Add MS 18982

This volume includes correspondence to Prince Rupert during 1645; on the politics of the royalists in exile, and his naval career between 1648 and 1653. At the end is an undated document, a memorial between his brother, Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, and King Charles II. There is some material not addressed to Rupert, but this is either intercepted mail or probably copies made at the time for him to see.

Contents:

ff. 1r-2v: Letter of Sir Charles Lloyd to Prince Rupert, Devizes, 4 Jan 1645. Original, with address and seal.

3v-4v: Letter of Edmund Windham [Wyndham] to Prince Rupert, Chard, 6 Jan 1645. Original.

ff. 5r-6v: Letter of Sir Richard Willys to Prince Rupert, Bath, 7 Jan 1645. Original, with address and fragment of seal. the endorsement reads 'Newark 1644': a few months after this letter Willys was appointed Governor of Newark.

ff. 7r-8v: Letter of Sir Charles Lloyd to Prince Rupert, Devizes, 8 Jan 1645. Original, with address and part of seal.

ff. 9r-10v: Letter of John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, to Prince Rupert, Chester, 9 Jan 1645. Original, with address and seal. Holograph.

ff. 11r-12v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring, to Prince Rupert, Fareham, 9 Jan 1645. Original, with address. Holograph.

ff. 13r-14: Letter of Joseph Rhodes to Prince Rupert, Newark, 10 Jan 1645. Original, with address and fragment of seal. Holograph.

ff. 14r-15v: Letter of Sir Richard Byron to King Charles I, [Newark], n.d. [Jan 1645?]. Possibly holograph.

ff. 16r-17v: Letter of Dudley Whyte to Prince Rupert (at Court), Evesham, 15 Jan 1645. Original, with address.

ff. 18r-19v: Letter of Adrian Scope to Richard Browne, Governor of Abingdon, Oxford, 16 Jan 1645. Original: with address: holograph.

ff. 20r-21v: Letter of Sir William Campion to Prince Rupert (at Oxford), Boarstall [, Buckinghamshire], 21 Jan 1645. Original, with address and remnant of seal.

ff. 22r-v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring, to Prince Rupert, Salisbury, 22 Jan 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 23r-24v: Letter of Guy Molesworth [Moldsworth] to Prince Rupert, Bridgwater, 23 Jan 1645. Original, with address and seal.

ff. 25tr-26v: Letter of Sir William Campion to Prince Rupert, Boarstall [, Buckinghamshire], 25 Jan 1645. Original, with address and part of seal.

ff. 27r-28v: Letter of Prince Maurice to Prince Rupert, Worcester, 29 Jan. 1645. Original, with address and seal.

ff. 29r-30v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring, to Prince Rupert, Winchester, 29 Jan 1645. Original, with Goring's signature, seal and address (the address urges 'hast hast post hast').

ff.. 31r-v: Letter of Samuel Sandys to Prince Rupert, Worcester, 19 Feb 1645. Original.

ff. 32r-v: Letter of Sir Richard Willys to Prince Rupert, Worcester, 19 Feb 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 33r-34v; Letter of Barnaby Scudamore to Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State (at Court), Hereford, 20 Feb 1645.

ff. 35r-v: Agreement of Scottish Commissioners in London on settlement of militia for 7 years, 21 Feb 1645.

ff. 36r-v: Letter of Sir Lewis Kirke to Prince Rupert, Bridgenorth, 22 Feb 1645.

ff. 37r-v: Intelligence report, including movements of Major-General Lawrence Crawford, 2 Mar 1645.

ff. 38r-39v: Letter of George Digby, Baron Digby, to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 5 Mar 1645. Holograph.

ff. 40r-41v: Letter of Lorentz Gamb (or Cramb) to Prince Maurice, Bristol, 9 Mar 1645. Endorsed: 'Monmouthshire'. Original, with address and seal: probably holograph.

