Add MS 78393

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXVI (ff. 79 + vi). Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs; 1660-1701.

1. ff. 1-4. [italics]Autograph draft[/italics] by Sir Thomas Clarges, 1664, written for insertion in Edward Phillips's continuation of Sir Richard Baker's [italics]Chronicle of the Kings of England[/italics] (1665), giving an account of Evelyn's negotiations with his former school-fellow, Sir Herbert Morley, at the Restoration and beg. `In the seven hundred and nineteenth page of this Hystory wee omitted to insert a very materiall negotiation …'. With a heading and endorsements on the wrapper by Evelyn; one of the endorsements reads, `Sir Thomas Clarges (Brother in Law to the Duke of Albemarle) his insertion what Concerned Mr Evelyn in Mr Philips's History of the Kings of England: Note that my Letter to Coll. Morly was not rightly copied, there is likewise too much sayd concerning me, which is better, & as it ought to be in second Impression'. Numbered `(13)' by Evelyn. The manuscript is printed in Bray, [italics]Diary and Correspondence[/italics], II, pp. See also Add. MS 78684, nos.128, 129 below; and notes by Esmond de Beer in[italics] Sussex Archaeological Collections[/italics], 78 (1937), pp. 177-183, and A. H. Nethercot in [italics]Huntington Library Quarterly[/italics], 1 (1938), pp. 439-446, in which is printed a further account by Evelyn, added to a copy of Baker's [italics]Chronicle[/italics] once owned by him. Formerly Evelyn MS 316.

2. ff. 5-9. `Accounte of what Passed betweene [me and?] Colonel Herbert Morley 1659.1660': a narrative by Evelyn in the form of a letter to `My Lord', incorporating a copy of his letter to Morley of 12 Jan. 1660; aft. 1660. [italics]Autograph draft[/italics]. The document is in two bifolia, hitherto separated accidentally in the archive; the first was conserved while it on deposit at Christ Church, the second being filed with Evelyn’s incoming correspondence. The former was accompanied by the address leaf of a letter from Lord Norwich to Sir Richard Browne, 1646 (f. 9), which may have been used as a wrapper. Evelyn also copied his letter to Morley of 12 Jan. 1660 into his letterbook, Add. MS 78298, ff. 99v-100, adding a lengthy note to it in a later hand.

3. ff. ff. 10-11. `A faithfull and impartial Narrative of w[ha]t pass'd at the Landing of the Swedish Ambassador', by Evelyn; 1661. Autograph fair copy, with first two paragraphs crossed through. Evelyn describes in his Diary, III, pp. 297-298, how Charles II commissioned him to write this narrative. With a note at the foot describing how he collected the information and an endorsement that copies were given to the French ambassador and deposited in the `paper office at White-hall' (now PRO SP 29/43/12; see Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1661-2, p. 105). See also Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, pp. 100-101, who notes that the narrative was published from the present manuscript in the first edition of Evelyn's diary, Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray (1818), II, pt. 1, pp. 349-355, and that versions were included in Phillips' edition of Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle, pp. 799-800, and in Biographica Britannica, 2nd edn. (1793), V, pp. 613-614. Beal EvJ 13. Formerly Evelyn MS 319.

4. ff. 12-15. Plans for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666 by Evelyn and Sir Christopher Wren respectively, the first headed `Londinum Redivivum Presented by me to His Majesty a Week after the Conflagration, together with a discourse now in the Paper Office', both engraved [by George Vertue] for the Society of Antiquaries; 1748. For the presentation of Evelyn's plan and discourse, see Diary, III, pp. 462-463. See also John Evelyn, London Revived, ed. E. S. de Beer (Oxford, 1938).

5. ff. 16-17. Pen and ink sketch plan of the fortifications and ships at anchor near Chatham, when the Dutch fleet invaded the Medway; 1667. Not in Evelyn's hand, but annotated by him in pencil, `Descent of the Dutch when they burnt our ships at Chatham 1666 [sic]'. For related plans by Evelyn, see Bodleian MS Rawl. A.195, f. 78 (Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, ed. Lord Braybrooke, 1825, II, pt, 2, between pp.12-13), and The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), p. 1209, and Plate 56 (29 June 1667).

6. ff. 18-20. Report by Evelyn to Charles II and James, Duke of York, concerning supplies of peat and turf adjacent to London during the blockade of the Thames by the Dutch fleet; [1667]. With an explanatory heading added by him in old age, `This was when we had War with Holland, & the supply of Sea Coale from New Castle was Interrupted . . .'. Autograph draft, incomplete, consisting of the first page only, with a signed extract from Evelyn's Sylva (1664) containing a recipe for mixing coal-dust and loam, with the note, `I desire his Majestie may be acquainted with this Paper'. See Diary, III, pp. 486-487, for this commission and experiments with his recipe. Beal EvJ 70. Formerly Evelyn MS 517. Accompanied (f. 120) by a possibly unrelated account of quantities of coal transported from Newcastle and Sunderland, 1658-1660.

