Add MS 78202

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXV (ff. 130). Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly relating to the embassies of John, Viscount Scudamore, and Robert, Earl of Leicester, in France; 1631-1644. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian.

1. Miscellaneous letters and papers; 1633-circa 1640. ff. 48. Including:

(a) Itinerary of Charles I’s journey to Scotland, May-June 1633.

(b) Itemised bill for extraordinary expenses for Scudamore’s journey to Paris and his audience with Louis XIII; circa Aug. 1635. Copy, with notes and docket in Browne’s hand.

(c) ‘Memoire Concerninge the Ld. Viscount Scudamore his Audience and Entry into Paris. Aug.: 1635’ [i.e. 26 Aug./5 Sept. 1635], docketed by Browne with details of Court etiquette; n.d.

(d) Summary of treaty between France and the Duke of Savoy; 1635. French.

(e) ‘Exceptions against [Scipion] Dupleix’: contentious passages, with page-references, from his Histoire de Louis le Juste (1633), relating to the proposed match between the Prince of Wales and ‘Madame Chrestienne seur [puisnes added] du Roy’ and to the treaty sought by the English; n.d. Two copies, one with corrections. French.

(f) ‘Memoire des differents entre les deux Couronnes’ of England and France, relating to merchant shipping; Paris, 15 Feb. 1635/6.

(g) Copy and extract of letters of Count Axel Oxenstierna, Chancellor of Sweden; March 1636. Latin.

(h) Speech of Joseph Avery to Chancellor Oxenstierna; 3 June 1636. Latin.

(i) Copy of a postal treaty between England and France; 14 July 1636. French.

(j) Johann Adler Salvius, Swedish diplomat, to --, from Hamburg, [29 Sept.] 1636. Copy. Latin.

(k) ‘Propositions concerninge the Palatinate’; 1636. Italian. Directed at head ‘Per francia’.

(l) Letter of ‘H: H:’ to Gilbert Talbot [at Venice], mentioning Leicester, the writer’s patron, Selden’s Mare Clausum, Walter Montagu and ‘Suavius noster’; 18 Jan. [?1636]. Latin.

(m) ‘Prerogatives des Ambassadeurs des Roys sur ceux des autres Princes et Republiques’, in Browne’s hand; aft. 1737. French.

(n) List of the King’s ships appointed by Admiralty warrant; 31 Jan. 1637/8.

(o) Document beg. ‘La Mort de Monsieur de Criqui trouble grandement La Cour’; 26 March [1638], relating to Charles I de Blanchefort, Duc de Lesdiguières, marshal of France, who d. 17 March 1638. French.

(p) Key to the cipher between the Earl of Leicester and Sir Arthur Hopton; n.d. [circa 1638-1641]

(q) ‘A note of what we are damnified by the French’, relating to English merchant shipping, addressed to a secretary of the Earl of Leicester; [1640?].

(r) Draft memorial of Browne to [Cardinal Richelieu] on behalf of the English Ambassador, for an answer to propositions for restoration of the Elector Palatine; [circa May 1636-Sept. 1641].

(s) Lists and memoranda relating to English galley slaves at Marseilles; circa 1641. French.

(t) Note from the Sieur de Saint Hubert to the English ambassador, offering his services; [circa 1632- 1641]. French.

2. Series of newsletters; circa 2 Aug.-25 Nov. 1636, Feb. 1637. Copies or extracts. French and Italian. The individual leaves or bifolia, most of which are copied in a single hand, comprise news from several continental towns and cities. Several bear directions ‘A monsieur Monsieur Broune [and le Secretaire]’. That headed from Basle on 10 Nov. ends ‘Si vous me ferez part de [?les] nouvelles de Bruxelles vous m’obligerez’. Some of the passages have been marked in the margin by Browne with consecutive series of numbers. Transcribed mostly on a single stock of paper watermarked with a crowned horn-in-shield above the letters MC and arranged by latest date in each. ff. 42

