Add MS 78650

Evelyn Papers. Vol. cccclxxxiii. `A Remonstrance Delivered to his Majestie in writinge after the Inhibition given by him to the Lower house of Parliament as well by wordes of Mouth as by Letters, nott to proceede in Examininge his Right to Impose [import and export duties] without assent of Parliamente’; early 17<sup>th</sup> cent. Copy in a contemporary secretary hand. With the name `Robt Offley’ on the fly-leaf in an italic hand which resembles that of the title; the body of the work is written in a single secretary hand which may be that of the same person. Mary, second wife of Evelyn’s elder brother George, was the daughter of Sir Robert Offley; her brother Robert Offley was buried at Wotton in 1663. Annotated by Evelyn on the fly-leaf `10 Law’; `Bundle X’ in the library catalogue of 1687, Add. MS 78632, f. 208v, is described as containing `Papers concerning Law matters’; the present item is not listed amongst them but may have been a later addition from his brother’s collection at Wotton. Formerly Evelyn MS 175.

ff. 49. 305 x 205mm.