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040-002109720

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032-002109547

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Vol. I, ff. 220, XVIII cent.

includes:

f. 1 William King, d 1729 Archbishop of Dublin: Letter to S. Madden: 1701.: Copy.
f. 5 Francis Gwyn, politician: Letter to R. Harley: 1693.: Copy.
f. 5b Narcissus Luttrell, annalist; bibliographer: Letter to R. Harley: 1693.: Copy.
ff. 5-75 passim Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford: Correspondence of: 1693-1722.: Copies.
f. 6 Sir Edward Harley, KB: Letter to, from T. Blount: 1672.: Copy.
f. 6 Thomas Blount, legal historian: Letter to Sir E. Harley: 1672.: Copy.
ff.7,7b John Mill, DD; Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford: Letters to G. Hickes: 1701, 1702.: Copies.
f. 9 Humfrey Wanley, librarian to the Earls of Oxford: Letter to R. Harley: 1703.: Copy.
ff. 12-19 Peter Allix, d 1717 DD; French Protestant theologian: Letters to R. Harley: 1704-1707.: Copies.
ff. 20, 21b Guilielmus Surenhusius, Professor of Hebrew at Amsterdam: Letters to R. Harley: 1706, 1709.: Lat.: Copies.
ff. 23, 23b Elkanah Settle, poet: Letters to R. Harley: 1704.: Copies.
f. 24 George Hickes, DD, Dean of Worcester: Letter to R. Harley: bef. 1711.: Copy.
f. 26 William Hanbury, Keeper of the Cotton Library: Letter to R. Harley: 1706.: Copy.
ff. 27-29 Adrian Beverland, d 1712 Dutch jurist and philosopher: Letter to R. Harley: circ. 1704-1708.: Lat.: Copy.
ff.28,29 Art. Miscellaneous: List of pictures belonging to A. Beverland: circ. 1704-1708.
f. 30 Moses Stringer: Letter to R. Harley: 1707.: Copy.
f. 32 John Strype, historian: Letter to H. Wanley: 1710.: Copy.
ff. 33-35b Robert Nelson, FRS; religious writer: Letters to Lord Harley: 1710-1714.: Copies.
f. 36 Gregory King, Lancaster Herald: Letter to R. Harley: 1711.: Copy.
ff. 38-43 Peter Le Neve, Norfolk antiquary: Letters to R. Harley: 1711-1712.: Copies.
f. 41b Thomas Rymer, d 1713 Historiographer Royal: Offer to sell his MSS. to Lord Oxford: 1711.
f. 44 John Ernest Grabe, d 1711 D D; editor of the 'Codex Alexandrinus': Letter to Lord Oxford: 1711.: Copy.
f. 45 William Nicholls, DD; religious writer: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1711.: Copy.
ff. 46-48 Joshua Barnes, d 1712 FRS; Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University, 1695: Letters to Lord Oxford: 1711.: Copies.
f. 49 John Dennis, critic and dramatist: Letter to R. Harley: 1711.: Copy.
f. 50 Aaron Hill, poet: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1714.: Copy.
f. 52b Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk: Letter to J. Anstis: circ. 1710.: Copy.
f. 53 John Anstis, heraldic writer and Garter King of Arms: Letter to H. Wanley: 1713.: Copy.
f. 53b John Anstis, heraldic writer and Garter King of Arms: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1712.: Copy.
f. 54 Stonesfield, Oxfordshire: Letter describing Roman remains found at: 1712.
f. 55 William Elstob, brother of Elizabeth Elstob: Letter to R. Harley: 1711.: Copy.
f. 56 Robert Greene, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1712.: Copy.
f. 57 Robert Sedgwick, Clerk of the Jewel Office: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1713.: Copy.
ff. 58-60b John Elphinstone, formerly librarian in the Cotton Library: Letters and petitions to Lord Oxford: 1711-1717.: Extracts.
f.61 (copy) William Derham, FRS; Vicar of Upminster: Letters to J. Chamberlayne: 1713.
ff. 62-63b Elizabeth Elstob, Anglo-Saxon scholar: Letters to Lord Oxford: 1713, 1714.: Copies.
f. 64 John Smith, d 1715 DD; Treasurer of Durham: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1714.: Copy.
ff. 65-69 Richard Fiddes, d 1725 DD; historian: Letters to Lord Oxford: 1714-1723.: Copies.
f. 70 Martha Ockley, wife of Reverend Simon Ockley: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1720.: Copy.
ff. 71, 71b Joseph Bingham, Rector of Havant; ecclesiastical historian: Letters to Lord Oxford: 1717, 1718.: Copies.
f. 73 Henrietta Cavendish Harley, daughter of John, Duke of Newcastle, and wife of Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford: Letter to Lord Harley: 1718.: Copy.