ff. 42r-43v: Articles of complaint of the Leicestershire gentry against Sir Gervase Lucas, Governor of Belvoir Castle, followed by the particular complaints of Henry Hastings, Baron Loughborough, n.d. [?March 1645].

ff. 44r-45v: Letter of George Digby, Baron Digby, to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 2 Apr 1645. Original: holograph. Partly in cipher (deciphered).

ff. 46r-47v: Letter of George Digby, Baron Digby, to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 29 Apr 1645. A copy. Partly in cipher (undeciphered).

ff. 48r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 29 Apr 1645. Original, partially in cipher and with summary of contents in endorsement.

ff. 49r-v: Letter of George Digby, Baron Digby, to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 30 Apr 1645. Original: holograph. partially in cipher (decoded).

ff. 50r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 30 Apr 1645. Original, partially in cipher and with summary of contents in endorsement.

ff. 51r-52v: Letter of Arthur Trevor to Prince Rupert, Bristol, 30 Apr 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 53r-54v: Notes on the state of Abingdon, n.d. With a plan of the town. For capturing it and, if necessary, making a safe retreat, 1645 [a later note suggests 2 Apr], although the main royalist attacks were Jan 1645 and Mar 1646.

ff. 55r-56v: Letter of Ralph Goodwin to Prince Rupert, Buford, 9 p.m., 4 May 1645. Original, with address and seal: holograph.

ff. 57r-v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn, to Prince Rupert, Paris, 5 May 1645. Original: probably holograph.

ff. 58r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, 8 May 1645. Copy. Almost wholly in cipher.

ff. 59r-v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring to Prince Rupert, Bristol., 12 May 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 60r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 16 May 1645. Original: holograph, with Nicholas's signature.

ff. 61r-v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring, to Prince Rupert, near Martock [Somerset], 19 May 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 62r-v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring, to Prince Rupert, Ash [Somerset] , 19 May 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 63r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 22 May 1645. Original: holograph. Partially in cipher (deciphered).

ff. 64r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 10 Jun 1645. Original: holograph. Partially in cipher (deciphered).

ff. 65r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 23 Jun 1645. Original: holograph. Partially in cipher (deciphered).

ff. 66r-67v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Digby, to William Legge, Governor of Oxford, Hereford, 30 Jun 1645. Copy. Partially in cipher (deciphered).

ff. 68r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 11 Jul 1645. Copy. Partially in cipher (undeciphered). Copy of ff. 69r-v.

ff. 69r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 11 Jul 1645. Original: holograph Partially in cipher (deciphered). Original of ff. 68r-v.

ff. 70r-v: Letter of George Goring, Baron Goring, to George Digby, Baron Digby, Leicester, 12 Jul 1645. Copy.

ff. 71r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Oxford, 21 Jul 1645. Original: holograph Partially in cipher (deciphered).

ff. 72r-73v: Letter of Leon Watson, Scoutmaster-General, to Lieutenant-Colonel Roo [i.e. probably Francis or Owen Roe], 22 Jul 1645. An intercepted Parliamentarian letter. The address is now to Roe; from the original crossed-out address, Oliver Cromwell was the initial intended recipient. The royalist army officer Sir Lewis Dyve had added an explanatory note of who Watson is, and how he captured the messenger carrying it who is now a prisoner in Sherborne.

ff. 74r-v: George Digby, Baron Digby, to Prince Rupert, Ruperry (or Rupercy), 28 Jul 1645. Original: holograph.

ff. 75r-76v: Letter of Sir Thomas Glemham to Prince Rupert, Cardiff, 28 Jul 1645. Original: holograph, with address and fragment of seal. He encloses the articles of surrender for Carlisle which he had been forced for to for want of provisions (ff. 77r-78r).

ff. 77r-78r: Articles of surrender of Carlisle, Castle and Town, between, on the one part, David Leslie, Lieutenant-General of the Scots cavalry, and on the other Sir Thomas Glemham, Commander-in-Chief of the Four Northern Counties of Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland and Sir Henry Stradling, Governor of Carlisle. 28 Jun 1645. Copy.

