Add MS 78243

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXVI. Miscellaneous tracts, with some letters and verse; 1641-1642, n.d. Scribal copies, in the same French hand as the preceding volumes. Latin and French. With annotations by Browne and Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 168.

ff. 200. Contemporary binding of mottled calf, with monogram ‘REB’ on the spine, similar to the preceding volume. Watermarked with crowned fleur-de-lys in shield with pendent ‘M A’. Document in French and printed occur as binder’s waste inside front and back covers. 345 x 225mm.

The contents include:

1. ‘Abregé de l’Estat general de la Recepte & depense de tout le Royaume de France’; 1644. With a note by Evelyn referring to ‘another more large Account’.

2. ‘Relation des resolutions du Parlemt Thoulouse en suitte des desordres arriués a Villefranche’; June 1643.

3. ‘Manifeste pour la Justice des armes des Princes de la Paix. M.DC.XLI’.

4. ‘Les Commissaires deputés pour trauailler a la Reformation des habits, trains, jeus, festins &c ...’.

5. [Pierre Victor Palma Cayet attrib.]: ‘Le Diuorce Satyrique’; n.d. This and the following tract concern the amours of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Henri IV.

6. ‘La Ruelle mal assortie. Dialogue Satyrique’; n.d.

7. Three sets of French verses; 1593-1606.

8. Satirical elegies and epitaphs, etc., on Cardinal Richelieu, in verse and prose; 1642. Latin and French. Included are: (a) ‘Le Tableau de Gouuernement ou Eloge de Monsieur le Cardinal de Richelieu’: long poem in octosyllabic couplets, beg. ‘Peuples esleués des autels’; - (b) lapidary inscription, in Latin, beg. ‘Eminentissimi mortuorum Gloriosis Manibus’; - (c) two prose pieces entitled ‘Le principal & perpetuel Testament pour mon heritier vniuersel’, in French, and ‘Eminentissimo Cardinali Richelieu. Mysterium Politicum’, in Latin. For further items see Add. MS 78234.

9. ‘Articles accordes entre le Comte Duc [i.e. de Olivares], pour le Roi d’Espagne; Et le Sieur de Fontrailles [i.e. Louis d’Astarac, Vicomte de Fontrailles] pour & au nom de Monsieur a Madrid le 13^e Mars 1642’.

10. ‘Arrest contre Monsieur. 1642’. Title and date added in Browne’s hand.

11. Two speeches made by Pierre Scarron at Valence to Louis XIII, 25 Feb., and to Cardinal Richelieu, 26 Feb. 1642.

12. ‘Lettre de consolation a la Reine sur la mort du Cardinal Infant [Ferdinand of Hapsburg]’; Nov. 1641.

13. ‘Lettre de remerciement a la Reine de son portrait, & de Messeigneurs le Dauphin et d’Anjou’.

14. Documents relating to the peace conference at Osnaburg: (a) Johann Adler Salvius, Swedish diplomat, and Claude de Mesmes, Comte d’Avaux: documents, in Latin, 15/25 Dec. 1641; - (b) letter of Christian IV of Denmark to Claude de Mesmes, 9 Dec. 1641, with reply, 1 Jan. 1642; – (c) ‘Aduis important Sur l’occurrence & disposition des affaires, presente a S.E. le [blank] Avril 1641’; - (d) ‘Traité fait entre le Roi de France Tres Chrestien Louis XIII. Et les Srs Princes Maurice Cardinal & Thomas de Sauoye. 1642’; 1 July 1642.

15. Series of documents rel. to the treaty concluded between France and the United Provinces at The Hague, 15 April 1634.

16. ‘Estat general des gages, appointemens & pensions que le Roi veut & ordonne estre paiees…aux Princes, Princesses, Dames & Officiers de la Couronne…durant la presente annee Mil six cens quarante deux’; 20 Jan. 1642.

17. ‘Erection de Duche et Pairrie en faueur du Prince de Monaco …’; 1642.

18. Proceedings and interrogations in the case of M. de Thou; Sept. 1642.

19. ‘Scauoir si pour le bien de la France Il est expedient de rompre a present entieremt le traffic auec les Anglois’.