Add MS 78238

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXI. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘The relation of s^r Balthasar Gerbier Knight, Master of Ceremonies to the king of great Britain, For the Cleering of some particullars which haue by some been misunderstood, during the Raignes of king James, and king Charles’; Paris, 25 June 1648. Fair copy in two scribal hands, the preface signed by Gerbier. This defence of his former employer, George Villiers, 1^st Duke of Buckingham, is prefaced by a dedication to Charles II when Prince of Wales, referring to a similar relation lately addressed by Gerbier to Henrietta Maria, in French, and opens with a ‘Table of the particullars contayned in this Relation’, with page-references added in another hand to the main text. For another manuscript, with dedication dated 26 June 1648 and table of contents at the end, see Add. MS 4181. Text (excluding preliminaries) paginated from 1 to 66. An anecdote relating to Sir Henry Wotton on f. 14v has been bracketed by a contemporary reader and marked ‘no’. Formerly Evelyn MS 7.

ff. ii+42. Contemporary binding (restored) of brown calf, gilt-stamped with two treble-ruled compartments, the inner one with filigree centrepiece and cornerpieces. 210 x 155mm.