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THE REPORTS OF THE HISTORICAL 
 MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION 
 
 The Eeports of the Eoyal Commissiou^r:^ fat Ki&tonc^l 
 Manuscripts afford information — historical, bio- 
 graphical, social, and, withal, human and intimate — 
 chiefly concerning the peoples of Great Britain and 
 Ireland, such as, it may safely be affirmed, is not to be 
 paralleled in any other published series of original 
 sources. A statement of the results obtained, made by 
 the Commissioners in their Eeport to the Sovereign in 
 1872, may be repeated with stronger emphasis in refer- 
 ence to their subsequent operations. What they said 
 then is true as regards what has been done since. 
 ' * Many important and valuable materials for the history 
 of this country which have for so long remained unex- 
 plored, if not altogether unknown, are now for the first 
 time brought to light, and it is not too much to say 
 that there is scarcely an important historical event, 
 certainly no period of English history, which has not 
 received some elucidation from the operations of your 
 Commission." 
 
 Up to the present the series of Eeports comprises 
 about one hundred and fifty-six volumes issued during 
 the period of forty-four years from 1870 to 1914. 
 
 A brief account of the way in which the Commission 
 originated and of the tasks which it subsequently under 
 
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 took will serve to show the purpose for which it was 
 appointed, and usefully preface a detailed statement of 
 what has been accomplished. 
 
 In the year 1859 a memorial, numerously and influ- 
 
 entially signed, was presented to Lord Palmerston, 
 
 then Prime Minister, urging him to advise H.M. Queen 
 
 yictoria to appoint a Eoyal Commission whose object 
 
 'fiSquld b'§ /'fto-rQSQue from oblivion and in many cases 
 
 . ^rgm decay valuable collections of papers, the contents 
 
 : :o'5 whfcE 'W^re: ijiijknown even to their possessors, but 
 
 which were !*'.'. of the highest value on account of 
 
 the information which they would afford on matters of 
 
 history, law, legislation, biography, and several other 
 
 important matters." 
 
 A decade elapsed before the suggestion of this 
 memorial was carried into effect. Then in 1869 a 
 body of extremely influential Eoyal Commissioners 
 was appointed * ' to take the necessary steps for a 
 precise, detailed examination of collections of manu- 
 scripts to be found in Great Britain and Ireland, having 
 first obtained the consent of their owners, whether 
 private persons or heads of institutions, and, if they 
 thought proper, to publish the results." This action 
 was intended at the time to be tentative only; accord- 
 ing to one proposal it was to be merely a short five 
 years' experiment; but the success of the work thus 
 begun was so marked, and the fruits of it were seen to 
 be of such value and importance, that the activities of 
 the Commission were not only continued, but increased 
 as time went on, until the outbreak of war in 1914 
 brought them practically to a stop. The Commission, 
 however, remains in being; the stoppage is temporary 
 only, and the hope may be entertained that its work 
 
HISTOKICAL MSS. COMMISSION 6 
 
 will be now resumed, in view of the extensive field of 
 inquiry that seems ever enla-rging before it. 
 
 In the course of years many changes in the modus 
 operandi, determined by the experience gained in the 
 process of investigation, naturally took place. 
 
 The First Eeport of the Commissioners appeared in 
 1870 as a Parliamentary Blue Book — a folio in double 
 columns — a form and style which were repeated in suc- 
 ceeding Eeports up to and including the Ninth, issued 
 in three parts in 1883-1884. The collections examined 
 during these fourteen years were very numerous : no 
 less than one hundred and eighty were offered for con- 
 sideration in the first year. The Appendix to the First 
 Eeport contains notices of forty-five in England, twelve 
 in Scotland, nine in Ireland, and, strange to say, one 
 in a foreign country, the University library of Heidel- 
 berg. This, however, is merely the result of a passing 
 visit by one of the Commissioners, who calls attention 
 to a manuscript there — " The Offices of England " — 
 containing a detailed and carefully arranged list of the 
 various salaried State, legal, and other office-holders in 
 the year 1608, and is a unique exception to the rule 
 which limits the investigations of the Commissioners to 
 Great Britain and Ireland. 
 
 The number of collections reviewed and reported upon 
 in the Second and Third Eeports was even greater than 
 in the first. Between 1869 and 1876 more than four 
 hundred and twenty had been examined. Consequently, 
 during these early years, little more could be done in 
 most cases than to take a preliminary general survey of 
 the collections placed at the disposal of the Commis- 
 sioners, who arranged a circuit of places to be visited by 
 their Inspectors. Under such circumstantjes the results 
 
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 obtained could not in general be other than perfunctory 
 and incomplete. Later, however, the work done under 
 the auspices of the Commission became less extensive 
 and more intensive. The practice of removing collec- 
 tions of manuscripts to the Public Kecord Office, to be 
 there examined and calendared with due deliberation, 
 was more frequently adopted, until it became the 
 almost invariable practice. The Eeports consequently 
 changed their character, being drawn up according to 
 better methods and on a more uniform plan. The 
 contents of the manuscripts were extracted in greater 
 detail and the Eeports thus became much more useful 
 to the student and of greater general interest. 
 
 I.— THE EEPOETS OF THE COMMISSIONEES. 
 
 Attention has already been called indirectly to the 
 distinction which should be drawn between the Eeports 
 of the Commissioners themselves and the Eeports of 
 the Inspectors employed by them. The former are 
 addressed to the Sovereign, and were first made 
 annually and then at longer and irregular intervals. 
 They are eighteen in number. The Tenth to the 
 Eighteenth were issued separately from the Eeports of 
 Inspectors. It is to the latter, of course, that the 
 student will in the main turn for instruction. The 
 question may reasonably be asked, therefore. Of what 
 use to him, if any, will the Eeports of the Commis- 
 sioners be? To this question the following reply may 
 be given: In the first place, in them he will find a 
 detailed account of what the Commissioners have 
 essayed to do and the names of the Inspectors who 
 from time to time have acted under their authority. 
 
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 Then there is presented to him, summarily, the 
 results of the work of the Inspectors during successive 
 periods of time, showing the nature of the manuscripts 
 and papers examined, the periods to which they relate, 
 and the chief personages concerned. So that, faihng 
 a " General Guide " to all the Inspectors' Keports — a 
 work which has been projected and is in preparation, 
 but Part I. of which, dealing with them from a topo- 
 graphical standpoint, has alone been published hitherto 
 — a perusal of the brief or abbreviated accounts of 
 collections examined, appended in each case to the 
 Commissioners' Eeports, will be found to be extremely 
 helpful. A glance . through them, taking compara- 
 tively little time, will enable him to note which of 
 the Inspectors' Eeports give a promise of yielding the 
 information required, and which of them relate to the 
 period of his study. 
 
 To the Eighteenth Eeport of the Commissioners, 
 the last to date, pp. 308-348, 4;he student can refer for a 
 complete list of the names of the owners of manuscripts 
 upon whose collections Eeports had been made by their 
 Inspectors, and presented to Parliament and published, 
 up to July, 1916, showing also the places of deposit of 
 the respective collections at the time when the Eeports 
 were drawn up, and indicating the more considerable 
 groups of papers comprised in them. 
 
 This is followed by a topographical arrangement," 
 according to counties, of the foregoing collections. 
 
 This Eeport has also an Appendix, drawn up by Miss 
 F. G. Davenport, of " Materials for Enghsh Diplomatic 
 History, 1509 to 1783," calendared in the Eeports of 
 Inspectors, with reference to similar materials in the 
 British Museum. 
 
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 II.— THE EEPOETS OF INSPECTOES. 
 
