Add MS 78277

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CX (ff. 56). Miscellaneous papers of Richard Evelyn, chiefly financial; 1617-1640.

1. ff. 1-8. Transactions between Sir Richard Sondes and Richard Evelyn concerning the payment of a debt, including a [italics]draft[/italics] letter and notes of Evelyn; 1617-1618.

2. ff. 9-14. Estimate and contracts with carpenter and bricklayer for a house to be built by George Evelyn at West Deane, co. Wilt.; 1623. George Evelyn, named overseer of Richard Evelyn's will of 1627 below, was described there as his `specyall good Friend & Cossen'.

3. ff. 15-16. Notes by Richard Evelyn of amounts given to his wife for housekeeping; 1623-1626.

4. ff. 17-21. Will of Richard Evelyn; 1627. [italics]Autograph[/italics], [italics]signed[/italics] on every page and [italics]sealed[/italics], with later additions and deletions.

5. ff. 22-27. [italics]By the King. A Proclamation for reforming sundry inconveniences touching the Coynes of this Realme[/italics]; 1619. [italics]Printed[/italics], with MS notes by Richard Evelyn, aft. 1627.

6. ff. 28-33. `A Treatice of Sr Ro[bert] Co[tton] presented to the Lords of his Mat privy Councell. The danger wherein the kingdome of England now stands and the Remedie thereof’; Feb. 1627/8. [italics]Copy[/italics], endorsed in what appears to be the hand of Richard Evelyn and also by Evelyn the diarist. Formerly Evelyn MS 291. For further copies, see Sloane MSS 757, 826, 1455, 2531, Add. MSS 4106, 33469, 34312, Stowe MSS 145 and 156.

7. ff. 34-56. Notes by Richard Evelyn of estate income and expenses, excluding rents: mowing, pasturing hogs, felling timber, hedging and ditching, walling, brick-making, threshing, etc.; 1625-1640. Partly autograph. Many individuals are named, including Daniel Peter (Peeter), a tenant farmer whose wife was John Evelyn’s wet-nurse.