Add MS 78206

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXIX (ff. 167). Miscellaneous papers rel. to European politics and diplomacy, including the Palatinate question, etc.; 1639-1660, and undated. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. Many of the papers which relate to negotiations for the restoration of the Elector Palatine originate with Sir Thomas Roe and (Sir) William Curtius. Roe (d. Nov. 1644) was English ambassador extraordinary to the conference held at Hamburg for a general peace, Apr. 1638-June 1640, and to the diet of Ratisbone and the Emperor at Vienna, March 1641-Sept. 1642. Cf. Add. MS 4172, ff. 159-198, for letters of and documents sent by him to Browne, Sept. 1641-Oct. 1643, that are preserved among Roe’s letter-books in Add. MSS 4168-4172: three others, 14 June-4 Oct. 1643, are now Add. MS 15857, ff. 89-94. William Curtius served Charles I and II as, intermittently, agent to the German states, 17 Sept. 1639-1658, attending the imperial diets (at Nuremburg) late in 1639, and in 1642 and 1649. For the newsletters which he sent to Browne from Frankfurt, May 1643-Dec. 1647, see Add. MSS 15856 and 78190 above.

1. Letters of Charles I to various of the Prince Electors and others; 25 Oct. 1639-9 Dec. 1640. Copies. Latin.

2. Treaty between France and Sweden; 30 June 1641. Two copies. Latin.

3. Copy of the Holy Roman Emperor’s resolution concerning the Palatinate question, given to Sir Thomas Roe; 30 Aug. 1641. Latin.

4. Henri, 5^th Duke of Guise: ‘Memoire comme les benefices du Duc de Guyse de 450[m livres] de reuenue ont este distribues’, with names of those who obtained them’; circa Sept.-Nov. 1641. French. With additions and docket in hand of Browne.

5. Letter from the Swedish legate to the Imperial legate; 31 Oct. 1641. Copy. Latin.

6. Sir Thomas Roe’s petition at Vienna concerning the Palatinate question; 9/19 Nov. 1641. Copy.Latin.

7. Sir Thomas Roe, ‘The heads of my conference with the mediators’, 28 Dec. 1641, with ‘The mediators answere’, 4/14 Jan. 1642. Copies, docketed by Rowe. Latin.

8. ‘Projet et Propositions des Hessois etc. au Traite de Goslar; 1641. Copy.Latin.

9. Two sets of propositions by Sir Thomas Roe to the deputies appointed for settling the affair of the Palatinate, Vienna, 11/21 March, 23 July 1642, with ‘The Emperor’s last answere’, 6 May 1642. Copies. Latin.

10. ‘Lettres d’Abolition au Duc de Bouillon, L’an 1642. Au Mois de Septembre’. Copy. French.

11. Extracts, partly in the hand of Browne, from the will of Cardinal Richelieu; circa but after 4 Dec. 1642. French.

12. Prophecy of [Jacques] Mengau, described as ‘avocat de Besiers en languedoc’; circa Dec. 1642. French, docketed in English as delivered 10 Dec. 1642.

13. Equipment necessary for a force of artillery comprising 6000 horse and 12000 infantry ; 26 Dec. 1642. Copy. French.

14. Anonymous tract addressed to [Philip IV] rel. to the ‘separation de Conde Ducque’ [de Olivares]; circa Jan. 1643. Spanish. Beg. ‘Haviendo reconoscido V. Mag^d.’

15. ‘Extrait de la Proposition de Baviere faite aux Estats a Donauworth’; 19/29 Jan. 1643. French.

16. ‘Essame delli Interesse del Duca di Baviera’; n.d., circa Jan. 1643 (date from wmk). Italian.

17. ‘Praefatio Bavarica, Declarationi prius editae noviter (mense Januario) Francofurti praefixa’; circa Jan. 1643. Copy. Latin.

18. Letters from London to Count Trautmansdorf and the Bishop of Wurtzburg, rel. to the Palatinate; 10/20 Feb. 1643. Copies. Italian and French.

19. Extract from the proposals made by the ambassadors of the Emperor at Frankfort; 11/21 Feb. 1643. French.

20. Extract of a letter from the Bavarian general Mercy camped at Hechingen; 12/22 Feb. [1643?].

21. Answer of [Maximilian I] Duke of Bavaria to the Imperial ambassador concerning the restitution of the Palatinate; [circa Oct. 1643]. Two copies. Latin.

22. Petition of Matthieu Sauvage, almoner to the late Marie de Medici, for his expenses, 1 Jan. 1641-9 Mar. 1643. French.

23. ‘The King of Spain’s Decreto’; April 1643. Spanish. Copy.

24. Extract of the proceedings of the Diet of the Circle of Suebia’; 12/22 April 1643. French.

25. Note relating to the establishment of a council to consider the coronation of Anne of Austria, Regent of France; 1643 [after Apr.].

26. Newsletter written from the French court to ‘Votre Altesse’; May-June 1643. French.

27. Memorials of Browne to the Queen Regent about the Palatinate affair; June-July 1643. Drafts and copies. French. Including a ‘Memoire presenté a Messieurs les Ministres d’Estat’.

28. André Paul, [?Privy Councillor to the Elector Palatine]: ‘Monsieur Paul’s Memoire’, directed to Browne, for representations to the Queen Regent rel. to the restoration of the Palatinate; [circa 1643-1645].

