Add MS 75366

Althorp Papers. Vol. lxvi. (ff. ). General correspondence and papers; 1667-1694, n.d.

Contents:

1. ff. . General correspondence; 1667-1694, n.d. Partly French.

2. ff. . Papers relating to the Revolution of 1688:-(a) Names of the peers who signed and refused to sign the petition of 17 Nov. 1688 to James II to call a Parliament, [1688?];-(b) Letter from Robert Brent to Lord M[iddleton?], urging James II not to agree to call a Parliament, 17 Nov. 1688;-(c) Letter from Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, to Halifax, summoning him to see James II, 1 Dec. 1688;-(d) Letters from James II to Lord Feversham, telling him of his intention to leave the country, and of his detention at Faversham, 10 and 12 Dec. 1688. Copies;-(e) Notes by Halifax concerning the detention of James II at Faversham, circa 12 Dec. 1688;-(f) Notes by Halifax of a meeting of peers at Windsor concerning what was to be done with James II after his return to Whitehall, [17 Dec. 1688];-(g) Commission to Lords Halifax, Shrewsbury and Delamer from the Prince of Orange, to tell the King to remove from Whitehall, with copies by Halifax of their letters to Middleton, asking to be admitted to the King, and of their report to the Prince of their interview, and a reply to the latter from Hans Willem Bentinck on the Prince's behalf, 17-18 Dec. 1688;-(h) Rough notes by Halifax of the debates of the Lords concerning the flight of the King and the calling of a parliament, [24 Dec. 1688]. See also Halifax's notes of the proceedings, 11-24 Dec. 1688, in Lansdowne MS. 255, ff.40-42, published in Foxcroft, op. cit., II, pp. 57-59, and the formal account of proceedings of 24 Dec. in Stowe MS. 370, ff. 66v-74v.

3. ff. . Title-page and introduction to a projected edition of Halifax's works, entitled `Saviliana'; aft. 1695. Attributed to his chaplain, William Mompesson, in Foxcroft, op. cit., I, p. xii, in which excerpts from the introduction are also printed; but now attributed to Alexander Sion in Index of English Literary Manuscripts, II, pt.1, ed. Peter Beal (1987), p. 510.