f. 74 T. Walter: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1720.: Copy.
f. 75 Nathaniel Hooke, the younger; historian: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1722.: Copy.
f. 76 William Stafford-Howard, 2nd Earl of Stafford: Letter to -- Preston: 1730.: Copy.
f. 77 James Fitz-James, 1st Duke of Berwick d 1734: Letter to Lord Dupplin: 1731.: Copy.
f. 78 Nathaniel Noel, bookseller: Letter to Lord Oxford: 1732.: Copy.
f. 79 Elizabeth I of England: Note respecting her Bible: 1733.
f. 79 Captain Thomas Robinson: Letter to -- Crump: 1733.: Copy.
ff. 80, 81 Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford: Letters to Mrs. C. Clayton: 1731.: Copies.
ff. 80b, 81b Charlotte Clayton, wife of W Clayton, Baron Sundon 1735: Letters to Lord Oxford: 1731.: Copies.
ff. 82-84 Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury 1741; Lord Bruce: Letters to Lord Oxford: 1714, 1734.: Copies.
f. 85 Henry Paget, 1st Earl (1784) of Uxbridge: Letter to Lord Harley: 1736.: Copy.
ff. 86-97 James Tunstall, DD, 1744; Rector of Great Chart: Letters to Lord Harley: 1738, 1739.: Copies.
f. 98 Eusebius, pseudonym: Letter to [?T. Birch]: circ. 1740.
f. 98 William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester 1759: Criticism by 'Eusebius' of his 'Divine Legation of Moses': circ. 1740.
ff. 104-111 Reverend Johnson, of Dublin: Letter to the authors of 'True and Candid Disquisitions': 1750.: Copy.
f. 112 Edmund Gibson, Bishop of Lincoln and (1720) of London: Letter to M. Tate: 1721.: Copy.
f. 114 Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester: Letter to, from H. Aldrich: 1700.: Copy.
f. 114 (copy) Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; composer: Letter to the Bp of Rochester: 1700.
ff.116-118 Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin; author: Extracts by T. Birch from his 'History of the last Parliament of Queen Anne', written in 1713: 1742.
f. 119 John Leland, DD; nonconformist minister: Letter to S. Chandler: 1755.: Copy.
ff. 123 - 125 Andrew Baxter, Metaphysician: Considerations on his dialogue 'Matho': circa 1740.
f. 126 John Henry Ott, Librarian at Lambeth Palace, and Prebendary of Peterborough: Letter to -: 1727.
f. 128 Henry Miles, DD, FRS: Letter to -: 1742.
f. 130 Strickland Gough, d 1752 Rector of Swayfield: Letter to the Editor of the 'Monthly Review': 1751.
f. 145 Austin Parke Goddard: Letter to [?J.] Douglas: 1758.: Copy.
ff.145-146 Archibald Bower, church historian: Character of, etc.: 1758.
ff. 148-151 William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester 1759: Letter to M. Concanen: 1727.: Copy.
f. 152 William Hogarth, artist: Advertisement for a new edition of his 'Analysis of Beauty': 1754.
f. 154 Johann Gutenberg, d 1468 printer: Notes on: 1760.
f. 155 Benjamin Jonson, dramatist and poet: Letter conc. him: circ. 1760.
f. 157 Thomas Ruddiman, Librarian of the Society of Advocates, Edinburgh: Letter to A. Millar: 1736.: Extr.
ff. 159-162 Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln 1660: Letter to --: 1657.: Copy.
f. 163 Dorothy Pakington, d 1679 wife of Sir J Pakington, 2nd Baronet: Affidavit respecting her authorship of 'The Whole Duty of Man': 1698: Copy, 18th cent.
f.163 Thomas Caulton, Vicar of Worksop: Affidavit of, respecting the authorship of 'The Whole Duty of Man', 1698. Copy: 18th cent.
f. 164 Poetry ENGLISH: J. Milton: lines attrib. to, 1665.: 18th cent.: Copy.
f. 164 John Milton, poet: Poem said to have been written by him in 1665, beg. 'Fair mirror of foul times'.: 1665: Copy, 18th cent.
ff.165-179 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon: Notes on his life: 1738.
f. 180 Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford: Letter to W. Kemp: 1717.: Copy.
f.180 John Kemp, FRS; antiquary: Memoranda rel. to his will: 1717.
f. 181 John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery: Letter to T. Carte: 1737.
ff. 192-195b,197-208 Samuel Squire, DD; Bishop of St Davids 1761: 'A Letter to John Trot-Plaid... By Duncan MacCarte, a Highlander', by: 1748.
ff. 192-208 Thomas Carte, historian: Letters rel. to his 'History of England': 1748.