ff. 79r-80v: Letter of James Stuart, 4th Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond ('Richmond & Lenox') to Prince Rupert, Cardiff, 3 Aug 1645. Original, with some use of cipher.

ff. 81r-82v: Letter of George Digby, Baron Digby, to Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn, 27 Aug 1645. Copy.

ff. 83r-84v: Letter of George Digby, Baron Digby, to Captain [Diderich] Beckman, Oxford, 29 Aug 1645. Original, with Digby's signature. With address and fragment of seal. At this point Beckman, a Swedish engineer officer serving the King, is being held prisoner at Abingdon.

ff. 85r-86v: Letter of James Palmer to Prince Rupert, Ludlow, 5 Sep 1645. Original, with address and seal: holograph. On Montgomery Castle.

ff. 87r-88v: Letter of Henry Osborne to Prince Rupert, 4 a.m., 30 Oct 1645. Original: holograph. With address and seal.

ff. 89r-90v: Letter of Edward Rossiter to Prince Rupert (at Belvoir Castle), Melton, 30 Oct 1645. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 91r-92v: Letter of Henry Osborne to Prince Rupert, London, 1 Nov 1645. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 93r-94v: Letter of Henry Osborne to Prince Rupert, 9 Nov 1645. Original: holograph. With address. Partially ciphered (with deciphering).

ff. 95r-96v: Letter of Henry Osborne to Prince Rupert, 10 Nov 1645. Original: holograph. With address. Partially ciphered (with deciphering).

ff. 97r-v: Order of the Committee of Both Kingdoms for passes for Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice and their followers to leave the country, 11 Nov 1645. Copy.

ff. 98r-99rv: Letter of Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, to Prince Rupert, 25 Jan 1646. Original: holograph.

ff. 100v-101v: Letter of Prince Rupert to King Charles I, n.d.. From the contents, late 1645 or early1646. Unsigned and undated: presumably a draft (though no crossings out) or a fair copy.

ff. 102r-103v: Letter of Prince Rupert to King Charles I, n.d.. From the contents, late 1645 or early1646. Unsigned and undated: presumably a draft.

f. 104r: Letter of Arthur Capel, 1st Baron Capel of Hadham, to unnamed recipient, Exeter, 1 Dec 1645. No address, and the recikpient merely called 'Sir': presumably one of King Charles's circle as the letter intercedes stating the loyal intentions of Prince Rupert. With Capel's signature.

ff. 105r-106v: Articles for the surrender of Boarstall House, Buckinghamshire, [10 June 1646]. Copy, with signature of Sir William Campion attesting that this is a true copy.

f. 107r: List of the English regiments that are for King Charles I, their companies and the total number of men, Paris, 15 Jan 1647. In French. The year may be old style, in which case it might be 1648. The list totals 28 companies, in all 1372 men.

ff. 108r-109v: Letter of W.B. to Prince Rupert, Edinburgh, 7 May 1647. Original: holograph. With address and fragments of seal.

ff. 110r-111v: Letter of William Owen to Prince Rupert, Nantes, 31, no further date. Original: holograph. With address. A later cataloguer suggests Jul 1647, but 1653 is probably a likely year.

ff. 112r-113v: Letter of R. Neville to Prince Rupert, London, 16 May 1648. Original: holograph. With address and seal. The writer, who may be the royalist army officer Richard Neville, gives the date as both old style and new style (16/26 May).

ff. 114r-v: Ciphered letter (author unknown: probably '500. 430') to Prince Rupert, London, 10 Jun 1648. Original: holograph. There has been some deciphering of the ciphered bits.

ff. 115-116v: Letter from William Bellenden to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 22 Jan 1648. Original: holograph. With address and seal. the year written is 1648, and from the contents this is the year rather than (as under old style dating) 1649.

ff. 117r-118v: Letter of Joseph Bampfylde [Bampfield] to Prince Rupert, on board The Admiral, 18 Jul 1648. Original: holograph.

