Add MS 46412

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1644 - 1762. As follows:-

(1) Letter from Charles I to Prince Rupert concerning the relief of Newark; Oxford, 7 March 164 ¾^{Sign-manual, and autograph postscript. Endorsed by the same hands as other letters from the Benett archive of Prince Rupert's correspondence (cf., e.g., Add. MS. 18983, f. 3b) but not included in the catalogue of that and other correspondence published by E. Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, i, 1849, pp 479-480. f. 1.}

(2) Letter from Charles I to Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester, concerning the reduction of the town of Monmouth, etc.; Oxford, 30 Dec. 1644. Sign-manual, and signet en placard. Countersignature of George Digby, 2nd Baron Digby of Sherborne, Secretary of State. Sotheby's sale-cat., 5-10 April 1869, lot 184. ff. 2-3.

(3) Warrant from Charles II to Sir John Robinson, 1st Bart., Lieutenant of the Tower of London, for the release of Francis Witherborne, a pirate condemned by the Governor of Jamaica; Whitehall, 25 May 1673. Sign-manual, and signet en placard. Coutersignature of Henry Coventry, Secretary of State. For Captain Witherborne see Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1669-1674, nos.

785, 794, 908. Sotheby's ibid., lot 189. ff. 4-5.

(4) Order in Council referring a petition by William George Richard Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby, concerning arrears due for the site of Rushen Priory, Isle of Man, to the Lord High Treasurer for examination; 11 Feb. 167 ¾ Signed by Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council. Seal en placard. Sotheby's, ibid., lot 497. ff. 6-7.

(5) Miscellaneous official letters, instructions, and other papers addressed to Admiral Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington 1689, concerning English naval operations, etc., under his command 1680-1683, off the Barbary coast; 1681-1686. For other papers of Herbert, see Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson A. 228. Sotheby's, ibid., Charles III of Spain, afterw. the Emperor Charles VI, to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Baron and (1706) Earl Godolphin, apologising for the fact that an enclosure was not in his own hand; Saragossa, 24 July 1706. French. Autograph. Cf. Add. MS. 28057, passim. Sotheby's, ibid., lot 204. f. 38.

(7) Letter from Queen Anne to the same, dissuading him from an action 'which will not only putt this kingdom in a flame, but all Europe' (a projected resignation ? ); dat. 'Saturday' [1702-1710]. Autograph. Cf. Add. MS. 28070, ff. 2-15. Sotheby's, ibid., lot 43. ff. 40-41.

(8) Promissory note by Louis XV of France to the Marquise de Pompadour, concerning the appointment of her cousin and heir, N. Poisson de Malvoisin, to the governorship of La Rochelle on the occurrence of the next vacancy; Versailles, 9 Mar. 1762. French. Signed. Lot 636 (1) in an unidentified sale. f. 42. Paper; ff. 42. Folio. Artt. 2-7 were bought at Sotheby's, 5-10 Apr. 1869, by 'L'Estrange'. The entire collection was found subsequently among the papers of the Rev. John Charles Walter L'Estrange Burges (d. 1947) and presented by his sister, Miss Julia Sophia Burges.