Add MS 78265

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCVIII (ff. 75). Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of Charles I, Charles II, and other members of the royal family; 1622-1663, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly French. Included are copies of letters of Charles I, royal warrants, and petitions to Charles II. As follows:-

1. Correspondence, etc., of Charles I, 1645-1646. Copies. Including: (a) petition to Charles from Prince Rupert and the garrison of Newark; [Oct. 1645]; - (b) two letters to Sir Henry Vane the younger, 2 Mar. 1646 and n.d., bearing autograph notes of certification by the King; - (c) Henrietta Maria: letters by and on behalf of, to Charles I; Paris, 3, 4 Feb. [1646?]. Scribal decipherments(?), with dockets by Nicholas. Partly French; - (d) letters of the King to Parliament, etc.; Newcastle, 18 May, 10 June 1646 and Holdenby, 6 March 1647; - (e) ‘Extract of the Kings Declaration … shewing the faults made in translating into French; 18 Jan. 1647/8; -(f) ‘His Majesties farewell speech vnto the Lords Commissioners at Newport in the Isle of Wight; 1 Dec. 1648. Copy, with docket by Nicholas.

2. Miscellaneous warrants, commissions, letters of credence, etc., of Charles I; 1625-1646, n.d. Mostly drafts and copies.

3. Miscellaneous correspondence of Charles II; 1649-1654. Partly copies. Partly French. Included is a discourse, in French, addressed to Charles II, signed ‘Herault’, on the restoration of monarchy and episcopacy in England; Beauvais, 12 March 1650. Apparently autograph. The author may be Louis Hérault (d.1682), exiled minister of the Walloon church in London and later canon of Canterbury; for his brother Isaac see Add. MS 78240 above.

4. Letters and commissions of James, Duke of York; 1650-1657. Copies, including a copy of a letter from his mother, Henrietta Maria, 10 Feb. 1651, printed by Beddard, loc. cit., p. 141.

5. Petitions and letters addressed to, and documents relating to Charles II, referred to Sir Edward Nicholas; 1660-1663, n.d. Including an original letter from Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, to Charles II, concerning the embarkation of Catherine of Braganza for England, Lisbon, 27 March 1662.