Add MS 78257

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XC (ff. 174). Letters to, and papers of Long; 1646, 1648-1650, n.d.

1. Newsletters to Long from Sir Richard Browne in Paris, aft. 10 May- 7 Aug. 1648, n.d. Partly autograph and imperfect. For further letters, 1647-1650, originally part of this sequence, see Add. MS 15858, ff. 56-60.

2. Newsletters to Long from Sir William Curtius; 12 Mar. 1648-17 Apr. 1649, n.d. French.

3. Letters to Long; Sept. 1648-Aug. 1649, n.d. Partly French. The writers include Elizabeth, Lady Kinalmeaky (List 1, No. 170), Thomas Fisher, Robert Bargrave, Martin de Reus, John Webster, Sir Francis Doddington, Arnoul de Lisle, Sir John Grenville.

4. Miscellaneous letters bearing dockets by Long; 31 Aug.-7 Dec. 1648.

5. Naval papers; circa Sept. 1648-14 Aug. 1649, n.d. Including: (a) Oath taken by seamen under Capt. Philip Marshall to serve the King and Prince in the present action against the Earl of Warwick; [?Sept. 1648]. Signed by 49 sailors (List 1, No. 97); - (b) ‘The names of such Shippes as attend his Highness the Prince, now riding att Helford Sluce’; [? Sept. 1648]; - (c) Proposition of Martin de Reus of Rotterdam, for supplying canon to the fleet of Charles II at Helvetsluys, 3 June 1649, with a note of progress. French; - (d) Recommendation by Faithful Fortescue addressed to Thomas Bray, gentleman of the bedchamber, for a commission to Robert Evans to fit out a man of war; Calais, 14 Aug. 1649; - (e) Proposition of M. Wicquefort, ‘Recommended to Prince Rupert’ partly rel to the East Indies fleet due in London; 16 Feb. n.y; - (f) ‘His Majesties Allowance at Sea for [Capt. Diamond and his] 31. Men two Months’, n.d.; - (g) Memoranda of Long relating to ships’ cargoes seized at Amsterdam, etc.; n.d.; - (h) expenses in connection with supplies; 1648; - (i) ‘A list of the Shipps pro Anno 1649’, comprising 63 vessels of which 31 are marked as having been victualled at London, with numbers of men and days in service; 13 Feb.-4 Sept. 1649; - (j) ‘A note of Officers and Gentlemen that haue formerly serued the Kinge of England and desyres soe to Continue in the same seruice’; n.d. Endorsed by Long, ‘last list of souldyers’ (List 1, No. 88).

6. Miscellaneous papers: (a) safe-conduct from John Nelsonn for Thomas ‘Rarber’ to Canterbury, Dover Castle, 16 Jan.1648/9; - (b) memoranda of business letters to be written on behalf of Charles II, etc.; n.d.; - (c) ‘oath of a priuy councellor as sett out by Sir Edward Cooke’ (title from docket of Long); n.d.

7. Papers rel. to revenue: (a) warrant to the Sheriff of York to seize the new lodge in the forest of Galtrees that was delivered to Long as receiver of recusant revenues in southern England in 1639, on account of a debt owed to the King, 17 Feb. 1646. Copy; - (b) note of the revenues of Henrietta Maria in Devon and Cornwall, with annotations by Long, n.d.; - (c) list of ‘Offices and advowsons of the Dutchy of Cornewall from Mr Piper’, with notes by Long, n.d.; - (d) list of ‘Officers of the dutchy of Cornewall from Mr Paddon’, with notes by Long, n.d.; - (e) ‘Certificate of the Revenewe which was his Majesties when he was Prince’; after Jan. 1649; - (f) memorandum to enquire who has the place of Controller of the Customs in Cornwall following the death of Richard Dean, with docket and note by Long, n.d.

8. Household papers of Charles II; 1647-1650. Including: (a) expenses of, and officers belonging to the Princes’s stables, 1648, n.d.; - (b) lists, etc., of his household servants; 21 June 1648-31 July 1649; - (c) miscellaneous bills, bonds and lists of disbursements; 1645-1650.