3. Papers, partly legal, relating to recovery of sums outstanding from the second portion of the dowry of Queen Henrietta Maria; 1631-1644. Partly copies. French and Italian. Credentials for the purpose (see draft in Add. MS 72429, f. 14) having been issued by Charles I to Philip Burlamachi in Feb. 1631, the business was actively prosecuted under Scudamore and Leicester, and a further commission (Add. MS 78204, below) was issued to Browne in July 1642. See also the letters of Burlamachi, 1637-1645, to Browne in Add. MS 78189 above and to Leicester in Add. MS 15857, ff. 163-169, 1637-1638. ff. 31. As follows:

(a) Philip Burlamachi: (i) Account of attempts made from 1631 to circa Feb. 1636 to recover the sums; n.d. (possibly encl. in Burlamachi’s letter of 20 July OS 1637). French; - (ii) Statement of the contracts made for the payment of interest on the dowry, etc., by 20 Aug. 1635, involving René Augier; circa 1643-1644. French; - (iii) Note of sums outstanding from the dowry; 11 May 1643. Copy, in Italian, with postscript, in French, in the hand of Burlamachi. All the above are copies in the hand of a secretary of Burlamachi; see letters in Add. MS 15857, ff. 163, 165, 169, and the report of circa Dec. 1639 in Add. MS 15858, ff. 201-203, docketed by Thomas Cantarini, banker of Paris, as being delivered to Secretary Windebank.

(b) Two lists of papers relating to the affair, viz: - (i) ‘Inventaire de pieces concernant le restant des deniers de la dot de la Royne de la G. Br: qui sont en mains des S^rs de Guenegault [Gabriel de Guénégaud, Trésorier de l’Épargne] & [François] Petit’; circa 6 Feb. 1640. French. Docketed in an unidentified hand ‘Inuentaire des pieces que j’ay laisses a...le Comte de Leycester a Paris 1640’; - (ii) ‘Certain peeces, and theyr Inuentary, Concerning the Remainder of the Queenes portion. Deliuered into me by M^r Augier 6/16 June 1640’ (docket in hand of Leicester). French.

(c) Louis XIV: Arrêt, citing an order of Aug. 1637 to Cantarini for restitution to Browne of 2800 livres, and mentioning the wife of Sieur Georges Lebret and Marie de la Croix [i.e. Marie de Guénégaud (d. Jan. 1655), née de la Croix, widow of Gabriel, trésorier de l’Épargne (d. Feb. 1638)] and [Philip/Jehan] Burlamachi; 1 June 1644. Copy, with draft of same bearing note in hand of Browne dated 1 June 164[4], a secretarial draft, with revisions in hand of Browne, of the arrêt of [? 4 June 1644], and a ‘Signification’ of the arrêt of 4 June 1644.

(d) ‘Memoire des frais faicts pour Monsieur Le Resident d’Angleterre pour recevoir les arrerages des trois Rentes appartenant au Roy De La grande Bretagne a prendre sur Les ayes Nouvelles de france’, July 1638-Aug. 1644, with signed attestation by ‘Forestier’; 15 Sept. 1644. Two copies, one with signed note and docket by Cantarini. French. This document relates to the arrêt of June 1644 which terminates the ‘longe dependinge suite for recovery of a remainder of H[enrietta] M[aria]’s portion-money longe since deposited here’, out of which ten years before had been bought these ‘rents or perpetuity’. See also Add. MSS 78204, below, and 15944, f. 43, for a memoire of Claude Voille, advocate in the Paris Parliament, relating to the arrears; n.d.

(e) ‘Acte ou Contract de delivrance Reciproque entre Madame de Guenegault [i.e. Guénégaud] & le Sieur Resident Browne’; circa 6 Aug. 1644. Title from docket. ff. 10.

(f) Fragments recording payments to Cantarini, Claude Voille, Forrestier and others; 1644, n.d.

(g) Louis XIV: Arrêt for referral of a request by Browne relating to Thomas Cantarini and Marie de la Croix; 27 Aug. 1644. Extracted from the register of the Council of State. Vellum.