ff. 119r-120v: Letter of Sir Robert Long to Prince Rupert, 12 Aug 1648. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 121r-122v: Letter of Sir William Vavasour to Prince Rupert, Flushing [Vlissingen], 17 Aug 1648. Original: holograph. With address and fragment of seal.

ff. 123r-v: Ciphered letter to Prince Rupert, 20 Aug 1648. Original. There has been some deciphering, but not of the name of the author. the endorsement provides a useful summary of the letter.

ff. 124r-125v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn to Prince Rupert, Paris, 4 Sep 1648. Original: holograph. with fragment of seal.

ff. 126r-127v: Letter of Sir Robert Long to Prince Rupert, The Brill [Brielle], 2 Oct 1648. Original: holograph. With seal (address torn). The author notes the date as new style.

ff. 128r-129v: Letter of Sir William Vavasour to 'Edward' [recte Sir Robert] Long, Secretary to Prince Charles, Middelburg, 14 Oct 1648. Original: holograph. With address and fragment of seal.

ff. 130r-131v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn to Prince Rupert, Paris, 16 Oct 1648.

ff. 132r-133v; List of the King's ships at 'Helfoot' [Helvoetsluys], with complements and provisions needed for 3 months, 24 Oct 1648.

ff. 134r-135v: Letter of William Craven, Baron Craven to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 6 Nov 1648. Original: holograph; with address and damaged seal. The first part of the letter is heavily ciphered.

ff. 136r-137v: Letter of Morton to Prince Rupert. The Hague, 15 Nov 1648. Original: holograph. With address. The signature only says 'Morton', so possibly Robert Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton.

ff. 138r-139v: Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Prince Rupert, the Hague, 2 p.m., 17 Nov 1648. Original: probably holographt.

ff. 140r-141v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn, to Prince Rupert, Paris, 19 Nov 1648. Original: holograph.

ff. 142r-v: Letter of intelligence, heavily ciphered, 1648. Original, with deciphering.

ff. 143r-v: Letter of Prince Charles (later King Charles II) to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 2 Dec 1648. Original. With address and seal.

ff. 144r-v: Letter of Sir Francis Doddington to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 9 a.m., 13 Oct 1648.

ff. 145r-v: List of King's ships, with musters of sailors and soldiers, at Helvoetsluys, 9 Dec 1648.

ff. 146r-147v: Rules for estimating the charge, of both wages and victuals; for ships at sea, 1648.

f. 148r: Biscuit brought from Rotterdam distributed amongst the King's ships (with ships' names and amounts of biscuit per ship), 26 Dec 1648.

ff. 149r-v: A list of provisions of what biscuit, bread and cheese will serve 10,000 men for one day, 1648. And note of corn and meal in the granary for biscuit, and biscuit already baked.

ff. 150r-151v: Letter of Sir Francis Doddington to Prince Rupert, Rotterdam, 5 p.m., 19 Dec 1648. original: holograph. With address and seal.

ff. 152r-v: Letter of Prince Rupert(?) to Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, 'on board of the Navie'. No date or signature. Probably a draft or copy of Prince Rupert's, from internal references late 1648 when Rupert's ships were still at Helvoetsluys.

ff. 153r-154v: Letter of Ralph Hopton, Baron Hopton to Prince Rupert, Helvoetsluys. 2 Jan 1649. Original: holograph.

ff. 155r-156v: Distribution of victuals and other supplies brought from Rotterdam to Helvoetsluys, 2 Jan 1649.

ff. 157r-158v: Letter of Prince Charles (later Charles II) to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 5 Jan 1649. Original. With address and seal. Rupert has endorsed this letter; 'Pr. to me concerning the Porke received at Helvoet the sixt of Jan'.

ff. 159r-v: Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 6 p.m., 6 Jan 1649. Original, with Hyde's signature; possibly in his hand throughout.

ff. 161r-162v: Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 11 p.m., 20 Jan 1649. Original, with Hyde's signature; possibly in his hand throughout.