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Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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032-002109547
036-002109718
037-002109719
040-002109720

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Add MS 4101-4478 : Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was…
Add MS 4253-4257 : BIRCH LITERARY PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE ADD. MSS. 4253-4257.
Add MS 4253-4255 : Literary papers and correspondence of Thomas Birch, connected with his work as joint-editor of the revised edition of…

Add MS 4253 : Vol. I, ff. 220, XVIII cent. includes: f. 1 William King, d 1729 Archbishop of Dublin: Letter to S. Madden: 1701.: Copy. f. 5…

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Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

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18th century

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Names:

Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, composer, 1648-1710
Allix, Peter, DD; French Protestant theologian, d 1717
Anstis, John, the elder, herald and antiquary, 1669-1774
Barnes, Joshua, author; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge University, 1654-1712
Baxter, Andrew, metaphysician, 1686-1750
Beverland, Adrian, Dutch jurist and philosopher, d 1712
Bingham, Joseph, Rector of Havant; ecclesiastical historian
Blount, Thomas, legal historian
Bower, Archibald, church historian
Boyle, John, 5th Earl of Orrery
Bruce, Charles, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury 1741, Lord Bruce
Carte, Thomas, historian
Caulton, Thomas, Vicar of Worksop
Clayton, Charlotte, wife of W Clayton, Baron Sundon 1735
Dennis, John, critic and playwright, 1658-1734
Derham, William, clergyman, scientist and theologian, 1657-1735
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121446237
Elphinstone, John, formerly librarian in the Cotton Library
Elstob, Elizabeth, calligrapher and Old English scholar, 1683-1756
Elstob, William, Anglo-Saxon scholar and clergyman, 1674?-1715
Eusebius, pseudonym
Fiddes, Richard, priest and historian, 1671-1725
Fitz James, James, Duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed, army officer and politician, 1670-1734
Gibson, Edmund, jurist, antiquary and Bishop of London, 1669-1748
Goddard, Austin Parke, of Add MS 4253
Gough, Strickland, of Swayfield, clergyman and chaplain, d 1753
Grabe, John Ernest, D D; editor of the 'Codex Alexandrinus', d 1711
Greene, Robert, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge
Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch, inventor, craftsman and printer, d 1468
Gwyn, Francis, politician
Hanbury, William, Keeper of the Cotton Library
Harley, Edward, politician and officer in the parliamentarian army, 21 Oct 1624-8 Dec 1700
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Hickes, George, bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary, 1642-1715
Hill, Aaron, poet
Hogarth, William, artist
Hooke, Nathaniel, the younger; historian
Howard, Thomas, 8th Duke of Norfolk
Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon, 1609-1674
Johnson, Reverend; of Dublin
Jonson, Benjamin, dramatist and poet, 1572-1637,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121340010
Kemp, John, antiquary, 1665-1717
King, Gregory, Lancaster Herald; of Add MS 4253
King, William, Archbishop of Dublin, d 1729
Le Neve, Peter, herald and antiquary, 1661-1729
Leland, John, DD; nonconformist minister
Luttrell, Narcissus, annalist, bibliographer, d. 1732
Miles, Henry, DD, FRS
Mill, John, DD, Principal of St Edmund Hall Oxford
Milton, John, poet, 1608-1674
Nelson, Robert, FRS; religious writer
Nicholls, William, DD; religious writer
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Ockley, Martha, wife of Reverend Simon Ockley
Ott, John Henry, Librarian at Lambeth Palace, and Prebendary of Peterborough
Paget, Henry, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, fl 1784
Pakington, Dorothy, wife of Sir J Pakington, 2nd Baronet, d 1679
Robinson, Thomas, Captain
Ruddiman, Thomas, Librarian of the Society of Advocates, Edinburgh
Rymer, Thomas, Historiographer Royal, d 1713
Sanderson, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln 1660
Sedgwick, Robert, Clerk of the Jewel Office
Settle, Elkanah, poet
Smith, John, DD; Treasurer of Durham, d 1715
Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, 1635-1713
Squire, Samuel, DD; Bishop of St Davids 1761
Stafford-Howard, William, 2nd Earl of Stafford
Stringer, Moses
Strype, John, historian and biographer, 1643-1737,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122779439
Surenhusius, Guilielmus, Professor of Hebrew at Amsterdam
Swift, Jonathan, Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, author, 1667-1745
Tunstall, James, DD, 1744; Rector of Great Chart
Walter, T.
Wanley, Humfrey, Old English scholar and librarian, 1672-1726,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083872680
Warburton, William, writer, critic and Bishop of Gloucester, 1698-1779

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