 Apr. 1649, Fr. ; with seal, f 25 ;-Don Carlos Alagon de Aguilar to [the same ?] ; dat' Hernem, 25 Apr. 1649, Fr., f 27;-Frederic, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Duke of Bavaria, to the Consistory of Zeeland; dat. Biponti, 30 May 1655, Lat., f. 29;- Anna Maria [de'Medici, daughter of Cosmo III., 9 Jue Duke of Tuscany, and widow of the Elector Palatine John William] to the Prince of Wales [afterwards King George II]; dat. Düsseldorf, 13 Aug. 1717, Germ. (with an English translation), ff. 30, 32. Folio. [15,942.]