Add MS 78210-78214

EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Minutes of meetings of the Privy Council; 1661-1667. The present rough notes, copied out collaboratively by Browne and his fellow clerks Sir Edward Walker and Sir John Nicholas, etc., relate to proceedings over fifteen complete months between Feb 1661 and Dec. 1667 (78210-78214), followed by a further fifty sporadic entries dating from July to Oct. 1660 and Feb. 1661 to Aug. 1670 (78215-78217). Complementary sets of minutes are preserved in Add. MS 37820 (Aug. 1661-Mar. 1667), Stowe MS 489 (Sept. 1661-Jan. 1670) and Egerton MS 2555 (April 1661). Scarcely any Privy Council records for this decade survive in The National Archives (Public Record Office). For an exchange between Browne and Nicholas regarding the Council records, 1 Dec. 1667 and 5 Feb. 1668, see above, Add. MS 78195, and below, Add. MS 78268; for further letters, etc., 1665-1668, see Add. MSS 15858, ff. 96, 152, 184. A group of papers deriving from the Council of State, 1646-1652, acquired by Browne by virtue of his clerkship, is in Add. MSS 78258-78262 below.

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