6. ff. 21-26v. Translation of an account of the `Four Days' Battle' between the English and Dutch fleets in June 1666, taken from Nicolaas Witsen, Aeloude en hedendaegsche Scheeps-Bouw en Bestier (Amsterdam, 1671), and apparently supplied to Evelyn as material for his history of the Dutch War by Henry Oldenburg; 1671. In a clerical hand, with annotation and endorsement by Evelyn, `Mr Oldenburgs: (9)'. Beal EvJ 69. Formerly Evelyn MS 300.

7. ff. 27-43. Materials assembled by Evelyn in connection with his research for the history of the Dutch War, including (f. 27) a `Catalogue of Books & papers in order to the Hist: of the Dutch Warr brought with me up to London 16 Feb. 1672/3', a list of printed and manuscript sources headed, `Materia substrata pro bello Belgico Navalis' (f. 28v), chronological notes of events 1665-1667, apparently an index to his own notebooks (ff. 29-31); excerpts and notes from unidentified published works and copies of original documents; [circa 1670-1672?]. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin. Beal EvJ 71. Formerly Evelyn MS 545.

8. ff. 44-56. Documents deriving from Evelyn's service on the Council for Trade and Plantations; 1671-1674. Evelyn was appointed to the Council for Plantations, which had been revived in July 1670, in January 1671. In September 1672 the former Council of Trade was amalgamated with it, and it became the Council for Trade and Plantations. See in general Charles M. Andrews, British Committees, Commissions and Councils of Trade and Plantations 1622-1675 (Baltimore, 1908), 96-106, and R. P. Bieber, `The Plantation Councils of 1670-4’, English Historical Review, 40 (1925), 93-106, which discusses the manuscript journal of the Council's proceedings, now at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Evelyn also gives some details of proceedings in his Diary entries for the period. Consisting of: (a) ff. 44-51. Commissions for the Council of Foreign Plantations; 13 July 1670, 4 April 1671 Copies in a scribal hand, the second, by which Evelyn was added to the commission, has an addition to the endorsement by him. Formerly Evelyn MSS 403, 335; - (b) f. 52. Notes concerning colonial settlements in North America and Jamaica, headed `Extr: out of a Letter to Mr Evelyn'; 3 June 1671. Autograph. Beal EvJ 138. Formerly Evelyn MS 548; - (c) ff. 53-54. Memorial to the Council from Francis Moryson concerning Virginian tobacco; [1671?]. Formerly Evelyn MS 329; - (d) f. 55. Summons by the secretary, Benjamin Worsley, to Evelyn to a meeting of the Council; 6 May 1673. Formerly Evelyn MS 415; - (e) f. 56. Copy by Evelyn of an order by Danby as Lord Treasurer to the Auditor of the Exchequer for Evelyn to receive his salary as Commissioner for Trade and Plantations, 18 Dec. 1674, with Evelyn's notes of the Exchequer precedures and fees for receiving it; aft. 1674. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 528.

9. ff. 57-59. Proposals concerning the Navy, `A Project concerning Victualing his Mat[esty']s Navy', n.d., and `Mr Withers proposal which I presented to his Matie; 28 May 1673’ (see Diary, IV, p. 12), both endorsed by Evelyn. Formerly MS 278 and unnumbered.

10. ff. 60-69. [italics]Copies[/italics] in a single scribal hand relating to public affairs, consisting of parliamentary addresses, the King's responses, speeches and messages, Feb.-March 1673, and a memorial of the Dutch ambassador, 8 Sept. 1677. Incomplete and damaged, with some loss of text.

11. ff. 70-79. Papers of Evelyn concerning his treasurership of Greenwich Hospital; 1696-[1705?]. In a clerical hand with occasional [italics]autograph[/italics] annotations. Consisting of: (a) f. 69. List of subscriptions to the building; [1696?]. Formerly Evelyn MS 393; - (b) ff. 70-71. Resolutions of the committees; 20 Jan. 1696, 4 Nov. 1696. Formerly Evelyn MSS 395, 394; - (c) ff. 72-73. Abstract of Evelyn's account as treasurer, 1696-1701. Formerly Evelyn MS 392b(?); - (d) ff. 74-75. Summary of Evelyn's accounts as treasurer, 1696-1703. Formerly Evelyn MS 392a; - (e) ff. 76-77. Memorials of Evelyn and his son-in-law William Draper to the commissioners; [1705?]. Formerly Evelyn MSS 453, 375.