Add MS 15898

VOL. Vll.-Miscellaneous, political, and other Papers, viz. :-Copy, in Lord Clarendon's handwriting, of the Articles against [George Villiers] Duke of Buckingham, by [Thomas Butler] Earl of Ossory, [circ. 1675,] f 1 ;-" Conditions aux quelles le Roy [Louis XIV] veut bien faire la paix, 1678," f. 4;

-Mémoires de Messrs. Jacob Borel et Dyckvelt (Deputies from Holland) à M. le Duc de Villa Hermosa," dat. Brussels, 8, 14 May, 1678, with the Duke's answers, (in Lord Clarendon's band-writing,) fr. 6, 8, 12;-

" Abrégé des Mémoires que Monsr. le Marquis de Villars, Ambassadeur Extraord. de France, a donné par escrit aux Ministres d'Espagne," (in Lord Clarendon's hand,) f. 10;-" Réponse du Roy au Mémoire du M. Beverning," (Envoy from the States Genera],) 1 June, 1678, f. 14;-" An intimation of the Deputies of the States General in a late discourse with Mr. Sidney, Extraordinary Envoy from the King of England " (printed), f 16;- "The last memorial of the Spanish Ambassador [Don Pedro Ronquillo]," 1681, (printed,) f. 18;-Translation of the articles of peace between Charles II. and the Emperor of Morocco, concluded by Sir James Leslie, 20 March, 168 0/1, 19;-Translation of a Letter from Mohammed ben Haddu to William III., dat. 29 June, 1697, f. 23; - Commission and instructions [from Charles II] to Sir Richard Dalton, Knt., Governor of Barbadoes and the Carribee Islands, 22, 30 Oct. 1680, fr. 27, 36 ;-Translation of a Letter from the Elector of Bavaria [Ferdinand-Marie] to the other Electors of the Empire, 28 Apr. 1684, f. 50;-The heads of the controversy between the Crown of Sweden and the City of Bremen, respecting its independence [circ. 1654], f. 54 ;- "Mémoir sur les veues de pénétrer en Ethiopie, ou lettre au Père de la Chaise [1708?]; " with copy of a letter appended, from M. Maillet, French Consul in Egypt, to the Emperor of Abyssinia, 15 Apr. 1698, Fr., ff. 59, 64;-Schedule of uses, &c., declared in a trust-deed, for educating, poor children in the Hospital at Plymouth, n. d., f. 65 ;-Information, on the part of Sir Joseph Banks, Atty. Genl., against Nicholas and Alice Mason, for trespass in Walmer Forest, co. Southton [circ. 1635], Lat., f. 66 ;-Order made at the Exeter Quarter Sessions, 10 Jan. 1681, requiring all persons to take the oath of allegiance, etc., f. 70;-Reply of the Earl Marshal of England [Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk] to the ]Paper of the Lord Chamberlain [John Earl of Mulgrave], about precedency in the King's Court, above stairs; with the Lord Chamberlain's reply, n. d., f 72;-Copies of Treasury warrants to the auditors of Imprest, to allow certain sums of money to Laurence Hyde, Master of the Robes, on passing his accounts, dat. 29 Mar. 1666, 7 Jan. 1667, f. 74;-Proceedings at the trial of the Pix, 14 June, 1679-7 Nov. 1684, f. 76 ;-Letter from W. Quintin to [the Earl of Rochester, Lord Treasurer,] concerning his manors of Eastcote, near Swindon, Wootton Bassett, etc., 7 July, 1683, f. 85;-Accounts of money paid to Anne Thayn (housekeeper to Lady Mordaunt), Sept. 1683, f. 87;-

Abstract of the Commissions for the appointment of Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 15 July, 1685-5 May, 1687, f. 89;-Bond of Laurence [Hydel Earl of Rochester, to John Marten, for the sum of £900, 22 Dec. 1691 ; with acquittance indorsed, f. 89;-The censure of the Upper House of Convocation upon Dr. D'Avenant's late Book of Essays, 22 March, 170 0/1, f. 92; -Copy of the Commission for the appointment of the Commissioners for ratifying a treaty of union with Scotland, 25 Oct. 1702, Lat., f. 94 ;-Order of the Queen in Council, 20 May, 1707, as to the Lords ordered to be summoned and those left out, f. 97;-Lords of the Privy Council sworn according to the Act of Union, 10 May, 1708, f. 99;-" The course of the Exchequer on the receipt side " [1684?], f. 101 ;-Memoranda from the Rolls of Parliament 4 E. 3-39 Hen. 6, f. 110:-Precedents of forms of address used by

the Privy Council, Nov. 1613, Nov. 1676, f. 112;-Proposal from John Green, to take a lease of marsh lands near Long Sutton, co. Lincoln, belonging to Lord Cornbury, n. d., f 1 14 ;-" A brief state of the nature and right of the Masters of Requests, and their present condition," f 116;-

Draft of the petition of the Masters of Requests to the King, f. 117;-

Petitions of Lieut. George Macghee to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieut. of Ireland, with a Letter from the same to Sir Paul Rycaut [1686?], fr. 118, 120;-Petition of Edward Corker to the Earl of Clarendon, concerning the auditor's office [1686], f. 121 ;-" Case of Erasmus Smith's settlement in Ireland, presented by the Governors of Christ's Hospital to the consideration of Lord Clarendon" [1685], f. 123; -Answer of William Cooke to the petition of William Tuite [1685] f 124;-Rolls of the Bishops, Nobility, Officers of State, Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the Kingdom of Scotland, called in the Parliament holden at Edinburgh, 28 July, 1681, f. 126 ;-Counsel's opinions as to the descent of titles of nobility, etc., f 127; An account of his Majesty's Plantations in America, n. d., f 129;-List of the planters and inhabitants in the English ports in Newfoundland in 1680, f 132;-Abstract of the ships and cargoes sent out by the East India Company to India, from I July, 1681, to 30 June, 1682, f. 134;-Letter from the company of the Merchants Adventurers, resident in Hamburg [to the Earl of Rochester?], about the election of Sir Edward Deringe, as their deputy in London; signed " Sa [muel] Missenden, Deptie.," 28 Aug. 1685, f. 135;-

Letter from the same Company, resident in London, remonstrating against the appointment of Sir Edw. Deringe; signed by the Treasurer and Brethren, f. 137;-Short narrative of the transactions of the Scots African and Indian company, established by Act of Parliament, 1695, f. 139;-Account of the naval stores imported from Archangell by the Muscovia Company, 1 Mar.

170 2/3-l Mar. 170 3/4, f. 141.-At the end is added a list of the " Peers of Scotland (as supposed) in 1746, excluding those attainted by Act of Parliament of this year, and the three Lords in the Tower," f. 143. [15,898.]

includes:

• f. 1 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Articles against.
• f. 10 Henri Villars, Duc de; Maréchal: Memoires aux Ministres d'Espagne.
• ff. 45. 46 Helena Macdonnel, widow of Alexander, third Earl of Antrim: Letters to the Earl of Rochester: 1701.
• f. 50 Ferdinand Maria; Duke of Bavaria: Letters to the Electors: 1684.
• f. 54 City of Bremen: Controversy with Sweden.