Add MS 78201

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXIV. (ff. 173). Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the embassy of Sir Isaac Wake in France; 1621-1632, n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian.

Including:

1. Letters addressed mostly to Sir Isaac Wake, with some newsletters, etc.; 28 April 1631-20 March 1632. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The writers include Sir Robert Anstruther, Joseph Avery, Sir Dudley Carleton, William Lord Craven, Basil Lord Feilding, Sir Balthasar Gerbier, Sir Arthur Hopton, Louis XIII, Peter Morton, Marie de Rohan and Sir Peter Wyche. ff. 69.

2. Miscellaneous diplomatic papers, chiefly copies, 31 Mar. 1621-29 Mar. 1632. Included are:

(a) Commission to Francois de Bonne, Duc de Lesdiguières, as maréchal général; 31 March 1621. French.

(b) Remonstrance of James Hay, Earl of Carlisle, and Henry Rich, 1^st Earl of Holland, rel. to the treaty between France and England; 20 Nov. 1624. French.

(c) Christian V, King elect of Denmark: Letter of credence addressed to Louis XIII for Jacques [Coppequesne, Seigneur] de Friville; 30 Oct. 1625. Latin. Latin. Signed by the king. Cf. Add. MS 78263 for a safe-conduct for Friville, 14 April 1623.

(d) Treaty between France and England; 31 March 1626. Two copies. French.

(e) Propositions made by Wake and the Earl of Carlisle, to the Republic of Venice, with replies; 28 Aug.-2 Oct. 1628. Italian.

(f) ‘Considerations touching warre with France & Spain & treaty with either’; 1628. French, in an unidentified hand. Incomplete.

(g) ‘Memoire concerning the Rochelle buisinesse &tc’, n.d. (title, apparently in the hand of John Evelyn, from docket). French.

(h) Browne’s ‘Lamentation uppon the drowning of the Kinge of Bohemias Sonne’ [i.e. Henry Frederick, son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine]; circa 29 Jan. 1629. Autograph draft. Latin.

(i) ‘Articles de Paix entre les deux Couronnes’; 14 April 1629. French.

(j) List of documents chiefly concerning diplomatic precedence; 1629.

(k) ‘A prognostication ordered and taken out, according to the Calculation of the Principall Astrologers Vpon this present yeare, 1629. Sent from Rome to his Imperiall Majestie and the Prince elector of Saxony’; Aug. 1629.

(l) Propositions made by Sir Robert Anstruther at the Electoral Diet at Ratisbon; 2 Sept. 1630.

(m) ‘Declaration de L’Emperor sur les 5. points de la Proposition Electorale’; Ratisbon, 12 Nov. 1630. French.

(n) Louis XIII and Gustavus Adolphus: ‘The Articles of Assistance between the Fr: K. And the K: of Swede. 13. of January. 1631’ (Browne’s docket). Latin.

(o) Commentary on Cardinal Richlieu’s letter to the Queen Mother, signed ‘Le Pieux Historien’; 29 April 1631. French.

(p) Louis XIII to the Duc d’Orleans; 5 May 1631. Copy, with an extract in the same hand of the Register of the Council of State, 12 May 1631. French.

(q) Marie de Medici, Queen Mother, to Louis XIII, 24 May 1631. Copy. French.

(r) Declaration of Louis XIII rel. to the return of Marie de Medici from Compeigne; 25 May 1631. French.

(s) Don Carlo Coloma to Dr Chellison rel. to English catholics; Brussels, 20 May 1631. Notarised copy.Latin.

(t) Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden: Letters to Louis XIII and to Cardinal Richelieu; 17 Sept. 1630. Copies. Latin and French transl.

(u) Henri, Duc de Rohan: ‘Copie of Monsieur de Rohan his Letter’, outlining his thoughts on affairs in Europe; 1631. French.

(v) Memorial of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, to the parliament of Dijon (Burgundy); [1632]. French.

(w) ‘Copie Des Articles entre [les] Couronnes d’Ang[leterre] & de France, a[grées?] a St. Germains le [29] Mars. 1632. Pour la restitution’. Imperfect from paper damage. French. Accompanied by an extract, in Latin, from the power granted by Charles I to Wake, Greenwich, 29 June 1631.

(x) List of German states with notes of their Protestant or Catholic affiliations, etc.; 1632. French. Docketed ‘Division of Germany. P. Burl. [i.e. Philip Burlamachi]’.

(y) ‘Note of Bookes and Treaties’, mentioning ‘Youre Lordships relation of Swisserland’, ‘short Relation of Italy’ and ‘Propositions to the senate [of Venice] in behalfe of the king’; circa 1631-1632. Docket of Browne.

(z) ‘Responces aux demandes de Monsieur [Guillaume] de Caen’ regarding beaver exported from Canada by the brothers Kirk, etc.; n.d. [circa 1632]. French.