 These Eeports, as already intimated, are the main 
 sources of information. Up to the year 1899, and in 
 connection with the first fifteen of the Eeports of the 
 Commissioners, they were entitled Appendices. Up to 
 the Ninth Eeport, issued in 1883-84, they are such 
 in fact, and are bound up with the respective Eeports. 
 After this. Inspectors* Eeports were issued as separate 
 8vo. volumes, but each volume still bore for a time the 
 title of Appendix, and was somewhat arbitrarily attri- 
 buted to a particular Eeport of the Commissioners. 
 This plan gave rise to some unnecessary mystification, 
 since sections of a Eeport on a single collection of 
 manuscripts, if it ran into a series of volumes, as in 
 many cases it did, were almost invariably attributed as 
 Appendices to different Eeports of the Commissioners. 
 Thus, for example, in the case of the manuscripts 
 belonging to the Earl of Dartmouth under this system, 
 for Vol. I., recourse must be had to the Eleventh 
 Eeport, Appendix V.; for Vol. II., to the Fourteenth 
 Eeport, Appendix X. ; and for Vol. III., to the Fifteenth 
 Eeport, Appendix I. ; while a supplement is also to be 
 found in the Thirteenth Eeport, Appendix IV. In 1899, 
 with a view to simplification, this system ceased, and 
 from that time onward a plan was adopted for all 
 Eeports of Inspectors, which had been already applied 
 to one great collection, the Cecil MSS., of giving to 
 them for title the names of their respective owners in 
 cases where they formed the entire contents of one or 
 more separate volumes; and where several collections 
 were grouped in one volume, this volume was made one 
 
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 of a series entitled "Various Collections." In both 
 cases titular connection with the successive Reports of 
 the Commissioners ceased. The volume entitled " A 
 Guide to the Reports," Part I., already referred to and 
 presently to be more particularly described, contains 
 suggestions and directions for bringing all the Reports, 
 whether entitled Appendices or not, from first to last, 
 into this simplified arrangement, and if these directions 
 are followed, and the volumes arranged and numbered 
 accordingly, the system of Reports and Appendices may 
 be entirely ignored. 
 
 From the nature of the circumstances under which 
 the operations of the Commission were carried out in 
 the first rush, and for some years subsequently, the 
 results obtained by some of the Inspectors engaged 
 upon the examination of manuscripts are not, in fact, 
 very informing as to the contents of the papers which 
 came under their notice. It was almost necessarily so, 
 because the Inspectors, in the course of a brief visit to 
 the owner's house or other place of deposit, were unable 
 to do more than note summarily the masses of corres- 
 pondence, etc., which they handled. To turn to some 
 of these early Reports for desired information will some- 
 times, therefore, be only a disappointment to the 
 student, for he will be merely told that the Inspector 
 found "A Bundle of Letters," or "Another Bundle 
 of Letters," etc., and will be supplied with no more 
 than a few dates and the names of some of the writers ; 
 or, to cite other examples, he will find such a state- 
 ment as " Several by the Duchess of Marlborough," 
 or " Queen Anne to Lord Treasurer Harley (between 
 fifty and sixty letters)," and nothing more; or 
 " Letters to His Grace [the Duke of Marlborough] 
 
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 from persons surnamed from A to Z," with no indica- 
 tion of what the letters are about. But, as will be 
 presently shown, all Eeports, even in these early- 
 volumes, are not quite so meagre and unsatisfactory 
 as those from which the examples given above are 
 extracted; and in every case one result is at least 
 attained : the knowledge where most valuable materials 
 are possibly to be found if access to them can be had 
 by permission of the owners. 
 
 From a certain point onward, the usefulness of the 
 Inspectors' Eeports increases. They often serve every 
 purpose that an examination of the originals would 
 fulfil, and even a better purpose, because the Eeport is 
 much easier to study, and gives the important infor- 
 mation, omitting all trivial and negligible matter. 
 
 As regards accessibility of original manuscripts at the 
 present time, a word or two of explanation will not be 
 out of place. Inasmuch as many years have elapsed 
 since the examination of many of these collections took 
 place, there is now no guarantee that there may not 
 have been during the interval a change of ownership 
 or some dealing with the manuscripts that renders them 
 less accessible than at the time of inspection. It is 
 also possible that disarrangement has taken place, and 
 that, in some cases, the collection has been dispersed 
 and even sold and sent abroad. 
 
 On the other hand, we may observe that the action 
 and inquiries of the Commissioners at once drew 
 attention to the value of papers that previously had 
 been considered to be mere lumber, and were conse- 
 quently exposed to every kind of neglect. When, to 
 take a notable instance, the casual discovery of a key 
 with a label, " Key of old writings over stable," led to 
 
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 the opening, for the first time for many years, of a 
 room curtained with eobwebs, the hunting-ground of 
 rats and mice, piled up with a mass of documents, from 
 which were ultimately selected the principal portions 
 of the fine collection of documents of the Duke of 
 Eutland, among them a deed of " Warwick, the King- 
 maker," owners of historic houses began to perceive 
 the mines of valuable material in their possession. 
 This led to investigation, and in many cases to proper 
 care and attention being given to manuscripts, which 
 were subsequently arranged and occasionally bound in 
 volumes. This is one of the ways in which the Com- 
 missioners have justified their existence, and from first 
 to last it is true to experience that, as they remark in 
 their* Second Eeport, their efforts have been " the 
 means of preventing those casualties to which valuable 
 collections of manuscripts are liable . . . casualties 
 arising not infrequently from changes in families, from 
 removal of manuscripts, and ignorance of localities to 
 which they have been transferred." 
 
 Another good result has been that private manu- 
 scripts, to which access would of necessity be difficult 
 and intermittent, have in a few cases passed by gift or 
 loan or purchase into the keeping of public institutions 
 such as the British Museum, the Public Eecord Office, 
 and the Bodleian Library. In the Public Eecord Office 
 are, for instance, at the present time, open to public 
 inspection (though not all through the direct action of 
 the Commission), the " Golden Grove Book " belonging 
 to Earl Cawdor; the " Cornwallis Papers " belonging to 
 Lord Braybrooke; the " Chatham Papers," an immense 
 series of correspondence of the first Earl of Chatham 
 and his son William Pitt, first entrusted to the care 
 
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 of the Commissioners and subsequently bequeathed to 
 the nation by their owner, -Admiral Pringle ; the 
 " Manchester Papers," the " Napier Papers," and the 
 " Shaftesbury Papers." 
 
 This appears to be an appropriate place to direct 
 particular attention to the work, already incidentally 
 mentioned, issued in 1914 under the auspices of the 
 Commissioners, and as one of their series, entitled 
 
 " A Guide to the Eeports on Collections of 
 Manuscripts," etc. Part I.: Topographical. 
 
 It is priced at one shilling; the reference to it, in order 
 to obtain it, is " Cd. 7594," and it is to be purchased 
 (as are the Eeports themselves, if not out of print, at 
 similar moderate prices) in London from Messrs. 
 Wyman and Sons, Ltd., 29, Breams Buildings, Fetter 
 Lane, E.C. ; in Edinburgh, from H.M. Stationery Office 
 (Scottish Branch), 23, Forth Street; and in Dublin 
 from E. Ponsonby, Ltd., 116, Grafton Street; or, 
 indeed, through any bookseller. 
 
 This work, as its title implies, is primarily a guide to 
 the Eeports from the topographical point of view. 
 
 If, therefore, the student's inquiries can be connected 
 with any county, city, town, or place within the British 
 Isles, with Scotland, Ireland, or Wales as a whole, with 
 the American Colonies, with India, or with a foreign 
 country, this part of the Guide, by means of the Index 
 /■\ of which it chiefly consists, will lead him direct to his 
 object, indicating the Eeports that should be consulted. 
 But in addition to this, pending the appearance of 
 Part II., which will consist of an index to persons and 
 matters, if he will use a little ingenuity, it will serve to 
 some extent as an aid for this further purpose also. 
 
 The volume in question also gives directions as to 
 
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 the order and numbering of Eeports on the Hbrary 
 shelves, so that the separate volumes, if more than one, 
 of the Keport on a particular collection of manuscripts, 
 can be brought together, and reference to the series 
 facilitated. It contains, moreover, a complete and 
 correct list of the Eeports issued up to the date of its 
 own appearance and of their contents, and at the end 
 another similar list, showing dates of publication, refer- 
 ence numbers as " Command papers," and price. 
 
 In consequence of the outbreak of war, one Eeport 
 only has been since added, namely, a Eeport upon the 
 Municipal Eecords of the City of Exeter. 
 
