Add MS 61651

Vol. DLI (ff. iii+227).

(1) Letters of Robert, 2nd Earl of Sunderland as Secretary of State, to Thomas Chudleigh, Envoy at The Hague; 1683, 1684. Copies. ff. 1- 16.

(2) Letter-book containing copies of letters of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland as Secretary of State, to British envoys, etc., abroad; 1706-1710. Partly French. ff. 18-227.

includes:

• ff. 1- 16 Thomas Chudleigh, Envoy Extraordinary at the Hague: Letters to: 1683, 1684.
• ff. 1-16 Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland: Correspondence and papers: 1660-1697, n.d.
• ff. 4-5 Sir John Chardin, of the East India Co: Letter to: 1683.
• ff. 4-5 Sir Josiah Childe, 1st Baronet: Letter to Sir J. Chardin: 1683.: Copy.
• ff. 18-143b passim Sir Paul Methuen, KB, Ambassador to Spain and Portugal, afterwards Secretary of State: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1706-1710.: Partly Fr. and Portug.: Partly printed and copies.
• ff. 18-222 passim James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland,: 1706-1710.: Partly Fr., Span. and Catalan.: Mostly signed. Partly copies, printed and drafts.
• ff. 18-227 passim John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd; diplomatist: Correspondence, etc., partly on his behalf, with Lord Sunderland, etc.,: 1706-1710: Partly Ital., Fr. and Lat.: Mostly signed. Partly cipher, printed and extract.
• ff. 18b-226b passim Henry Newton, Envoy to Florence; Knight 1715: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1705-1710.: Partly Ital., Lat. and Fr.: Partly signed.
• ff. 18b-68 passim Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell: Letters, etc., to Lord Sunderland: 1706-1707.: Partly Fr.
• ff. 19, 26b, 47b,58 George Stepney, diplomatist: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1705-1707.
• ff. 19-224 passim Abraham Stanyan, alias Stanian; Envoy to Switzerland and at Vienna: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1706-1717.: Partly Fr.: Partly copies.
• ff. 19b, 26, 27, 30, 41b Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1706-1708.: Partly signed, drafts and copies.
• f. 20 Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon: Letter to: 1706.
• ff. 21b, 23, 24, 29, 31b, 34b, 40 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1706-1709.: Partly signed.
• ff. 22-227b passim Henry de Massue de Ruvigny, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny; Earl of Galway: Correspondence, partly on his behalf, with Lord Sunderland: 1704-1717.: Partly Fr. and transl.: Mostly signed.
• ff. 36, 41 b, 77 François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandre; Huguenot lieutenant-general: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1707-1708.
• ff. 38-120 passim Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester; Ambassador at Venice: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1710.: Partly Fr. and Ital.
• ff. 39b, 43, 112b, 122, 132, 157, 168b, 183 George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1710.: Partly signed and copies.
• ff. 49-226b passim Sir John Norris, Admiral of the Fleet: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1707-circ. [1718?].: Mostly signed.
• f. 63 Nicolas Herne, Consul at Alicante: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1707-1709.: Mostly signed. Partly copies.
• ff. 63, 63b Major-General John Richards, Governor of Alicante: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1707-1708.
• ff. 63, 77b, 115b Vice-Admiral George Delavall, Envoy to Morocco and Portugal: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1709, 1718.
• ff. 68b, 122b, 125b Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1640: Letters, etc., to: 1706-1710.
• f. 70b James Dayrolle, Resident at The Hague: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1706-1709.: Partly Fr.: Partly copies.
• ff. 70b-222 passim John Lawes, diplomatist: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1709.: Extract and copies.
• f.71 Daniel Pulteney, Envoy at Copenhagen: Letters to: 1707-1722.
• ff. 80b-224b passim William Cadogan, 1st Baron and (1718) Earl Cadogan: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1708-1720.: Partly Fr.
• ff. 82-83, 106b Baron Ezechiel von Spanheim,; Prussian envoy in London: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1710.: Fr. and Dutch.: Mostly signed.
• ff. 88b, 157b, 190, 200,209,212b Sir Robert Sutton, Ambassador at Constantinople: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1707-1710.
• ff. 89b-92, 93b Johann Philipp von Hoffmann, Imperial Resident in London: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1708.: Fr.: Partly signed.
• ff. 94-217b passim Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes, diplomatist: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland,: 1708-1715.: Partly Fr.: Partly signed, imperf. and copies.
• ff. 97b-166 passim John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1703-1720.
• ff. 101b, 107, 114, 116b, 122b Sir John Leake, Admiral: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1708-1710.: Partly signed.
• f. 102 Sir John Leake, Admiral: Instructions to: 1703-1708.
