Add MS 74044

Walpole Papers. Vol. cclxxv. ( ff. ) Miscellaneous finance papers, etc.:-

1. Bill submitted by Walpole for extraordinary expenses as minister to The Hague, 27 Feb. - 26 May 1716, including some expenditure by D. Wolters, British agent at Rotterdam; some expenditure listed on account of Jacobite activity; see also Spies section above; draft, corrected by Walpole; with later bills 1724; [ aft. 6 June 1716 ]; for a bill of Lord Stair for 1716, see 3 below; 1716, 1724.

2. Miscellaneous papers rel. to the National Debt; reference is made to the South Sea Company, for which see also under Sir Robert Walpole below; see also speech notes, and Tilson above; 1717.

3. Letters to Walpole from Peter Leheup, Comptroller of Exchequer Bills, rel. mainly to Walpole's private accounts as Ambassador at Paris; preceded by some earlier accounts, 1716, 1722 - 1723, possibly dealt with by Leheup, for which the covering letters are not extant; with some related correspondence; some letters refer to patronage, politics, etc.; 1724 - 1727.

4. Paper of Walpole and others, with enclosures, relating to the effects of Walpole's father-in-law, Peter Lombard of Burnham Thorpe, co. Norf.; 4 June 1725.

5. Anon. paper: " A State of Exchange for the Publick remitances in the year 1742 "; n.d. [aft. 22 Jan. 1743 ].