 The Eeports of Inspectors have all separate indexes, 
 though occasionally the index refers to more than one 
 volume, as in the cases of " Eutland," Vols. I. and II., 
 and the " Fortescue " or " Grenville Papers," Vols. I., 
 II., and III. 
 
 From the following survey* or analysis of contents of 
 collections of manuscripts upon which Eeports have 
 been drawn up and published. Ecclesiastical, Collegiate, 
 and Municipal Collections have been omitted, for this 
 reason among others, that with respect to them the 
 Topographical Guide gives a certain amount of help, 
 such as it does not give in the case of collections in 
 private ownership. This survey follows the order of the 
 Eeports given on pp. 1-14 of the Guide, and the short 
 titles are those found on p. 15 of the same work. 
 
 No. 1. First and Second Eeports. 
 
 The Eeports upon collections contained in the 
 Appendices to the First and Second Eeports of the 
 Commissioners are for the most part either preliminary 
 
 * The attention of students is particularly called to the fact that 
 this survey is not exhaustive. 
 
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 in character or brief summaries of classes of corres- 
 pondence or papers. There is, however (pp. 14-34), an 
 inventory of the Hatton Collection, among which are 
 fifteen very early deeds, between a.d. 624 and a.d. 1062 
 (see the list of these in the First Eeport of the Com- 
 missioners, pp. viii-ix). The correspondence in the 
 collection is arranged alphabetically, and there is a 
 short precis of the contents. On pp. 34-41 is a list of 
 the correspondence of George Stepney, 1694-1707, in 
 the Earl of Macclesfield's Collection, with a specimen of 
 a proposed calendar. The collection of the Earl of St. 
 Germans, at Port Eliot, Cornwall (pp. 41-44) contains 
 the manuscripts by and belonging to Sir John Eliot, and 
 includes also letters from Edward Gibbon, the historian. 
 Other Eeports in these two Appendices are mostly of a 
 very brief and summary character, and must be con- 
 sulted for particulars of their contents. A large number 
 of them relate to the collections belonging to the colleges 
 in the two Universities. The index to both Appendices 
 is at the end of the Second, and the First and Second 
 Eeports may be. regarded as one volume and be bound 
 up together. 
 
 No. 2. Third Eeport. 
 
 Appendix, pp. 45-185: Duke of Northumberland. — 
 The manuscripts extend from a.d. 1139 to a.d. 1696. 
 There is a brief calendar of a portion of them. Other 
 notices give merely first and last dates of collections of 
 correspondence. 
 
 Appendix, p. 125: Marquess of Lansdowne. — Collec- 
 tion made by William, Earl of Shelburne, afterwards 
 first Marquess, from 1754 : first section. 
 
 Appendix, p. 281: Phelips' Mfif/Sf.— 1585-1686, con- 
 taining much information as to the Gunpowder Plot, etc. 
 
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 No. 3. Fourth Eeport. 
 Appendix, pp. 276-317: Earl de la Warr.— Manu- 
 scripts at Knole Park. Consisting of correspondence 
 and papers of the first Earl of Middlesex, from the 
 latter end of the reign of Elizabeth to his death in 1645, 
 and other papers down to the eighteenth century. 
 
 No. 4. Fifth Eeport. 
 
 Appendix, pp. 135-214: Duke of Sutherland. — Ten 
 volumes of original letters, 1598-1601, and a folio 
 volume of seventeenth-century copies of Koyal and 
 other letters, speeches, etc., of the fifteenth, sixteenth, 
 and seventeenth centuries. 
 
 Appendix, p. 215: Marquess of Lansdowne. Shel- 
 hurne Manuscripts continued. — Papers relating to 
 America. 
 
 Appendix, p. 308: Sir A. Malet. — Papers from the 
 reign of Henry VIII. to 1688. Several relate to Mary, 
 Queen of Scots. One volume is entirely on the subject 
 of the birth of the Pretender. 
 
 No. 5. Sixth Eeport. 
 
 Appendix, p. 235 : Marquess of Lansdowne : Shelburne 
 MSS., third section. — (1) Papers relating to the East 
 Indies. (2) Papers relating to Ireland : eighteenth 
 century. (3) Alphabetical list of correspondents, with 
 respective dates of letters, 1760-1800. (4) Family 
 correspondence, and miscellaneous. 
 
 AppendiXf p. 243: Marquess of Ripon. — Fountains 
 Abbey documents : volumes on peerage, heraldry, and 
 genealogy; abstracts of early deeds, chiefly relating to 
 Cheshire. 
 
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 Appendix, p. 287: Lord Leconfield: Manuscripts at 
 Petworth House. — ^Many of these were the property of 
 Henry, ninth Earl of Northumberland, who was 
 employed in foreign service by Queen Elizabeth. Under 
 suspicion of having been privy to the Gunpowder Plot,* 
 he was kept prisoner in the Tower for many years, 
 where he had for companions Sir Walter Ealegh and 
 the astronomer and mathematician Harriot. Other 
 manuscripts were accumulated during the official 
 career of Algernon, tenth Earl, who was Lord High 
 Admiral. Official papers of the eighteenth century were 
 derived from the Earl of Egremont, who held the office 
 of Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 
 1761 to 1763. 
 
 Appendix, p. 322: Sir R. Graham. — Chiefly seven- 
 teenth century. Much information about horses and 
 stable matters ; accounts of Eoyal progress of James I. ; 
 papers of Henry Slingesby, Master of the Mint, temp. 
 Charles H. ; correspondence 1603-1660, 1663-1683, 
 1665-1780, etc. 
 
 Appendix, p. 352: Sir Henry Ingilhy. — Manuscript 
 volumes, including portion of Eegister of Fountains 
 Abbey; Eegister of Bridlington Priory; Beda's Eccle- 
 siastical History; Nennius; Annals of Ealph de Diceto, 
 etc. Paston Letters (Sir Eobert Paston, first Earl of 
 Yarmouth), 1660-1678; Letters to Ealph Palmer, of the 
 Middle Temple and Chelsea, 1690-1736. 
 
 Appendix, p. 395: Sir E. Strachey. — (1) Manuscripts 
 of John Strachey, F.E.S.; materials for history of 
 Somersetshire, etc. (2) Manuscripts of Sir Henry 
 Strachey, first Baronet, including correspondence with 
 Lord Clive, as his private secretary in India, and papers 
 relating to American War of Independence, 1774-1778, 
 
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 and the Anglo-American Treaty of Paris, 1782. (3) 
 Kirkpatrick Papers, chiefly official papers of General 
 Wilham Kirkpatrick and Colonel James Achilles Kirk- 
 patrick, serving in the East Indies under the Marquess 
 Wellesley. 
 
 Appendix, p. 4:18: P. B. D. Cooke, Esq. — Volumes, 
 letters, etc., connected with the counties of Fhnt and 
 Denbigh and Yorkshire; original manuscript of the 
 Liher Landavensis, 1107-1134; Liber SanctcB Marice of 
 Holmcultram (or Coltram or Coltran) Abbey, Cumber- 
 land, etc. ; Puleston Papers. 
 
 Appendix, p. 426: Miss ffarington. — Evesham Abbey 
 deeds; papers connected with the Derby family, temp. 
 Henry VIII. et seq.; Protectorate Papers; correspon- 
 dence of Eichard Bradshaw, Eesident at Hamburg, 
 1650-1659 (extensively extracted), etc. 
 
 Appendix, p. 448: F. Bacon Frank, Esq. — Collec- 
 tions for the civil and ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire, 
 etc., and transcripts of Talbot Papers at Sheffield Castle 
 for the Lives of the Earls of Shrewsbury. 
 
 Appendix, p. 468: T. 8. Raffles, Esq. — Collection of 
 autograph letters and papers classified in more than one 
 hundred volumes. 
 
 No. 6. Seventh Eeport. 
 
 Appendix, p. 249: Lord Sackville : Manuscripts at 
 Knole. — Further account of these manuscripts of the 
 period of Lionel Cranfield, first Earl of Middlesex, and 
 later. See No. 3, p. 15 supra. 
 