• f. 102 Anne of England: Instructions to Sir J. Leake: 1708.: Copies.
• ff.110-110b Manoel Telles da Silva, Marquês de Alegrete: Correspondence with Lord Galway: 1708-1709.: Transl. and copies.
• ff.110-110b Henry de Massue de Ruvigny, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny; Earl of Galway: Correspondence with Marquês de Alegrete: 1708-1709.: Transl. and copies.
• f.111b John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and 1st Duke of Greenwich: Letters to: 1708-1710.
• ff. 115b, 183 John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd; diplomatist: Letters to: 1707-1711.
• ff. 115b-117, 183-184b Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton; Secretary of State: Letters on behalf of Lord Sunderland: 1708, 1709.: Copies.
• f. 116 Alexander Stanhope, envoy at The Hague: Letter to: 1708.
• f. 116b Sir John Leake, Admiral: Letters to: 1704-1708.
• f. 116b Alexander Stanhope, envoy at The Hague: Letters to Lord Sunderland: 1705, 1708.: Partly extract.
• ff. 117, 131b, 140b, 142, 152b, 187, 225b Adam Cokburne, Lord Ormiston: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1708-1710.: Mostly signed.
• ff. 117, 184 Henry de Massue de Ruvigny, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny; Earl of Galway: Letters to: 1697-1709.
• ff. 121b-227passim William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd 1767: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1710.: Partly Fr., Ital. and Lat.
• f. 123b John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol and (1713) of London: Letter to: 1708.
• f. 123b John Wich, Envoy to Hamburg, Bremon and Lübeck: Letters to: 1708.: Partly Fr.
• f. 129 Joseph I; Emperor of Germany: Letters, etc., to: 1705-1709.: Lat., Fr., Ital. and Germ.
• ff. 130b-226b passim Christian Cole, Secretary to Charles, 1st Duke of Manchester: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1710.: Partly Ital. and Lat.: Partly signed and printed.
• ff. 135, 137b, 138b, 149b,151,158,186 Admiral Sir Edward Whitaker: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1708-1709.: Partly Fr. and Ital.: Mostly signed.
• f. 145b James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope: Instructions to: 1706, 1709.: Partly Lat.
• ff. 146, 154b, 163 Admiral Sir John Jennings, Lord of the Admiralty and Governor of Greenwich Hospital: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1707-1709; 1721.: Partly signed and copies.
• f. 147 Sir Charles Hedges, Secretary of State: Correspondence, mostly as Judge of Admiralty Court, with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1706-1710.: Partly Fr.: Mostly copies. Partly signed.
• f. 148b Luis da Cunha, Portuguese Plenipotentiary at Utrecht and Ambassador in England and France: Memorials to Qu. Anne: 1709.: Fr.: Copies.
• ff. 149b-223b passim Francis Manning, Resident in Swiss Protestant Cantons: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1709-1718.
• f. 150 Frederick I of Prussia: Letter to Baron Sinold von Schütz: 1709.: Copy.
• f. 150 Baron Ludwig Justus Sinold,; called von Schütz; Hanoverian diplomatist: Letters to H. Boyle: 1709.: Fr.: Copies.
• f. 150 Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton; Secretary of State: Letters, etc., to: 1708-1710.: Partly Fr. and Dutch.
• f. 150 Baron Ludwig Justus Sinold,; called von Schütz; Hanoverian diplomatist: Letters to: 1707.: Fr.
• ff. 154, 190 John Fleetwood, English Consul at Naples: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1708-1710.
• ff. 154b, 172, 191 Thomas Kirke, Consul at Genoa: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.,: 1707-1709: Partly Ital.: Partly, copies.
• ff. 163, 163b,168,178,182b Thomas Leffever, Secretary of Embassy at Lisbon: Correspondence, partly on behalf of Lord Galway, with Lord Sunderland, etc.,: 1708-1709: Partly Fr.: Partly signed, copies and extract.
• f. 164b Christopher Crowe, Consul at Livorno: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1706-1709.: Partly Ital.: Partly signed.
• f. 179 Giuseppe Gioacchino Carron di San Tomasso, Conte di Briançon; Savoyard Envoy in London: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland: 1706-1709.: Fr.
• f. 179b Charles III of Spain: Correspondence with Qu. Anne,: 1704-1709.: Lat. and Fr.: Autogr. copies and drafts.
• f. 183 William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd 1767: Letters to: 1708-1710.
• f. 197 Navy; England: Admiralty instructions to seize Genoese ships: 1709.: Copy.
• ff. 197-197b Republic of Genoa: Admiralty instructions to seize its ships: 1709.: Copy.
• f. 203 Victor Amadeus II; Duke of Savoy: Correspondence, etc., with Qu. Anne: 1705-1710.: Mostly Fr.: Signed and copies.
• f. 204b Annibale Maffei, Count; Envoy from Savoy to England, afterwards Viceroy of Sicily: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1707-1710.: Fr.
• ff. 214, 216b, 218, 225 John Scudamore, Acting Consul at Genoa: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Sunderland: 1710.
• f. 218 George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter d 1732: Correspondence with Lord Sunderland, etc.: 1708-1721.: Partly copies.