ff. 163r-164v: Letter of Murrough O'Brien, 6th Baron Inchiquin, to Prince Rupert, Cork, 20 Jan 1649. Original: probably holograph. With address and fragment of seal.

ff. 165r-168v: Remonstrance to Prince Rupert of Shetland ['Yetland'] and the sound there as a place of rendezvous for royalist ships, presented by Captain Richard Paitson of Sandwich in Kent, currently master's mate of the Roebuck, n.d. [?Jan 1649].

ff. 169r-170v: Letter of James Touchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, to Prince Rupert, Carrick [on Suir?], 1 Feb 1649. Original: holograph. With address and damaged seal.

ff. 171r-172v: Letter of Theobald Taaffe, Viscount Taaffe, to Prince Rupert, Carrick [on Suir?], 2 Feb 1649.Original: holograph.

ff. 173r-174v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 19 Feb 1649. Original: with address and seal.

ff. 175r-176v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 27 Feb 1649. Original: with address and seal.

ff. 177r-178v: Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 28 Feb 1649. Original: holograph. Partially ciphered (with deciphering).

ff. 179r-180v: Letter of Murrough O'Brien, 6th Baron Inchiquin to Prince Rupert, Cork, 8 Mar 1649. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 181r-182v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 18 Mar 1649. Original. With address and seal.

ff. 183r-184v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn, to Prince Rupert, Paris, 26 Jun [1649]. Original: holograph. No year is given; the letter tells Rupert that the King will give him news of this place, which, with other content, makes 1649 the most plausible year.

ff. 185r-186v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, St Germain, 3 Aug 1649. The year is new style.Original, with address and damaged seal. Original: heavily ciphered (with deciphering). ff. 185r-186v and 187r-188r look like two copies of the same letter sent.

ff. 187r-188v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, St Germain, 3 Aug 1649. The year is new style. Original, with address and damaged seal. Original: heavily ciphered. Another copy (with deciphering). Noted as a 'duplicate' at the head, and also 'my own Cypher'. ff. 185r-186v and 187r-188r look like two copies of the same letter sent (ff. 187r-188r, the 'duplicate'. clearly bears the royal seal).

ff. 189r-190v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn, to Prince Rupert, St Germain, 19 Aug 1649. Original: holograph.

ff. 191r-192v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, Jersey, 15 Nov 1649. Original. Heavily ciphered (according to Lord Gerard's cipher; with decoding).

ff. 193r-194v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Jersey, 30 Nov 1649. Original: holograph. With address and seal.

ff. 195r-v: Letter of Charles II to Prince Rupert, Jersey, 4 Dec 1649. Original: With some ciphering (decoded).

ff. 196r-197v: Letter of Ralph Hopton, Baron Hopton, to Prince Rupert, Brill (Brielle), 10 Jan 1650. Original. Holograph, with seal.

ff. 198r-199v: Letter of King Charles II to Prince Rupert, our Court in Jersey, 31 Jan 1650. Original. With address.

ff. 200r-201v: Letter of Sir Robert Long to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 28 Feb 1649. Original: Holograph. With address. Long dates the letter 1649, but from the content he probably means 1649 new style rather than 1649/50 old style.

ff. 202r-203v: Letter of William Owen and Robert Holmes to Prince Rupert, Nantes, 24 May. the year is not given. A later cataloguer ventures 1650, but 1653 is the more probable year.

ff. 204r-205v: Letter of William Legge and H. [?Henry] Cary to Prince Rupert, Exeter Gaol, 18 Dec 1650. Original, with address and seal.

ff. 206r-207v: Journal of some passages of the Fleet of Prince Rupert at Portugal, 15-22 May 1650.

ff. 208r-209v: Letter of Prince Rupert to Sir E., [1650?] Draft. No date, and no signature or address, but an endorsement says the letter was to Sir E. An endorsement describes the letter as remarks made by His Highness of the late Fleet at Portugal when he was first blocked up by the English rebels.