 Appendix, p. 261 : Sir F. Graham. — Chiefly the official 
 papers of Sir Eichard Graham, Viscount Preston, 
 appointed in 1682 Envoy-Extraordinary to the Court of 
 
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 France. They belong to the period 1682-1689, and are 
 noticed in detail and fairly fully abstracted. 
 
 Appendix, p. 433: Sir Harry Verney. — This collec- 
 tion consists of a great number of deeds, wills, charters, 
 etc. (earliest a.d. 1256); records of the Abbey of 
 Abingdon; and many thousands of private letters 
 between 1630 and 1699, and a very large number of the 
 eighteenth century. 
 
 Appendix, p. 609: Ayscough Fawhes, Esq. — Four 
 large folio volumes of reports of cases in the King's 
 Bench, 3-12 George II. 
 
 Appendix, p. 518: G. E, Frere, Esq. — Originals of 
 the third and fourth volumes of the Paston Letters; 
 letters of Philip Gawdy, temp. Elizabeth and James I. ; 
 and correspondence of Eobert, Earl of Yarmouth, sup- 
 plementing Sir Henry Ingilby's Collection (see Sixth 
 Eeport, Appendix, p. 352). 
 
 Appendix, p. 537: George Allan Lowndes, Esq. — 
 This collection includes charters of the Priory of 
 Hatfield Eegis, etc., beginning in the twelfth century; 
 early Court EoUs of the Forest of Hatfield; corres- 
 pondence relating to military and other affairs of the 
 County of Essex of the reign of Elizabeth, and particu- 
 larly at the beginning of the Great Eebellion. 
 
 Appendix, p. 590: Captain H. G. St. John 
 M ildmay .^-The earlier portion of this collection is con- 
 nected with Sir George Harvey, Knt., Lieutenant of 
 the Tower in 1603, the later after 1620; Jewel House 
 and other seventeenth- century papers of Colonel F. 
 Carew Harvey Mildmay, ote of the officers of the Jewel 
 House from 1625 to 1667 or a few years later, and also 
 one of the Verderers of the Forest of Waltham. 
 
 Appendix, p. 596: W. More-Molyneux, Esq., Loseley 
 
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 Manuscripts. — Papers chiefly belonging to Tudor times, 
 most of them Elizabethan, but extending also to the 
 reigns of James I., Charles I., Charles II., and con- 
 taining also a few of the eighteenth century. They 
 consist of the papers of Sir Thomas Cawarden, a 
 member of Henry VIII. 's Privy Council, who was 
 Keeper of the Tents, Master of the Eevels, and Keeper 
 of the Palace and Park of Nonesuch, to Henry VIII., 
 Edward VL, Mary, and Elizabeth. On his death, in 
 the second year of Elizabeth's reign, his accumulated 
 manuscripts became the property of his friend and 
 executor, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Thomas More, of Loseley 
 House, Surrey, who also acquired, on Lady Cawarden 's 
 death, the Blackfriars Estate, London, and was thus 
 connected with Eichard Burbadge's Blackfriars 
 Theatre and the Shakespearean drama. Sir WiUiam 
 More was twice Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey. His son, 
 Sir George More, was the third contributor to the col- 
 lection, which is extraordinarily rich in information 
 regarding the County of Surrey. An inadequate 
 account of the manuscripts is given by Mr. A. J. 
 Kempe's volume entitled " Losely Manuscripts," pub- 
 lished in 1835. M. FeuiUerat's work. Documents relat- 
 ing to the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth, is 
 derived from this collection. 
 
 Appendix, p. 681: The Rev. T. W. Webb.— These 
 consist of Coningsby Papers, correspondence of the 
 Coningsby family during the reigns of James I. and 
 Charles I. ; a volume of letters of the Duke of Somerset 
 to Serjeant Thomas Pengelly, temp. George I. ; letters 
 and papers relating to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; 
 papers regarding Richard Cromwell, the Protector; 
 Civil War Papers; North Monmouthshire Papers; 
 
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 letters of Thomas Otway, a minister imprisoned in 
 Ilchester Gaol for complicity in the insurrection in the 
 West, from the time of the usurpation to 1687; letters 
 to Thomas Pengelly, merchant, from Aleppo, Smyrna, 
 Virginia, and Barbados, 1650-1674; professional papers 
 of Serjeant Pengelly; etc. 
 
 No. 7. The Eighth Eeport, 
 
 This was originally issued in three parts, with 
 separate index for each. All three parts in this folio 
 edition are now out of print, but Parts I. and II. were, 
 in 1907 and 1910 respectively, re-issued in 8vo. as 
 " Stationery Office pubhcations " at an enhanced price. 
 Part I. is in three sections, e6,ch section making a 
 stout volume. The re-issues should preferably be 
 consulted. 
 
 Section I. 
 
 P. 1: Duke of Marlborough. — This collection com- 
 prises early charters of the Monastery of St. Albans; 
 Civil War and Protectorate papers,, but (chiefly) papers 
 of John, first Duke of Marlborough, and of Charles, 
 Earl of Sunderland, including the letter-books of the 
 latter, 1683-1710. Also letters from General Palmes, 
 1708, 1709, and 1710, while in attendance on the Duke 
 of Savoy; letters of Eichard Steele while in the army; 
 and upwards of three hundred letters from Anne, as 
 Princess and Queen, to Sarah Jennings as Lady 
 Churchill and Countess and Duchess of Marlborough. 
 
 P. 60: Earl of Portsmouth. — (1) Miscellaneous 
 papers, including journals of proceedings in Parliament, 
 between 1721 and 1727. (2) Sir Isaac Newton's Mint 
 Papers, three large folio volumes relating to the history 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 21 
 
 and affairs of the Mint, the majority in Sir Isaac's 
 handwriting. (Sir Isaac Newton's scientific manu- 
 scripts have been presented to the University of 
 Cambridge.) 
 
 P. 92: Earl of Jerseij. — Household charges of King 
 Edward III. ; Exchequer customs accounts, 2 and 3 
 Phihp and Mary to 35 Elizabeth ; copy of Sir Symonds 
 D'Ewes' " Parliamentarie Journal, A° 35° Eeg. Eliz. 
 A.D. 1592"; "Observations upon the Provinces 
 United " and " Observations on the State of France," 
 attributed to Sir Thomas Overbury; Exchequer 
 accounts, 1656-1658; Diary of the proceedings of the 
 Treaty of Peace between England and Spain and the 
 Archduke Albert, 1604; etc. 
 
 P. 174: Lord Emly. — Correspondence, etc., of 
 Edmund Sexten Pery, Speaker of the House of Com- 
 mons in Ireland from 1771 to 1785. 
 
 P. 208: Ralph Bankes, Esq. — Papers of Sir J. 
 Bankes, Chief Justice, temp. Charles I. ; correspon- 
 dence between him and the Parliamentary leaders, 
 1642; minutes of the Parliamentary Committee of the 
 County of Dorset, 1646-1650; etc. 
 
 P. 213 : G. W. Dighy, Esq. — Correspondence between 
 Eight Hon. H. Fox, Lord Uchester, Lord Digby, and 
 H. Digby, 1753-1757, during the time of the political 
 rivalry between Henry Fox and the Duke of Newcastle 
 and Mr. Pitt. 
 
 P. 277 : Lord Brayhrooke. — This collection comprised 
 the official (American and East Indian) papers of 
 Charles Cornwalhs, second Earl and first Marquis 
 Cornwallis, 1741-1819, since presented to the nation 
 and deposited in the Public Eecord Office; Account 
 Book of the Wardens of the Parish Church of Walden, 
 
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 CO. Essex (17 Hen. VI. to 5 Hen. VH.); two cartu- 
 laries and register of deeds of Sir Thomas Cornwaleys, 
 Knt. (1 Mary to 25 Eliz.); household books of the Duke 
 of York, 1660-1673; papers of Sir Henry Neville, of 
 Billingbere, Ambassador to France, 1599-1600 (partly 
 published in Sawyer's " Memorialls of Affairs of State 
 in the Eeigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James the 
 First ' ') ; and papers of Eichard Neville Aldworth 
 Neville, M.P., Under-Secretary of State, Secretary to 
 the British Embassy at Paris during the negotiations 
 for the Definitive Treaty, 1763, and subsequently 
 H.B.M.'s Charg^ d'Affaires and Minister-Plenipo- 
 tentiary at the French Court. 
 
