Add MS 78227

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LX. (ff. 168). Legal documents relating to Browne’s personal affairs; 1640-1681, n.d. Partly French. Included are:-

1. Papers relating to suits for debt brought against Browne by Pierre Chevreuil, butcher of Paris, etc.; 26 Oct. 1654-30 Feb. 1655. French. Partly vellum. ff. 67. Included are:

(a) ‘Information Pour Pierre Chevreuil Marchant Boucher a paris demandeur et Compleignant Contre Richard Broune deffendeur et accusé’ for a debt of 368 livres and 18 sous; 7 Jan. 1655 N.S. French. Included are depositions by Sir George Radcliffe, Guillaume Paradin and Browne’s servant Anne Cassel (later Mme. Paradin). Formerly sewn together at the foot are two related documents, partly vellum.

(b) List of tapestries belonging to Browne that were distrained towards payment of Browne’s debts to Chevreuil following sentences of the courts; 8 May 1655 N.S. French. Signed in three places by the court bailiff Andre Maurice, ‘huissier sergent a verge’ in the Grand Chatelet of Paris. 380 mm. x 248 mm.

2. ff. 46. Legal and other papers relating to the will of John Langton, English merchant, 1650-1663, 1672, and to the affairs of John Pretyman as administrator of the will of John Farrington, circa 1665-after 1675. Partly copies. Partly French. ff. 38.

(a) Will of John Langton, with later material relating to its execution, 20 April 1650-10 Sept. 1663, including two notarised translations of documents into English, 12 Nov. 1672. Langton, residual heir of his brother Robert, died in France, leaving as his executor Samuel Camby, who granted Browne power of attorney in March 1649/50.

(b) ‘Memoire de l’affaire de M. [Laurence] Grin [i.e. Greene]’, etc.; after 27 Jan. 1642 and 2 June 1660. French. Greene, a London merchant, died in Paris in 1654 (see P.C.C. wills 1654, 159), having borrowed money from Robert Langton to pursue a claim against Philippe de Harlay, Comte de Cézy, French ambassador in Constantinople. See further mention of the Cézy suit in letters of René Augier, 10 Apr.-3 Aug. 1646 passim and 12 Feb. 1648 in Add. MS 4200, ff.13-27, 66.

3. ff. 34. Miscellaneous legal documents and bonds; 1640-1681. Including, in addition to bonds:

(a) Contract between Richard Browne and George Blackhall of Exeter, ‘ordinary [?] of his Maties Body’, for investigating the setting up of monts de piété, or banks, in London; 8 Dec. 1641.

(b) Memoir of Browne to Louis XV and his council complaining of the imprisonment of his servant and the theft of his sheep by the Bailiff of St Germains; n.d. [circa 1641-1660]. Copy. French.

(c) ‘Arrest de Reparation’ issued by Louis Seguier, Baron de St. Brisson, Provost of Paris, on a complaint made by Browne against Melchior Damoiseau, ‘sergan au baillage’ of Fort l’Eveque, following a incident of 29 Aug. involving Browne’s carriage on the Pont Neuf; 22 Sept. 1643. Vellum and paper.