Add MS 78263

Outsize documents.

78263. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCVI. Outsize papers of Sir Richard Browne, etc.; 1539, 1623-1678, n.d. Partly copy, draft, printed, and signed. Partly Latin and French.

1. From Add. MSS 78201, 78202:

(a) Safe-conduct by Christian IV, King of Denmark, for Jacques [Coppequesne, Seigneur] de Friville to travel to the French Court; 14 Apr. 1623. Latin. Signed by the king. Circular armorial papered seal. ff. 2. Cf. a letter of credence for Friville, 30 Oct. 1625, in Add. MS 78201. Latin. Signed by the king. Papered seal.

(b) ‘Articles de Paix entre les deux Couronnes de France, et d’Angleterre, l’an 1629’; 20 May, 6/16 Sept. 1629. French. Annotated in hand of Browne. ff. 2

(c) Passport by the Archduke Isabella for Richard Browne, ‘Gentilhomme de la bouche du Ducq de Savoye’ to travel through the Low Countries to England, valid for four months; Brussels, 12 June 1630. Signed by Isabella and countersigned ‘della faille’. French. Oval armorial papered seal. f. 1.

(d) Style and title of John, 1st Viscount Scudamore, as Ambassador from Charles I to Louis XIII of France, 1635. Printed Cf. STC sub ‘England’ for other contemporary examples.

(e) ‘Estat du fonds que Le Roy veult et ordonne estre fourny par le Tresorier de L’espargne…pour le payment d’un mois de montre aux trouppes…commandée par le S^r duc de la Force…’; 1636. Copy. French. ff. 4.

2. From Add. MS 78205.

(a) Heads of the speech made by Charles I to Parliament; 28 Apr. 1641. Copy. Docketed by Evelyn ‘Bundle II’. ff. 2.

(b) Proclamation of Charles I announcing a treaty with John IV of Portugal; 22 May 1642. Printed. Docketed on verso by Browne, ‘Portugall Proclamation’.

3. From Add. MS 78206.

(a) Louis XIII: ‘Declaration Pour la Regence de la Reyne [Anne of Austria]. 21. Avril. 1643’ (docket). Copy. French. Docketed by Evelyn ‘Bund: III’. ff. 4.

(b) Bond by Browne for payment to le Sieur Huguenot, secretary of [?Henri] de Guénégaud, Sieur du Plessis-Belleville, royal counsellor, of 1500 livres, and mentioning Mme. de Guénégaud and [Thomas] Cantarini; 20 April 1644. French. Signed by both parties. ff. 2.

(c) A ‘reconoissance du sieur Cantariny [i.e. Thomas Cantarini] pour la reception des quittances de la somme de [600 livres] en vertu de l’arrest’ (docket); 1 July 1644. French. Signed by, amongst others, Cantarini and Browne. ff. 2.

(d) The ‘reconaissance du Sieur Voille des quittances pour la somme de [600 livres] en vertu de larrest’ (docket); 1 July 1644. French. Signed by, among others, Claude Voille, advocate of the parliament of Paris, and Browne. ff. 2.

(e) ‘Acte du Renouvelement des Alliances entre les deux Couronnes &ct. le 3^me Juillet 1644’. ff. 2.

(f) ‘Compte de ce quy est deub a Jacques Marchays [Marchais] marchand a paris pour le retour de la lettre de change de 1000^ll Ste[rlings] tirée a paris le 5^e octobre 1644 ...’, with a copy of the ‘lettre de Change’ signed by Lord Goring; 7 Dec. 1644. French. Relates to munitions for Charles I. ff. 2.

(g) Bond by Laurence Greene in £5000, in the affair of the Comte de Cézy, mentioning Browne, Edmund Warcupp and the poet Edmund Waller; Paris, 21 June 1647. French. Signed by, amongst others, Greene and Waller. ff. 2.

4. From Add. MS 78207: Petition submitted by Browne to Louis XIV and to Anne of Austria as superintendent of navigation and commerce rel. to claims made by the English parliament, through their agent René Augier, for the restitution of English vessels and goods taken by royalists; circa 10 July 1647-Jan. 1649. Imperfect at end, comprising 11 numbered pages. ff. 11.

5. From Add. MS 78215.

(a) ‘An Appeale made to A Courte of Assistants at the Fishmongers hall By the trade & mistery of fishmongers London: January: 2: 1664[/5?]’. Formerly Evelyn MS 271. With six further petitions and additional documents; circa Oct. 1663-May 1664.

(b) Petition of northern clothiers to the King rel. to prohibition by Scots parliament of transport of clothes from England; n.d. [temp. Restoration]. Signed by 313 tradesmen. ff. 5.

6. From Add. MS 78226:

(a) Indenture between Christopher Browne and Richard Browne granting of all the goods of the first to the second party in consideration of an annuity of £120 to be payed to Christopher and his wife during their lives; 8 July 1633. Fair copy with revisions. ff. 4.

(b) Will of Sir John Pretyman of Driffield; 3 Dec. 1638. Copy. Pretyman was Browne’s father-in-law. ff. 3.

(c) ‘Inventaire faict le 21 8^bre 1654 des meubles de monsieur Le Residanst dangletaire’. French. ff. 2.

(d) Answer of Browne to a bill of complaint by Henry Robinson relating to a portion of the debt formerly owed by Laurence Greene to Robert Langton; circa 1672. Draft, with autograph additions by Browne.

(e) ‘A Copie of an Act of Parliament touching the payment of the Constables fee of Dovor [Dover] Castle &^c; 28 April 31 Henry VIII [1539]. Copy, 17^th cent., numbered ‘26’ on the docket.