 Eighth Report, Appendix, Part II. 
 
 Duke of Manchester. — The calendar of this collection 
 fills the whole of the volume. The papers of a public 
 nature which it comprises are deposited in the Public 
 Eecord Office, and are open to inspection. They con- 
 sist of Montagu and Eich family papers ; Augmentation 
 Office documents of the reign of Henry VHI. ; papers 
 of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., including a 
 section relating to Ireland ; Colonial papers of the reign 
 of James I. and Charles I., including voyages to 
 Virginia, colonisation of the Bermudas, illustrations in 
 the colonial papers of English mariners and customs, 
 etc. ; domestic and miscellaneous papers of the reigns 
 of Charles I. to George III., including papers connected 
 with the embassy of the fourth Earl of Manchester to 
 Venice in 1699 (the Partition Treaty) and to Paris 
 1699-1701 : also as Secretary of State, 1701-02; the last 
 letters from the Duchess of Marlborough; letters of 
 George Montagu to Horace Walpole ; etc. 
 
HISTOKICAL MSS. COMMISSION 23 
 
 Eighth Report, Avvendix, Part III. 
 
 This Eeport on the manuscripts of the Earl of 
 Ashburnham exists only in the original folio edition, 
 and is out of print. Hitherto there has been no reissue 
 of it, as the collection has been purchased by the 
 British Museum. This collection is a collection of 
 collections, each of which may be again subdivided into 
 others, containing upwards of three thousand " manu- 
 scripts," so called, though many of them consist of 
 several volumes. It contains the splendid series 
 brought together at Stowe by George, Marquess of 
 Buckingham, and those due to the antiquarian zeal of 
 the late Earl of Ashburnham, of M. Barrois, and of 
 Professor Libri. The Stowe MSS. include the library 
 of manuscripts of Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Eecords 
 in the Tower; among them are a volume of Anglo-Saxon 
 charters ; the psalter of King Alfred the Great ; a "Ward- 
 robe Book of Edward II. ; the Eegister of Hyde Abbey; 
 inventories of Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe, plate and 
 jewels; Hanoverian State Papers and other collections 
 of original letters; original accounts in the handwriting 
 of Cardinal Wolsey; the historical and antiquarian 
 papers and correspondence of Mr. Anstis, Garter King 
 of Arms; correspondence of Lord Chancellor Maccles- 
 field and of Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle; Mr. 
 Secretary Coventry's State Papers of the reign of 
 Charles II. ; Mr. Secretary Stanhope's Despatches, etc., 
 during his residence at The Hague in the reign of 
 "William III. ; the correspondence of Mr. Eichard 
 Phelps, "Under-Secretary of State in the early part of 
 George III.'s reign; and many curious works and 
 papers from the libraries of well-known antiquaries. 
 
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 To these were subsequently added the ancient Irish 
 and other manuscripts relating to the history and 
 antiquities of Ireland, formerly belonging to Mr. 
 O 'Conor, of Belanagare, co. Eoscommon, the historian 
 of Ireland; and the correspondence, State Papers, etc., 
 formerly belonging to Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, 
 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in the reign of Charles 11. 
 
 The original letters are almost of every reign from 
 Edward III. to George III. Many are from foreign 
 Princes, beginning with the Doge of Venice, Andrea 
 Contarini; and ending with Napoleon Bonaparte when 
 Eirst Consul. A remarkably interesting volume con- 
 tains original letters and other historical documents of 
 the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., several of 
 which are from the Abbots of Eeligious Houses con- 
 cerning calumnious reports that had been made against 
 them and the contributions to be levied on their 
 monasteries. In this volume is the original declara- 
 tion of the eight bishops in favour of the King's power 
 in ecclesiastical affairs, and maintaining that Christian 
 Kings may make ecclesiastical laws. 
 
 No. 8. Ninth Eeport, Appendix, Part II. 
 
 P. 330: Lord Macartney. — This collection consists of 
 five volumes of contemporary transcripts of public and 
 private letters from Lord Macartney, when Governor of 
 Madras, to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Eyre Coote, 
 Warren Hastings, Governor of Bengal, and John 
 Macpherson; with letters from "Warren Hastings and 
 private communications between Macartney and 
 Macpherson, 1780-1785. 
 
 P. 340: The Rinuccini MS. — ^This consists of eight 
 large folio volumes in the collection of the Earl of 
 
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 Leicester at Holkham, Norfolk, known as " The 
 Nuncio's Memoirs," the work of Giovanni Batista 
 Einuccini, Archbishop of Fermo, who was sent by Pope 
 Innocent X. as Nuncio to Ireland in 1645, at the request 
 of the Irish Confederation' Its title is De Hceresis 
 Anglicance intrusione et progressu, et de Bello Catholico 
 ad annum 1641 ccepto, exindeque p^r aliquot annos 
 gesto, Commentarius. It begins with the early history 
 of Ireland, and ends in January 1645-46. It has been 
 partly printed. 
 
 P. 357: Earl of Leicester. — A great variety of foho 
 and quarto manuscript volumes from the thirteenth to 
 the seventeenth centuries, belonging to or connected 
 with Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the Common 
 Pleas and of the King's Bench, 1606-1616, with pro- 
 ceedings in Parliament; a fifteenth- century copy of 
 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ^nd other literary works, 
 legal documents, diplomatic and State Papers, etc. 
 
 P. 375: EaH Manvers. — Kentals, surveys, etc., of 
 manors in the counties of Notts and Derby; charters, 
 pleas of the Forest of Sherwood, etc. 
 
 P. 379: Earl of Pembroke. — Deeds, etc., relating to 
 the Abbey of Wilton; rolls of accounts of the Manor of 
 Alveston; correspondence, 1778-1791. 
 
 P. 384: H. C. Pole-Gell, Esq.— This collection 
 includes Year Books of the fifteenth and sixteenth 
 centuries; documents relating to Anthony Gell, who 
 was Queen Elizabeth's feodary for Derbyshire, and also 
 a member of the Inner Temple and principal of 
 Clement's Inn; copies of treatises by and against 
 Father Persons ; precis of the Negotiation of Courcelles, 
 the French Ambassador to Scotland, concerning the 
 trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; copies of 
 
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 letters and tracts by Sir W. Ealegh and Sir 0. 
 Cornwallis; account of Sir Anthony Gell's military 
 proceedings in 1642 and 1643; accounts of one of the 
 Stewards of the Inner Temple for two of the Christmas 
 weeks; copies of statements regarding the origin of the 
 Fire of London in 1666; a paper showing the state of 
 the Navy, temp. Charles II ; letters, etc., of Philip 
 Gell in 1675, who was taken prisoner by pirates, while 
 in captivity; news-letters, 1702-1733; etc., with many 
 early deeds. 
 
 P. 406: Alfred Morrison, Esq. — A most extensive and 
 miscellaneous collection of autographed letters and 
 other documents of exalted and distinguished person- 
 ages from A.D. 1300 to a.d. 1862. 
 
 P. 493: Rev. W. Pyne and Rev. A. J. Woodforde.— 
 Documents relating to Colonel J. Pyne, of Curry Mallet, 
 Somersetshire, who was a member of the Long Parlia- 
 ment and took a prominent part against the King in 
 the West ; and Diary of Robert Woodforde, Steward of 
 Northampton, 1637-1641. 
 
 No. 9. Cecil. 
 
