Add MS 78205

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXVIII (ff. 159). Letters and papers relating to the civil war in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to English citizens abroad; 1641-1657. Mostly copies. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish.

1. Translation into French of the oath administered to Members of Parliament in Scotland; 12 Aug. 1641.

2. Charles I: ‘The Kings speech to the Parlament of Scotland the 17^th of August 1641’.

3. Extract from a letter from the Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin, 25 Oct. 1641. Printed (also as extract) in CSPIreland 1633-1647, pp. 342-3.

4. Answers of the Mayor and commonalty and the gentry of York to the propositions of Charles I of 30 April [1642]. Copies, in the same hand as 5, 8, 9, 17 below.

5. Bifolium comprising letters of Sir Thomas Roe to the Earl of Holland and Edmund Waller; 3 June 1642. Copies.

6. Reply of Parliament to Charles I; 26 July 1642. Copy.

7. Petition of the county of Denbigh to Charles I; 1 Aug. 1642. Copy.

8. Newsletter concerning the royalist army, dated from Shrewsbury; 11 Oct. 1642. Copy.

9. Message of both Houses of Parliament delivered by Sir Peter Killegrew to the King at Reading; 25 Nov. 1642. Copy.

10. The Solemn League and Covenant; [9 Feb. 1643]. Copy.

11. ‘Earle of Lothien his Negociation’: articles of agreement between Louis XIII and Sir William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian, for a regiment of Scots guards; circa Feb. 1642/3. Copy, with additions in Browne’s hand. French.

12. Contract between Louis XIII and James Campbell, Earl of Irvine, rel. to the formation of a regiment of Scots guards in the French service; 27 Feb. 1642/3. Copy. French.

13. Note by Browne of representations made to Louis XIV for rewarding Scots services to the French; 5/15 May 1643. French.

14. Two memorials by Sir William Boswell to the States General objecting to goods stolen by the rebels in London being taken to Holland and to the reception of Sir Walter Strickland as the parliament’s envoy; 7, 15 May 1643. Copies. French.

15. Commission of the Catholics of Ireland to Capt. Francis Olivers and answers to his propositions; 1643. Two copies.

16. Papers rel. to a suit brought by William, Lord (afterwards Earl) Craven, for the recovery of papers delivered to his servant Pierre Piagett, lately deceased; 16-23 May, 4, 5 June 1644. French. ff. 16/20. Prefaced is a set of instructions from Craven to Browne, 16 May 1644, in French, signed and bearing his red wax armorial seal.

17. Propositions of the Irish Catholics to be appended to their remonstrance in return for the grant of which they will contribute 10,000 men to suppress the rebellion; circa May 1644.

18. Letter from Charles I to Prince Rupert; 14 June 1644. Copy.

19. ‘Discharge for [Anne Stanhope] the Countesse of Clare hir tenne pistolls deposited. &c.’; 20 July 1644. French.

20. Charles I: Letter to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex; [Liskeard, 6 Aug. 1644]. Copy. With an account by John Richard, attested by Robert Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, of its delivery. The letter is printed in W. B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), II, pp. 427-8.

21. Articles of Lostwithiel between the royalist army and the Earl of Essex’s forces, Sept. 1644, with two letters of Lord George Digby on behalf of Charles I to Parliament concerning peace terms, 4 July, 8 Sept. 1644. Copies in a single hand.

22. Abstract of peace terms presented to Charles I at Oxford by the commissioners of Parliament, with his response; 24 Nov. 1644.

23. Instructions of the Earl of Montrose, the Lord Napier, and the lairds of Keer and Blackhall; of the Earl of Traquaire to Lieut.-Col. Stewart; with a ‘tablet’ or propositions from the King; and a request for confirmation of the acts of the last general assembly at Edinburgh; n.d. [?circa 1644].