29. ‘La Charité Francoise composée par vn Gentilhomme Anglois’ relating to the embassy of the Prince d’Harcourt to England in Sept. 1643-Jan. 1644; [1644]. French.

30. Charles III de Lorraine, Prince d’Harcourt, ambassador extraordinary to England [Sept. 1643-Jan. 1644]: Proposition made to the Earl of Northumberland for mediation between Charles I and Parliament by the French king; circa Nov. 1643. French.

31. ‘Relation de ce qui s’est passe a Poictou’ rel. to a request for removal of imposts on wine and cotton; [circa 1643?]. Copy, docketed by Browne. French.

32. Paper in hand of Browne, docketed ‘Intrigue Chavigny’; 15 Jan. 1644. French.

33. ‘Articles accordes par le Roy Treschrestien & Messrs le Estates des Prouinces Vnies’; 29 Feb. 1644. Copy. French.

34. Extract relating to the disgrace of Mme. de Hautefort, formerly mistress of Louis XIII, dated Paris, 22 April 1644. French.

35. Letter from Don Felipe de Silvas to the magistrates of Lerida; June 1644. Spanish. Copy.

36. Letter from Don Francisco de Mello; 5 July 1644. Copy. Spanish.

37. Swedish ambassador’s speech; 29 July 1644. Copy. Latin.

38. Relation of the triumphal entry of Philip IV into Lerida; [7] Aug. [1644]. Spanish.

39. Letter of Louis XIV to [‘Monsieur’] rel. to Cardinal Pamphilio, etc.; 11 Oct. 1644. Copy. French.

40. Newsletter from Munster 9/19 Nov. 1644. Copy. French.

41. Extract from the proposals made by the envoys of Louis XIV at Munster, in favour of the Elector of Trier; 4 Dec. 1644. French.

42. Paper docketed by Browne, ‘Memoire out of Germany; after. 1644. Copy.Latin.

43. List of deputies at Osnabruck; May 1645. Copy, with annotations by Browne. French.

44. Newsletter from Rome, 10 July 1645. Imperfect. Italian.

45. Letter of the Duchesse de Rohan to M. Rivett; 29 July 1645. Copy. French.

46. Document endorsed ‘Postulata Evangelicorum Exhibita Osnabrugae’; 16/26 Dec. 1645. Latin.

47. Reasons for the annulment of the marriage of the Duc de Guise and the Comtesse de Bossu; circa 1646.

48. Louis XIV and Anne of Austria: Opinion sent to Innocent X rel. to the dispute involving the Pope and Cardinals Antonio and Francesco Barberini; circa 1646. Copy, in hand of Browne. French.

49. Claude de Mesmes, Comte d’Avaux [and Abel Servien, Marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin]: ‘Harangue de Monsr D’Avuax a Messrs Les Estates &c’; [May 1647]. Copy.French. Cf. Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Francais, MS 24098, ‘Discours de Claude des Mesmes, Comte d’Avaux, et d’Abel Servien ... au sujet de la paix’.

50. Two letters to the Marquess of Grana and Cardinal Sandoval, taken in a Dutch prize; 21 Nov., 1 Dec. 1648. Spanish.

51. Patent of Louis XIV for the invention of a ‘water work’ by Etienne de Villebressieu; March 1652. Copy. Latin.

52. Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine: Letter to the Duc d’Orleans; Coloniers, 19 June 1652. French. Copy, in hand of Browne.

53. Relation of the capitulation of Dunkirk; 11 Sept. 1652. French.

54. Letters of English sovereigns, viz:- (a) James I to Ernest of Bavaria, Elector of Cologne, 7 Nov. 1604; - (b) Charles II to Charles Caspar, Archbishop of Trier, circa 16 June 1652 (see reply of that date in Clarendon SP, II, 137); - (c) William [VI], Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, n.d. (for one of 23 Dec. 1652, see Clarendon SP, II, 159). Partly drafts and copy in the hand of Browne. Mostly Latin.

55. The Polish ambassador’s speech to the King of Sweden; 20 Aug. 1655. Copy.Latin.

56. Letter to ‘Monseigneur’ [Cardinal Mazarin] rel. to [? French Huguenot faith], following the declaration of Saint-Germain on 18 July 1656. Copy. French.

57. Letters of Christina, Queen of Sweden, to the Duke of Guise who is to accompany her through France, 14 Aug. 1656, and an undated one of Guise to a friend, describing her. Copies, in hand of Browne. French.

58. ‘L’Arrest du Conseil du 6^me Sep^re 1657. Contre la Ville de Marsailles [sic]. &tc. Par le payement de 550^m livres’ (docket of Browne).

59. Proceedings of Louis XIV with regard to divisions in the principality of Orange; Mar. 1660. Copies. French.

60. Undated items, mostly in French, including: - (a) Speech to the Venetian senate by President Maillé, French ambassador; - (b) Strategy ‘Pour battre deux cents Chevaux avec 20 Chevaux & 50 Mousquetaires’; - (c) Brief prayer subscribed ‘Flaminio Novarese’. Printed. Latin; - (d) ‘Liste des Grand Chambriers’ in Browne’s hand; - (e) Browne’s draft of verses, in Latin, possibly to his wife.