Stowe MS 770

DIARY of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, for the year 1688. Holograph. The earlier part is taken up chiefly with a law-suit brought against him by the Queen Dowager, to whom he had been Treasurer and Receiver-General from 1680 to 1685, arising out of the question of the allowances due to him in that capacity and with references to the trial of the Seven Bishops. The latter part is almost wholly occupied with the occurrences of the Revolution, and the writer's own part in it, the diary concluding, "Thus ends this unhappy yeare, fatall I fear to England. God grant the next may prove more fortunate then it seems to portend." Another copy of the same Diary, also autograph, is in Add. MS. 22,578, but the entries in many cases differ, the present copy being generally the fuller of the two and more in the nature of a fair transcript. Together with others for 1 Jan.-8 Feb. 168⁶/₇ and 1 Jan. 168⁸/₉ 17 Aug. 1690, this Diary for 1688 was printed by Dr. John Douglas, The State Letters of Henry, Earl of Clarendon, etc., Oxford, 1763, vol. ii., being taken from a copy of the present volume made when it was in the possession of Bryan Richards, to whom it had been given by the third Earl of Clarendon (ibid., vol. i., p. xxxiv.). The original had then disappeared, having been lent to a Mr. Carlton and never returned. lt was reprinted, apparently from Dr. Douglas's text, by S. W. Singer, The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, etc., London, 1828, vol. ii., p. 153. For small memorandum-books of Lord Clarendon, for 1690, 1691, see Add. MSS. 22,550; 28,190. At the end (f. 169) is inserted a copy of the will of Edward Hyde, lst Earl of Clarendon, dat. 11 Dec. 1674; with probate, 14 Dec. 1675. Paper; ff. 170. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Folio.

Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon: Diary: for 1688: Hologr.

includes:

• f. 169 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon: Will: 1674.: Copy.