 Marquess of Salisbury: the Cecil MSS. — Notices and 
 lists of these manuscripts appear in the Appendices to 
 the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Eeports 
 of the Commissioners, but these may be now considered 
 to be almost entirely superseded by the detailed 
 Calendar so far as it has proceeded. Of this Calendar 
 thirteen volumes have been published, bringing it down 
 to the end of the reign of Elizabeth as regards the main 
 portion of the collection. A fourteenth volume, con- 
 taining, as does the thirteenth, supplementary papers 
 which escaped notice in the former volumes in their 
 
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 proper chronological order, will complete the period. 
 The series of these most important political and other 
 documents commences in 1306, but papers of earlier 
 date than the reign of Elizabeth are comparatively few. 
 For the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., however, 
 they constitute a body of State Papers illustrative of 
 general events and political transactions, with which 
 the State Papers preserved in the Public Kecord Office 
 are alone comparable. It would be in vain to attempt 
 to analyse or classify the contents of the published 
 volumes, each of which, of course, has been carefully 
 indexed. 
 
 No. 11. Gawdy. 
 
 Tenth Report, Appendix II. : The Gawdy MSS. — A 
 collection of letters formed by Peter le Neve, Norroy 
 King of Arms (b. 1661, d. 1729), relating chiefly to the 
 Norfolk families of Gawdy, Knyvet, Hobart, Hare, and 
 Le Neve, contained in seventeen volumes and number- 
 ing 3,276, extending over the reigns of Elizabeth, 
 James L, Charles I., Charles II., and James II. The 
 Gawdy letters are the earliest in date, and give an 
 interesting description of the domestic and social life of 
 the period. 
 
 The next largest portion of the collection consists of 
 letters addressed to Oliver le Neve, brother of Peter, 
 who married Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir John 
 Gawdy and Anne de Grey. 
 
 All sections of the collection have the same general 
 characteristics. 
 
 There are, besides, several news-letters or gazettes, 
 treating mostly of political matters. 
 
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 No. 17. House of Lords. 
 
 House of Lords. — This Eeport has been from the 
 first a detailed calendar of the papers, and begins with 
 two specimen sections — (a) relating to the first 
 Parliament of Charles I., and (b) Archbishop Laud's 
 Visitation — in the Appendix to the Second Eeport of 
 the Commissioners. In the Appendix to the Third 
 Eeport the systematic calendar makes a commence- 
 ment with a charter of the year 1450. Continuations 
 regularly appear in the appendices to following Eeports 
 up to the Ninth, ending with July 15, 1678. After this 
 come separate volumes, the first four covering the 
 period 1678-1693. From this point the calendar was 
 continued independently of the Commissioners, but 
 exactly on the same lines, by the authority of the House 
 of Lords itself, in a so-called " New Series," which has 
 now been brought down in six volumes to 1706. 
 
 For House of Lords documents, consult also Lord 
 Braye's MSS. 
 
 No. 15. Tenth Eeport, Appendix VI. 
 
 Lord Braye's MSS. — John Browne, Clerk of the Long 
 Parliament, having retained certain official documents, 
 properly belonging to the archives of the House of 
 Lords, these have remained in Lord Braye's collection. 
 
 No. 19. TOWNSHEND. 
 
 The Marquess Townshend. — The papers noticed in 
 this Eeport were formerly at Eaynham, but were sold 
 in 1911. They consisted of the following : 
 
 1. Some correspondence of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 
 half-brother of the famous Lord Chancellor, and other 
 
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 papers — e.g., a series of college bills at Cambridge from 
 1605 to 1610; warrants of commitment to the Tower, 
 1675-1677 ; and a large collection of songs, lampoons, 
 etc., of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 
 
 2. Despatches addressed to or concerning the second 
 Viscount Townshend, during his embassy at The Hague, 
 1709-1711. 
 
 3. Despatches from Admiral Sir John Norris, in com- 
 mand of the Expedition to the Baltic in 1715. 
 
 4. Jacobite Papers, 1703-1727, especially of 1715, 
 and later, when Viscount Townshend was Secretary 
 of State. 
 
 5. Letters and accounts of Spencer Compton, after- 
 wards Earl of Wilmington, when Treasurer to Prince 
 George of Denmark, and later to the Prince of Wales, 
 afterwards King George II. 
 
 6. Papers relating to the Tower of London, chiefly 
 1712-1715. 
 
 7. Private correspondence of Elizabeth, Countess of 
 Northampton, 1713-1737. 
 
 8. Papers relating to American Plantations, 1700- 
 1740. 
 
 9. Letters relating to the Canadian expedition under 
 General Wolfe, whom George Townshend, afterwards 
 fourth Viscount and first Marquess, accompanied as 
 Brigadier-General, and to whom, after Wolfe's death, 
 he succeeded in command. 
 
 10. Miscellaneous letters and papers of the eighteenth 
 century, including some of the statesman Charles 
 Townshend, and correspondence in 1752 between the 
 third Lord Townshend and the Eev. Josiah Tucker, 
 afterwards Dean of Gloucester. 
 
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 No. 20. Dartmouth. 
 
 The Earl of Dartmouth. — A short account of the 
 manuscripts in this collection is in the Appendix to the 
 Second Eeport. This was subsequently enlarged into 
 a detailed Eeport in three volumes. 
 
 Volume I., 1660-1800, includes, among other 
 material — 
 
 1. Papers of the Eestoration period, among them 
 letters from Prince Eupert to Colonel William Legge, 
 in 1661, when on a mission to Vienna, and of the Duke 
 of Ormonde to the same, bearing upon Irish Govern- 
 ment; two or three ships' journals, at the time of the 
 naval engagements with the Dutch fleet in 1673, and 
 other naval papers; letters from Jamaica; some papers 
 illustrating the English occupation of Nieuport in 
 Flanders in 1678; and letters from the Duke of York 
 between 1679 and 1682, when banished from Court. 
 
 2. Materials for the history of the English possession 
 of Tangier, part of the dowry brought to Charles H. by 
 Catherine of Braganza. 
 
 3. Correspondence of the last three months of the 
 year 1688, when Lord Dartmouth was placed in com- 
 mand of the English fleet sent out to intercept the 
 Dutch under the Prince of Orange, an important contri- 
 bution to the history of the time. 
 
 4. Papers of the second Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary 
 for the Colonial Department from 1772 to 1775, rich in 
 material for the history of the struggle for American 
 independence. 
 
 Volume II. : American papers, 1676-1839, but chiefly 
 between 1772 and 1775 subdivided into — (a) those relat- 
 ing to the original thirteen colonies and the War of Inde- 
 
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 pendence ; (h) those relating to the West India Islands ; 
 (c) those referring to the Colonies north of the United 
 States : Canada, Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, 
 and the Island of St. John. 
 
 Volume III. is made up of papers supplementary to 
 the previous volumes, which, with the exception of lists 
 of armour in the Tower and elsewhere, begin at the 
 Restoration. Subjects include — Irish affairs after the 
 Restoration. Naval affairs, 1671-1673. Journals of 
 Admiral Sir Edward Spragg. Destruction and abandon- 
 ment of Tangier. Correspondence of second Lord 
 Dartmouth — "the good Lord Dartmouth" — 1772 
 et seq., illustrating the Evangelical Movement of the 
 eighteenth century, with correspondence of Rev. John 
 Newton, of Olney, friend of the poet Cowper, John 
 Wesley, and others; affairs of India; letters of 
 Alexander Macaulay to Viscount Lewisham afterwards 
 third Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Theatrical and similar schemes at the beginning of 
 the nineteenth century, etc. 
 
 No. 23. CowPER. 
 
 Earl Cowper: The Coke MSS. at Melbourne Hall, 
 Derbyshire (three volumes). — This is a vast collection 
 of documents, the earlier portion of which was brought 
 together by Sir John Coke, Secretary of State in the 
 reign of Charles I. It contains many sixteenth- century 
 letters addressed to Lord Burghley as Lord-Lieutenant 
 of Lincolnshire; numerous papers on the state of the 
 Navy in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. ; corre- 
 spondence with Sir Fulke Greville, afterwards Lord 
 Brooke; progresses of Charles I. in Scotland in 1633 
 
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 and 1639 ; correspondence describing events of the Civil 
 War, etc. 
 
 The later portion of the collection consists mainly, 
 but not entirely, of the correspondence of Thomas Coke, 
 Vice-Chamberlain during a period of twenty years to 
 Queen Anne and George I., bearing upon public and 
 private affairs, the subjects ranging between the cam- 
 paigns in Flanders as seen from the point of view of 
 officers serving therein, sport during William HI.'s 
 visits to the Loo in Gelderland, the doings of Court and 
 Parliament, horse-racing, and election intrigues in 
 Derbyshire and elsewhere. 
 
