Add MS 15946

ORIGINAL LETTERS and Autographs (chiefly official) of various English Statesmen, from 1702 to 1778 ; viz. :-

John [Lord] Granville to -; St. James's, 25 Nov. 1702 (with engraved portrait), f. 2;-Sir Charles Hedges, Secretary of State, to [Wil. Nicolson] Bishop of Carlisle; Whitehall, 23 Sept. 1704, f. 3;-Henry Boyle (afterwards Lord Carleton, Secretary of State) to Mr. [James] Dayrolle ; Whitehall, 1710 (with engraved portrait), f. 6 ;-Power of attorney to Robert Terrey, to transfer South Sea Stock, signed and sealed by [Robert Harley] Earl of Oxford, 1 Dec. 1714 (with two engraved portraits), f. 9;- "The heads of the articles of impeachment agaist the Earl of Oxford;" sent in a Letter from Tho. Banckes to Ralph Thoresby; n. d. [1715 ?], f. 10 ;-[Charles] Viscount Townshend (Secretary of State) to Sir John Norris; Whitehall, 3 July, 1716; with seals, ff. 12, 14 ;-

Horatio Walpole (afterwards Lord Walpole of Wolterton, Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague) to the same, 12 Aug. 1716 (with two engraved portraits), f. 20;-[John] Lord Carteret (Secretary of State) to Mr. [Henry] Worsley; Whitehall, 13 June, 1721 (with two engraved portraits), f. 23;-

William Pulteney (afterwards Earl of Bath) to Mr. Lockyer; Arlington St., 30 Jan. 1722, f. 25;-[Thomas Pelham] Holies, Duke of Newcastle (Secretary of State), to Mr. Dayrolle; Whitehall, 19 May, 1730, 12 Feb. 1747, ff. 26, 39;-[James] Earl of Waldegrave (Envoy Extraordinary at Vienna) to the same, 3 June, 1730, Fr., f. 28;-Sir Thomas Robinson

(afterwards Lord Grantham, Envoy at Vienna) to Hon. Horatio Walpole, 19 Aug. 1739 (with engraved portrait), f. 30;-The same to Solomon Dayrolle, 28 June, 1747, f. 32;-Private Letter from the Duke of Newcastle to Horatio Walpole; Whitehall, 11 Sept. 1739, f. 34 ;-William Bentinck, Envoy at the Hague, to Vice-Adml. Anson ; inclosing extracts from Letters of M. [Charles Marie] de la Condamine to himself, Nov.-Dec. 1745; Hague, 14 Dec. 1745, f. 36;-[John Carmichael] Earl of Hyndforde (Envoy Extraordinary to Russia) to --; St. Petersburg, 14 June, 1747, f. 41 ;-[John Montagu] Earl of Sandwich to Solomon Dayrolle; London, 23 June, 8 Sept. [1747] (with engraved portrait), fr. 43, 46; -[John Russell] Duke of Bedford (Lord High Admiral) to Lord Anson, 16 Feb. 174 7/8, f 48;-Rt. Hon. Henry [Bilson] Legge to the same; Berlin, 6/17 May, 1748 (with engraved portrait), f. 51 ;-Hon. Philip Yorke [to the same]; Wrest, 12 June, 1748, f. 53 ;-Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke (afterwards Lord Dover) to the same; Powis House, 30 Aug. 1748, f. 55;-

Drafts of two private Letters from Solomon Dayrolle (resident at Brussels) to the Duke of Newcastle, 11, 15 Feb. 1752, f. 57;-Power of attorney to Joshua Peele, to transfer South Sea Stock; signed and sealed by [William Pulteney] Earl of Bath, 6 June, 1753 (with engraved portrait), f. 60;-

Hon. Joseph Yorke to S. Dayrolle; Hague, 11 June, 1755, f. 61 ;-John Cleveland (Secretary to the Admiralty) to Lord [Anson?], n. d. [1756?], f. 63;-James Stanhope, afterwards Earl Stanhope (Secretary of State), to Sir John Norris; Hanover, 26 Sept. 1716 (with engraved portrait), f 64;-[ Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield] to S. Dayrolle, 15 Aug. 1757 (not signed, but with seal), f. 67 ;-Letter, without signature or address, from Admiral Augustus (afterwards Viscount) Keppel to George Keppel, Earl of Albemarle; Woburn, 18 July, 1767, f. 69;-

[Richard Grenville] Earl Temple, Lord Privy Seal, to Mr. Adams; Stowe, 6 June, 1771 (with engraved portrait), f. 72;-[Charles Watson Wentworth] Marquis of Rockingham to -- Dundas; Wentworth, 20 Dec. 1771 f. 73;-" Order to be observed in the funeral procession of William Pitt, late Earl of Chatham," 9 June, 1778 (printed); with an engraved portrait, f. 76. Folio. [15,946.]