24. ‘Copie of part of a Memoire presented to the Count of Brienne Jan. 1645’: memorial or ‘remonstrance’ to Louis XIV, through Henri Auguste de Loménie, Comte de Brienne, relating to French support for ‘Ceux de la Faction du Pretendu Parlement de Londres’, seeking suppression of pro-Parliamentary publications by the reformed churches there and mentioning ‘la Police Ecclesiastique’; n.d. French. Draft in hand of Browne, with two copies, one incorporating corrections by him. Together with some related ‘Propositions & Maximes de ceux de Londres touchant la Royaulte’, title added in Browne’s hand.

25. Letter from William, Lord Craven, to Thomas Webb, secretary to the Duke of Richmond; 20 Nov. 1645. Red wax signet seal.

26. ‘Memoire from Mon^r. de Kervidonay’ (Browne’s docket): Document relating to ‘30000 Livres pretendus’ of Henrietta Maria, mentioning ‘son assosié’ John Sambourn and her secretary Henry, Lord Jermyn; n.d. (after Sept. 1643). French.

27. Endymion Porter to the Duque de Amalfi; Paris, 21 Feb. 1646. Spanish.

28. Charles I: Letter to both Houses of Parliament; Oxford, 23 March 1645/6. Copy.

29. Sir Peter Richaut: Letter to ‘your Lordship’ rel. to securing money for the King from the state of Venice; March 1645/6. Copy.

30. ‘La lettre de capitaine de Meautr[ix]’, addressed ‘A son Altesse’ [?Charles, Prince of Wales], declaring his readiness to serve the king; Brest, 26 June 1646.

31. Newsletter of Browne giving an account of the reception of Henrietta Maria and Prince Charles by Louis XIV and the Queen Regent at Fontainebleau; 18 Aug. [1646]. Scribal draft, with autograph revisions.

32. ‘Copie of the Kinges answere to the Parl[iament] Propositions sent to Newcastle’ (scribal docket); [Aug. 1646]. Copy.

33. David Jenkins, Judge: Answer to the Committee of Examinations; 10 April 1647. Copy.

34. Louis XIV and Anne of Austria: Certification of French citizenship for Isaac Basire, a native of Rouen and son of the late Jean Basire, avocat; 24 April 1647. French. Signed by the King and countersigned by Loménie.

35. Charles I: Letter to Parliament, in answer to the propositions concerning religion; Holdenby; 12 May 1647. Copy.

36. Certificate concerning the effect of war on Dublin; 12 Sept. 1647. French. Draft in hand of Browne.

37. Louis XIV and Anne of Austria, regent of France: Warrant for the restoration of arms seized at Quimperlé to Sir William Godolphin; 14 Sept. 1647. Copy. French.

38. Sir Richard Browne: Safe-conduct for John Podmer to travel to Italy; 24 Feb. 1648. Latin.

39. Thomas Hobbes: Autograph proposals for persuading Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (Lord High Admiral Dec. 1642-Apr. 1645 and May 1648-Feb. 1649), to bring the English navy over to the King [Charles I]; n.d. (probably August 1648, when Prince of Wales wrote to him and sent Crofts to treat: see Clarendon, History, XI, pp. 69-70). Docketed by Browne ‘Propositions. E. of Warwick &ct. T.H.’.

40. Letter of Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, on behalf of the Committee of Estates of the Parliament of Scotland, to Charles, Prince of Wales; [The Downs, 16 Aug. 1648]. Copy, in hand of Browne scribe.

41. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: Declaration of his conduct rel. to debts owed to him by the French Queen Mother, with note of authentication, in French, signed by Debora van Kipp, Lady Catherine Gerbier, Charles Gerbier, etc., 7 Nov. 1648. Copy. Preceded by a related document of Jan. 1647.

42. Claude Saumaise to Abraham de Wicquefort, rel. to the execution of Charles I; Leyden, 17 Feb. 1648/9. Copy in hand of Browne. French. See Clarendon SP, II, p. 1.