ff. 210r-211v: Letter of Prince Rupert to King Charles II, n.d. [1650?]. Draft. Later, but 17th century endorsement, describes this as a letter from Rupert to the King, giving an account of his voyage to Portugal and taking several very considerable prizes.

ff. 212r-213v; Letter of Prince Rupert, n.d. [1650?]. Endorsement notes remarks made by Prince Rupert of the taking two prizes from the English rebels, the John Adventure and the Roebuck; the selling them at Lisbon; the delays caused by the Conde de Mira and the Portuguese Secretary of State; ; sending out part of the Fleet under Prince Maurice to intercept the English merchant prizes to be sent to Ireland, or (if that could not be done) into Lisbon river under a black flag.

ff. 214r-215r: Letter of Captain John Pittes to Prince Rupert, Angra [, the Azores], 17 Oct 1651. Original: holograph.

ff. 216r-217v: Relation of Captain Philip Marshall and his officers of the Honest Seaman of an exchange with a Spanish ship off Pico Island [the Azores] directed to Prince Rupert (or Prince Maurice), 4 Nov 1651. Eight signatures.

ff. 218r-219v: Relation of Prince Rupert's of proceedings to secure a Spanish prize, n.d. [1651]. Evidently the same incident as ff. 216r-217v.

ff. 220r-221v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn to Prince Rupert, Paris, 8 Feb 1651. Original: holograph.

ff. 222r-223v: Anonymous letter to Prince Rupert. No subscription or date. A later (17th-century) endorsement suggests the letter was written in Paris to Rupert at Nantes when he returned from the West Indies, which is plausible from the contents; it dates the letter to 1652 (though Rupert's return places it in 1653).

ff. 224r-227v: Relation of Captain Timothy Craven of the loss of his ship, 15 Sep-22 Nov 1652.

ff. 228r-v: Letter of John Mansell to Prince Rupert, The Hague, 23 Apr 1653. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 229r-230v: Letter of Sir Henry de Vic to Prince Rupert, Brussels, 12 May 1653. Original: holograph.

ff. 231r-v: Letter of Peter Drummond to Prince Rupert, Camphier [i.e. Veere, Zeeland province], 28 May 1653. Original: holograph.

ff. 232r-233v: Letter of Timothy Craven to Prince Rupert (at Paris), Nantes, 12 Jun 1653: original: probably holograph. With address and seal.

ff. 234r-235v: Letter of John Fortiscue, 23 Oct, no year [1651-1653?]fol. 236r-237v: Letter . Relation of an incident with a ship flying Portuguese colours.

ff. 236r-237v: Letter of Henry Jermyn, Baron Jermyn, to Prince Rupert, 22 Mar 1653. Original: holograph. With address and seal.

ff. 238r-239v: Notes by Mr Dorrington [possibly Francis Dorrington] on prize money and costs [1653?].

ff. 240r-241v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, n.d. [?Apr 1656]. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 242r-243v: Letter of Tobias Holder to Prince Rupert, Heidelberg, 25 Jul 1654. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 244r-v: Letter of Tobias Holder to Prince Rupert, Heidelberg, 1 Aug [1654?]. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 245r-v: Letter of Tobias Holder to Prince Rupert, Heidelberg, 8 Aug 1654. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 246r-v: Letter of Tobias Holder to Prince Rupert, Heidelberg, 7 Oct 1654. Original: holograph. With address.

ff. 247r-248v: Letter of Sir Edward Nicholas to Prince Rupert, Brussels, 6/16 May 1658. Original: holograph. With address and seal.

ff. 249r-250v: Memorial of the Elector Palatine to the King of Great Britain, n.d. In Latin. Neither ruler is named, but presumably Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, and King Charles II. A later cataloguer ventures the date as 1676.

ff. 251r-v: Order of Prince Rupert for the closing of the sluice at Helvoetsluys whilst trimming and cleaning of the ships of his fleet there [late 1648].