Add MS 72436

TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vol. CXCV (ff. 191). Documents relating to special embassies from England to Denmark, Sweden and the Hanse towns, etc.; circa Sept. 1643-2 June 1646, n.d. Partly autograph, signed and printed. Partly Latin and German. The negotiations, which relate to commerce, begin with a petition (f. 1-4) to Parliament from the English Merchant Adventurers trading to Germany, circa but before 2 Sept. 1643: cf. Commons Journals, III, 266. They include copies and drafts of letters of credence and instructions, etc., along with despatches addressed to Weckherlin by Theodore Haak and Robert Lowther, Richard Jenks and William Barker, and Thomas Skinner. Several of Haak's letters are written in German and accompanied by English abstracts in Weckherlin's hand. For copies of official letters to Haak, etc., in Weckherlin's letter-book see below, Add. 72437. From Misc. XX, XXI, XL, XLI and D/ED Misc.

includes:

• ff. 1-145 passim Robert Lowther, envoy to Denmark: Richard Jenks, envoy to Denmark: William Barker, Commissioner from the Eastland Company to Denmark: Charles I of England: Christina of Denmark: Hanse Towns: Christian IV of Denmark: Theodore Haak, envoy to Denmark: Despatches of and instructions to, etc., as envoys to Denmark, Sweden and the Hanse Towns to Theodore Haak to Robert Lowther to William Barker to Richard Jenks: 1643-1644: Partly Lat. and Germ.: Partly copies.