Add MS 78690

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXIII. Miscellaneous papers assembled by Upcott; 16th-18th cent. The provenance of all of the 66 documents is not clear, but some, probably the majority, have an Evelyn family provenance. Items 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 all belong to the papers of Sir Richard Browne, Kt and M.P. as servant to the Earl of Leicester in Add. MSS 78172-78185 above; item 9, copies of indentures relating to Deptford, 1589, almost certainly has a Browne provenance; a substantial group relating to Anglo-French relations in the 1630s may originally have been amongst the papers of Sir Richard Browne, Bart., in Add. MSS 78201-78203; others of the 1640s and 1650s either mention Browne or have endorsements in the hand of Evelyn or Browne and are likely to come from Browne’s papers in Add. MSS 78204-78209, or elsewhere in his archive; item 48 derives from the papers of Sir Robert Long in Add. MS 78256, which probably came to Browne as part of the papers of the Council of State; item 61 is a copy of Sir Henry Hobart’s account of the battle of the Boyne, 1690, in the hand of John Evelyn junior. With a preliminary but incomplete list of the individual documents, partly in Upcott’s hand, added to in pencil by another hand. Lot 175 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846, from which it was acquired by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 16.

Half binding of brown calf and marbled paper, early 19th cent., matching those of other Upcott compilations, for example Add. MSS 15857-15858.