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Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Plot, Robert, Dr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Dec 1687
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In envelope, with a typescript copy
Note: Information concerning the life of Sir Richard Brown, Plot's father-in-law, for Anthony Wood's "Athenae Oxoniensis". Transcript of the inscription on his monument, with the note: "For he would be interr'd in the Church-yard, close to the wall of the Church, where is a black marble ballustred over him, with a short Latine inscription. This English one being in an Ile within the Church. The letters are all Capitol". Reference to his "accademical learning" and his relations with Charles I and Charles II. His life in France and his religious beliefs, his services to the King and the attraction of his character.
Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Thoresby, Ralph
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Jul 16[99]
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In folding cloth case, guarded, with typescript copy
Note: Apologises for delay in answering Thoresby's letter, due to his involvement in an estate appeal to Parliament, and to the death of his only son. Discussion of the cures achieved by Mr Stroaker ("Phil. Trans.", 256) by laying on of hands. Wishes to send him a Nanteuil print.
Sender: Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax of Cameron
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Sep 1640
Location: BC MS Yks 5
Note: Letter signed. Expressing willingness to serve in Parliament. Folio, 1f.
Sender: Fairfax, Charles
Recipient: Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax of Cameron
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Apr 1646
Location: BC MS Yks 4
Note: 2ff.
Sender: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Aug 1666
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Clarendon (1)
Note: Autograph and a printed portrait only. The material was formerly bound into a volume which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters. The bound volume also contains a typescript biography of Hyde which is much shorter than that found in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Sender: Osborne, Peregrine, Marquess of Carmarthen, 2nd Duke of Leeds
Recipient: "Dear Sister"
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Jun 1694
Location: BC Misc letters (bound): OSBORNE
Note: The letter relates to the Battle of Camaret Bay. The original letter mounted and bound with a typed transcript. In June 1694 the Marquess of Carmarthen was serving as Rear-admiral of the blue squadron in the fleet under John, 3rd Lord Berkeley, and, as the junior, was placed in command of the squadron detached to cover the landing in Camaret Bay, which was attempted on the 8th of that month. A preliminary investigation had shown him that the strength of the defences had been much underestimated, and, on his suggestion, the covering force had been largely increased, Carmarthen hoisting his flag for the occasion on board the Monck, a 60-ton ship. The batteries and entrenchments, however, proved still more formidable than ever he had judged; one of his ships was sunk, and the other sustained severe damages, while the attempt to land was repulsed with great loss. This letter was written the day after the battle.
Sender: James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland; VI, King of Scotland
Recipient: Sophia, Queen of Denmark
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Dec 1589
Location: BC SAFE
Note: 2pp. fol. sealed with royal arms. With regard to the marriage of James to Anne of Denmark, involving a journey by James to Norway and relating that stormy weather and his wife's health had delayed their visit to the Queen Mother in Denmark, which they still hope to accomplish. Address: Serenissimae Principi Sophiae Dei ³ gratia, Daniae, Noruegiae, Gothorum ³ Vandalorug Reginae viduae, ... Matri ³ et Consan ³ guineae nrae longe charissimae.
Begins: JACOBUS Dei gratia Rex Scotorum, Serenissimae Principi, Sophiae
Ends: Dat. Asloiae Noruegorum xiiij die Decembris ³ Anno vltimi seculi 1589 regniq nostrivicesimo tertio. S.V. addictissmus in perpe ³ tuum filius ³ Jacobus R.
Sender: Creichtounes, Andrew & Creichtounes, Robert.
Recipient: Turner, James, Sir.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1666
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Constable 336
Note: Copy of a document, "Obligation - Andrew and Robert Creichtounes To Sir James Turner. 1666".
Sender: Wilson, Mathew
Recipient: Lambert, Lord
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1655
Location: SC MS 417/59/23.22
Note: Copy letter.
Sender: Charles I
Recipient: Appesley, Sir Allan
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Dec 1642
Location: SC Dep. 1984/2.1
Note: Warrant of Charles I to Sir Appesley to raise a regiment of 1200
foot soldiers. Sign manual of Charles I. (BL loan 57/109).
Sender: Charles II
Recipient: Mary of Modena, Duchess of York.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Sep 1679
Location: SC Dep. 1984/2.2
Note: Letters of Denization. Fragment of Great Seal. (BL loan 57/110).
Sender: Aubery, Louys
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 28 Jul 1628
Location: BC Misc. letters 2
Note: MS. In French. A long letter in which Aubery, obviously in the employ of the gentleman to whom he is writing, tells of the success or otherwise of purchases and interviews he has been commissioned to undertake. He also passes on political news and some gossip about a quarrel between two noblemen.