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Archive Collection:
BC MS Pol

1630s-mid 18th century

Collection of political manuscripts, largely dating from the early-mid 18th century. The collection includes essays on English money and foregin trade.

Archive Series:
BC MS 19c Rose

c.1850-1880

Consists almost entirely of letters received by Rose. Many of them are undated.

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BC MS 19c Butler

c.1860-1885?

Correspondents include Mrs Hannah Ford and Miss Emily Ford, of Leeds

Archive File:
BC MS 19c Selwyn

1701

The main text of the Governor's advice is preceded by an explanatory foreword signed by G.W.M., probably George W. Miller, the author of the letter to Gosse. The typescript was prepared by Miss Ashwor...

Archive Item:
BC MS Pol 1

c.1750

Comprises evidence of the conspiracy in 1663 to seize York and overthrow the government of Charles II, with an alphabetical index of names at the end. The contents of this manuscript differ from those...

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BC MS Pol 2

c.1717

Comprises an apparently unpublished, extensive, and detailed discussion of England's foreign trade with mainland Europe, Africa, America (tobacco etc.), and the West Indies from 1699 to 1717, based on...

Archive Item:
BC MS Pol 3

c. 1760

Also known as:Observations on the coinage of England. Apparently a copy of Sharp's unpublished manuscript work usually known by the title 'Observations on the coinage of England'.

Archive Item:
BC MS Pol 4

late 17th century or early 18th century

A contemporary copy of a political essay by Sir William Temple, the text of which was most probably circulated in MS for many years before it was printed, in his 'Works' of 1754. Full title: 'A learne...

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BC MS Pol 5

mid 1630s

Written in brown ink in a single professional hand, margins ruled in red. Bound in 19th-century calf using the boards of a 16th-century English binding with the arms of Catherine of Aragon and the Roy...