 No. 24. EUTLAND. 
 
 The Duke of Rutland (four volumes). — This collection 
 has a large number of mediaeval deeds. 
 
 The main interest of the Calendar begins with the 
 correspondence of Henry Vernon of Haddon, a prudent 
 courtier who found favour with Lancastrians and 
 Yorkists in turn. There is a great deal of material for 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The second volume ends 
 with an allusion to the death of the Marquess of 
 Granby in October, 1770. The third volume covers a 
 short period only of the reign of George HI., 1771-1787, 
 dealing fully with important affairs of state. 
 
 The fourth volume consists of three sections — (i.) 
 Ancient charters, cartularies, etc. (ii.) Letters and 
 papers supplementary to those noticed in the three 
 previous volumes, (iii.) Books of household and other 
 accounts, including one belonging to Sir Thomas Lovel, 
 a prominent minister in the reign of Henry VII. These 
 books illustrate local and family history, social customs, 
 
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 the maimer of living, food, drink, the history of prices, 
 trade, amusements, costume, etc. 
 
 No. 29. Portland. 
 
 The Duke of Portland, Volumes I. to 7771. — This 
 collection has been treated in sections. The first 
 volume calendars twenty-two manuscript volumes, the 
 " Collections " of Dr. John Nalson and Dr. Philip 
 Williams, papers of the seventeenth century, with many 
 relative to the Civil War. Some of these had already 
 been printed in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Volume II. also contains papers chiefly of the 
 seventeenth century, but these are preceded by some 
 early charters and Eoyal letters. They are connected 
 with the Vere, Penn, HoUes, Cavendish, and Harley 
 families. The Eoyal letters include documents of this 
 sort from Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Mary, Queen 
 of Scots, Catherine de Medici, Henry IV. of France, 
 and James VI. of Scotland (James I. of England). 
 There is a series of letters from King Charles II. to 
 various persons whose names are written in cipher, sent 
 over for delivery, but apparently never used. Of the 
 Penn letters, many are additional to those printed in 
 the Memorials of Sir William. Penn. 
 
 This volume further contains a correspondence 
 between John, Duke of Newcastle, and Eobert Harley 
 in 1704 and following years. 
 
 Volumes III. to VIII. deal with the ** Harley 
 papers " proper, concerning the history of the Harley 
 family in the seventeenth century, and consisting of 
 the correspondence of Eobert Harley, afterwards Lord 
 Treasurer and Earl of Oxford, of his father, grandfather, 
 
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 and great-grandfather before him, and of the son who 
 succeeded him. 
 
 Volume IV. begins the Harley correspondence, the 
 main portion ranging in date between 1701 and end of 
 1711, just after Eobert Harley 's elevation to the 
 peerage as Earl of Oxford and his appointment to the 
 supreme office of Lord Treasurer. This volume reveals 
 the intimate relations for public purposes which existed 
 for many years between Harley and De Foe. Among 
 the numerous correspondents are Bishop Atterbury, 
 Godolphin, John Drummond, a Scotch merchant and 
 banker, settled at Amsterdam, and Captain John 
 Ogilvie, of the Airlie branch of that family, for many 
 years a spy in Harley 's employ. 
 
 Volume V. continues the Harley correspondence 
 from 1711 to 1724, including the correspondence of De 
 Foe, Drummond, etc., with, of course, additions from 
 new correspondents. 
 
 Volume VI. completes this correspondence, from 
 1725 to 1740, and contains the index to this and the 
 three previous volumes. 
 
 Volume VII. consists of letters of Dr. William 
 Stratford, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, to Edward 
 Harley, afterwards Lord Harley and second Earl of 
 Oxford, between 1710 and 1729, containing much con- 
 cerning Dean (afterwards Bishop) Atterbury, and the 
 antagonism between the two. The volume has many 
 references to the Lord Treasurer and to other members 
 or connections of the Harley family. 
 
 Volume VIII., the last, so far, of the series, making 
 Volume VI. of the distinct Harley papers, belongs 
 chiefly to the period 1700 to February, 1708, when 
 Bobert Harley held successively the posts of Speaker of 
 
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 the House of Commons and Secretary of State. It 
 contains three principal groups of documents — viz., (i.) 
 petitions and memorials sent to Harley himseK as 
 Speaker or as Secretary, and a considerable number 
 addressed to the Queen or to Parliament; (ii.) docu- 
 ments relating to the Navy; and (iii.) papers on 
 Scottish affairs, with several papers, of an earlier date, 
 on English ecclesiastical matters, and others of a 
 miscellaneous character. 
 
 No. 30. Fortes CUE. 
 
 The Fortescue, or Grenville, or Dropmore, MSS. — 
 This series extends to eight volumes, but does not quite 
 complete the calendar of the papers, which has been 
 brought to a temporary stay both by reason of the war 
 and the death of the learned editor, Mr. Walter 
 Fitzpatrick, who has written some illuminating and 
 instructive Introductions to the successive volumes, 
 which the student should carefully read. 
 
 The collection occupies about three hundred small 
 portfolios, arranged by the founder of Dropmore, Lord 
 Grenville, after his retirement from public life. 
 
 The first volume covers the greater part of the 
 eighteenth century down to 1790. It commences with 
 the correspondence of Thomas Pitt, Governor of 
 Madras for the East India Company, and founder of 
 that branch of the family which produced two of 
 England's greatest statesmen. In addition, there is in 
 this volume the correspondence of Anne Pitt, Maid of 
 Honour to Queen Caroline, possessing both literary and 
 social interest of a high order, from 1734 to 1768; and 
 the correspondence of William Wyndham Grenville, 
 beginning with his official Life in 1782 and continuing to 
 his elevation to the peerage at the close of 1790. 
 
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 The remaining seven volumes deal with Lord 
 Grenville's correspondence from 1791 to 1806. It is 
 unnecessary to emphasise the extreme value of this 
 series of volumes for the political history of England 
 during the period. 
 
 No. 35. Kenyon. 
 
 Lord Kenyon. — This collection begins with the 
 seventeenth century, and contains material for a history 
 of Lancashire, ecclesiastical, social, and political, 
 besides much useful matter for the compilation of the 
 personal history of many Lancashire families, especially 
 those which had their origin in or around Liverpool, 
 Manchester, and Wigan. 
 
 No. 38. EouRTEENTH Eeport, Appendix IX. 
 
 Earl of Buckinghamshire. — Correspondence, etc., of 
 Eobert Trevor, afterwards Viscount Hampden, during 
 his embassy to The Hague, 1763-1746, where he suc- 
 ceeded Horatio Walpole. 
 
 No. 39. HODGKIN. 
 
 I. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., of Richmond, Surrey. — Here 
 will be found — 
 
 (1) Pepys' correspondence, 1661-1701. 
 
 (2) Correspondence of the Earl of Danby and Ealph 
 Montagu when the latter was Ambassador in France in 
 1678. 
 
 (3) Correspondence of the Duke of Ormonde after he 
 succeeded Marlborough as Commander-in-Chief in the 
 Low Countries early in 1712. 
 
 (4) Papers relating to the Old and Young Pretenders 
 and their adherents, and the Chevalier D'Eon. 
 
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 (5) Collections relating to Charles I., the Civil Wars, 
 and Charles II. 
 
 (6) Miscellaneous. 
 
 No. 41. FOLJAMBE. 
 
 F. J. Savile Foljamhe, Esq. — This collection con- 
 tains — 
 
 (1) " Book of Musters, 1588," including information 
 from 1557. 
 
 (2) A collection of letters from James, Duke of York, 
 to William, Prince of Orange, in 1678 and 1679. 
 
 (3) A number of miscellaneous letters and papers 
 between 1636 and 1789, the main portion being the 
 correspondence of Sir George Savile, of Eufford, for 
 many of the earlier years of George III.'s reign the 
 popular representative of Yorkshire and an esteemed 
 member of the Whig party. 
 
