Add MS 38499

TOWNSHEND PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 357). Drafts and copies of the same correspondence, extending also over the negotiations concerning Sweden, Poland and Schleswig, down to the recall of Lord Townshend; 24 May, 1709-circ. 17 Mar. 1711, N.S. Some of the letters are addressed to Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland; and a few original letters from other correspondents are included. Some of the drafts and annotations are in Lord Townshend's own hand, but a large number are, as in Add. MS. 38498 above, in the hand of Horatio Walpole, his secretary. For the period which it covers, the register in the preceding volume is fuller, but the present volume not only extends over the whole embassy, but contains also copies of Henry Boyle's letters and some drafts from Lord Townshend to the Duke of Marlborough. Full copies of the correspondence, 19 May, 1709 23 Sept. 1710, N.S., are in Egerton MSS. 892-894, and large extracts and copies in Add. MS. 36795; copies, 1-29Aug. 1710, N.S., are in Add. MS.33273, ff.44-76. Prefixed (f. 1) is a letter in Latin from Carolus Conradus Achenbac to R. Hales, dated Berlin, 27 Apr. 1709, N.S., on the steps to be taken in the proposed treaty to safeguard the Protestant churches in Germany. Paper. Folio. (Townshend sale-cat. 1911, lots 232, 343, 329).

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton: Letters in hand of, as Lord Townshend's Sec. at the Hague: 1709-1711.: Drafts and copies.

Henery Boyle, Baron Carleton 1714; Secretary of State: Drafts and copies of correspondence with the same: 1709-1711.

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend: Drafts and copies of letters as Plenipotentiary at the Hague: 1709-1711.

Netherlands, United Provinces: Despatches of British plenipotentiaries at the Hague: 1709-1711.: Copies and drafts.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Drafts and copies of letters as Plenipotentiary at the Hague: 1709-1711.

includes:

• f. 1 Carolus Conradus Achenbac: Letter to R. Hales: 1709.: Lat.
• f. 41 John Robertson, Secretary to George I: Letter to Lord Townsend: 1709.: Fr.
• ff. 83, 84 A- Strachan, Secretary to Sir P Meadows at Vienna: Intercepted letters of, to the French Comptroller of Finance, etc.: 1709.: Fr.: Copies.
• f. 109 Count Sigbert von Heister: Proclamation for restoration of ecclesiastical property in Hungary: 1709.: Lat.
• f. 109 Hungary: Proclamation for the restoration of ecclesiastical property in: 1709.: Lat.
• f.111 Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland: Letter to Lord Townshend: 1709.: Fr.
• f. 144 James D'Ayrolle: Letter to Lord Townshend: 1709.: Fr.
• ff. 186, 343 (A.D 1710) Newsletters From France: Paris: A.D. 1697.
• f. 224 Benjamin Sweet, Banker, British Paymaster in Holland: Letter to.: 1710.
• f. 226 J- J- Caesar, Minister of the German Congregation, London: Letter to H. Boyle: 1710.: Copy.
• f. 259 Augustus II of Poland: Statement by the Polish Envoys at the Hague: 1710.: Fr.
• f. 270 William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth: Letter to Sir J. Norris: 1710.: Extract.
• f. 274 Newspapers Dutch: Les Nouvelles d'Amsterdam: 1 Aug. 1710.
• ff. 282, 286, 288 Joseph I; Emperor of Germany: Project, etc., for preserving the neutrality of the Empire: 1710.: Lat.
• ff. 286, 309 Netherlands, United Provinces: Resolutions of the States-General: 1710.: Lat. and Fr.: Copies.
• f. 288 Anne of England: Ratification of the treaty of Nördlingen: 1702.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 288 Treaties: Ratification of treaty betw. England and the Circles of the Empire: 1710.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 296 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Torcy; French Secretary of State: Letter to H. Petkum: 1710.: Fr.: Copy.
• f.309 Switzerland: Resolution of the States-General conc. the Grisons: 1710.: Fr.: Extract.
• f.319 Count Johann Leopold Donat Trautson,; Grand Master of the Imperial Court: Letter to the Imperial Envoy at the Hague: 1710.: Fr.: Copy.
• f. 339 John Wenceslaus Wratislaw, Count; Imperial Ambassador to England: Letter to, from the Swedish Sec. at Vienna: 1710.: Fr.: Copy.
• f. 351 Newsletters From Belgium: Brussels: A.D. 1710.