43. ‘Memoire concerning Monsieur Augier’ presented by Browne to Sir Edward Nicholas; June 1649. French. Draft.

44. Louis XIV and Anne of Austria: Passport for Sir Arthur Slingsby to go into Holland by way of Flanders; 31 Aug. 1649. French.

45. Letter from anonymous English royalists to Jermyn at the Louvre, offering support to Charles II and seeking subsistence; 2 Dec. 1649. Copy, with two copies of a translation into French. Mentioned in despatch to Nicholas of 11 Dec. 1649, Add. MS 12186, f. 94.

46. ‘Instructions and Examinations taken at the Louvre On Sunday the fift day of December. &c. 1649’. French. With note in Browne’s hand of penalties fit for persons who have threatened Lord Jermyn with death unless he gives them money; circa Dec. 1649.

47. Charles II: Declaration at Breda, ‘Concerning the right of [Sir Edward Walker’s] being sent with the Order of the Garter’; 8 April 1650. Copy, docketed by Browne.

48. Engagement of the Marquess of Huntly and other Scottish nobles in favour of Charles II; 1650. Copy, docketed by Browne.

49. Articles between Admiral Robert Blake and Lieut.-Col. John Clarke, for Parliament, and Sir John Grenville, governor, for the King, for the surrender of the Scilly Isles; 23 May1651. Copy.

50. Sir William ‘Makdoel’ [i.e. Makdowell], Charles II’s agent at Rotterdam: ‘Raisons et motifs pour ne recognoistre La Puissance qui pour le present domine en Angleterre pour une Republique’; 1651. Docketed by Browne. French.

51. Louis XIV: Protection for John Richards, English Catholic, against the order for expulsion of the English from St Malo, with a safe conduct for travel in France; 15 Nov. 1651, 10 Jan. 1652. Copies. With ‘Factum du Procez & differend pendant au Conseil. Pour Jean Richards Anglois…’, a legal argument for restitution of goods and papers seized while he was living at St. Malo; aft. 10 Jan. 1652. French. Printed.

52. Letter of Louis XIV to Charles II solliciting a visit from him; Melun, 14 June 1652. Copy, in the hand of Browne. French. With note appended of a printed book entitled ‘Apologie du Roy d’Angleterre contre les injustes calumnies qu’on luy a imposées Avec la lettre du Roy envoyée a sa dit Majesté Britannique sur la subject de la paix’; Paris, 1652. For the original letter see Clarendon SP, II, p. 136.

53. Charles II to his brother Henry, Duke of Gloucester; Cologne, 10 Nov. 1654. Copy, docketed by Browne. Printed in Bray, IV, p. 203.

54. Charles II: Safe conduct for Capt. John Madin to travel in British domains, subscribed ‘Ed: Nicholas’; Cologne, 27 Oct. 1655. Copy, by Browne.

55. Letter of Ormonde to Dromore, 20 Sept. 1656, with copies of an exchange between Dromore and Mazarin, 3 Sept. 1656 and n.d., together with a order from Charles II to [Col. Mackarty and Sir James Darcy], 20 Aug. 1656. Copies. Partly French.

56. Speech of Ambassador Lockhart to Louis XIV; 16 Mar. 1657. Copy, in Browne’s hand. French.

57. Memoire of Henrietta Maria to the Comte de Brienne [Henri Auguste de Loménie] seeking protections from time to time for English exiles from their English creditors; n.d. [circa July 1651-1658]. Draft in hand of Browne. French.

58. ‘Memoire of Complaints against ye French Kings proceedings against the Kings party &c’ (docket, hand unidentified, with ‘B V’ added in Evelyn’s hand). Mentions Augier’s proceedings.

59. ‘A seditious position formerly omitted’, rel. to the lawfulness of rebellion by subjects formerly loyal to the crown; n.d.

60. List in Browne’s hand of ‘Offices in the Lord High Chancellor of England his guift’; n.d.