 No. 42. Carlisle. 
 
 Earl of Carlisle. — This collection consists of — 
 ^ Some seventeenth-century correspondence. 
 
 Abundant materials for the history of the eighteenth 
 century. 
 
 Descriptions of Parliamentary debates and proceed- 
 ings in both Houses during the reign of George II. 
 
 Correspondence of Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of 
 Carlisle, with diary on his way to America and during 
 his residence there in negotiation with the Americans, 
 also as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. 
 
 An extensive collection of letters from George Selwyn 
 to the same Earl and his Countess, between 1767 and 
 1790, with others from Selwyn 's intimate friends, 
 Anthony Storer and James Hare. 
 
38 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 No. 45. BUCCLEUCH. 
 
 Duke of Buccleuch and Queensherry : M8S. at 
 Montagu House, Volumes I. and II. — These volumes 
 deal with the following collections : 
 
 (i.) The Winwood Papers, 1599-1617 — the earlier 
 portion relating partly to Sir Ealph "Winwood 's private 
 affairs, but chiefly to his negotiations as Agent and 
 Ambassador in France and in Holland ; the latter, con- 
 sisting of his correspondence while Secretary of State, 
 are to be regarded as State Papers pure and simple. 
 Much of the correspondence had been already avail- 
 able in Sawyer's " Memorials," which, however, close 
 before Winwood 's appointment to the Secretaryship, so 
 that all the papers subsequent to that date and many 
 of the earlier period were here printed for the first time. 
 
 (ii.) The Montagu Papers — ^nine volumes of originals 
 extending from 1483 to 1758, comprising the corre- 
 spondence of the Montagu family of Broughton in the 
 County of Northampton. There is little matter, how- 
 ever, before 1524. This section includes a long series 
 of letters from William Montagu, son of Lord Montagu, 
 from 1639 to 1682, mostly dated from the Temple, con- 
 taining instructive comments on the stirring events of 
 the period, and throwing much light on the inner life of 
 a great family in those stirring times. He was 
 Serjeant-at-Law and Chief Baron of the Exchequer 
 from 1676 to 1686. 
 
 (iii.) The Montagu- Arlington Letters, an important 
 contribution to the history of the negotiations between 
 England and France during the decade 1668-1678. 
 
 (iv.) The Holies MS8. These include numerous 
 commissions to this family in the seventeenth century. 
 
HISTOKICAL MSS. COMMISSION 39 
 
 Those of 1642 and 1644, if ever enrolled in the Patent 
 Kolls of this year, are not now to be found, because 
 those belonging to the period were all burnt before 
 the surrender at Oxford, enhancing the value of these 
 careful copies, while commissions and grants from 
 Charles II. during the period of his exile were, of course, 
 never enrolled. 
 
 Volume II. embraces the Shrewsbury Papers. 
 Several of the more important series in this collection 
 were edited by Archdeacon Coxe in 1821, and portions 
 of one series, the Vernon Letters, by G. P. K. James 
 in 1841 ; but these editors left entirely untouched many 
 other interesting letters and papers. The corres- 
 pondence of Charles Talbot, Earl and Duke of Shrews- 
 bury, begins in 1673 when he was a boy of thirteen 
 years of age, and continues up to and throughout his 
 manhood, during the two periods when he was 
 Secretary of State, and subsequently to 1706. 
 
 No. 49. Sackville. 
 
 Mrs. Stopford-Sachville. — Part III. of the Appendix 
 to the Ninth Keport of the Commissioners is a Eeport 
 upon manuscripts belonging to Mrs. Stopford- Sackville, 
 chiefly composed of letters, reports, and other official 
 documents from and to Lord George Sackville, the 
 third son of Lionel, first Duke of Dorset. This Keport, 
 before ten years had elapsed, was " out of print." 
 There has been a reissue of it, however, revised and 
 enlarged, with new material, in two volumes, uniform 
 with the 8vo. Keports. Appendix II. to the Ninth 
 Eeport, where it is found, may therefore be regarded 
 as negligible. 
 
 The first volume of the reissue contains those sections 
 
40 THE EEPOKTS OF THE 
 
 of the papers which relate to the British Isles, the 
 Continent of Europe, and India. They include papers 
 relating to the Monmouth Insurrection, 1686-1686; 
 letters of Mary, Princess of Orange, to Lady Mary 
 Forester; family papers and letters, 1706-1799; home 
 affairs, 1755-1784; letters from Lord George Sackville 
 to General Irwin, 1761-1784; three important series for 
 Ireland between 1731 and 1783; the War of the 
 Austrian Succession, 1743-1748; Cherbourg and St. 
 Malo, 1758; the Seven Years' War, letters of 1758 and 
 1759; Minden Papers, 1759-1760; letters from Eichard 
 Cumberland on Spanish affairs, 1778-1780; letters 
 relating to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 
 1777-1779; India, 1776-1784; Minorca, 1776-1782; and 
 miscellaneous, 1683-1781. 
 
 Volume 11. is devoted to Colonial affairs, and con- 
 tains papers relating to the American War, 1775-1782; 
 report by Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton on 
 his proceedings from November, 1776, to June, 1781 ; 
 letters to and from Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin 
 Thompson, afterwards Count Eumford, 1781-1785; 
 papers relating to Canada and Nova Scotia, 1758-1780; 
 and to the West Indies, 1777-1780. 
 
 No. 50. Heathcote. 
 
 J. M. Heathcote, Esq. — This consists almost entirely 
 of the correspondence of Sir Eichard Fanshaw, Bart., 
 Ambassador from Charles II. to the Courts of Portugal 
 and Spain, mostly belonging to the years of his 
 embassies, 1661-1666, and throws much light upon the 
 relations of England with the Peninsula, and especially 
 upon the history of the little English army there, sent 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 41 
 
 out under the Earl of Inchiquin, and afterwards com- 
 manded by Count Schonberg, as he spells his name. 
 They are rendered additionally valuable by the fact 
 that they form a complementary series to the Spanish, 
 Portuguese, and Tangier correspondence at the Public 
 Eecord Office and to Volume 7,010 of the Harley MSS. 
 at the British Museum. 
 
 No. 51. POPHAM. 
 
 F. W. Leyborne-Popham, Esq. — The collection of 
 manuscripts at Littlecote is in two distinct series, viz. : 
 
 (i.) Naval — Correspondence of Colonel Edward 
 Popham, one of the three " Generals at Sea " for the 
 Commonwealth . 
 
 (ii.) Clarke Papers — part of the great collection of Sir 
 William Clarke and his son Dr. George Clarke, the bulk 
 of which was bequeathed to Worcester College Library, 
 Oxford, by the latter on his death in 1736. It consists 
 of correspondence, 1648-1659, and two bulky docu- 
 ments — (1) a narrative of the Restoration, and (2) the 
 autobiography of Dr. Clarke, containing an account of 
 what happened after the landing of the Prince of 
 Orange, also details of the Battle of the Boyne and 
 the siege and surrender of Limerick. Clarke became 
 secretary to Prince George of Denmark on Queen Anne's 
 accession. 
 
 No. 52. ASTLEY. 
 
 Mrs. Franhland Russell-Astley, of Chequers Court, 
 Bucks. — This Report might almost be termed a new 
 series of " Memorials of the House of Cromwell." The 
 contents fall into the following divisions : 
 
 1. Notebook of John, afterwards Sir John Croke, 
 
42 THE EEPOBTS OF THE 
 
 M.P., Eecorder of London, Speaker of the House of 
 Commons, and finally Justice of the Common Pleas. 
 
 2. Papers of the closely allied families of Eussell, 
 Belasyse, and Prankland, 1657-1718. The interest of 
 the early letters centres in the figure of Frances 
 Cromwell, the Protector's youngest daughter, who 
 married, first, Kobert Eich; secondly, John (afterwards 
 Sir John) Eussell; and thirdly, in 1683, Thomas, eldest 
 son of Sir William Frankland, of Thirkleby, co. York. 
 
 A letter of John Frankland, afterwards Dean of 
 Gloucester, gives a description of the French Protestant 
 refugees in Holland. There is also a long account of 
 Italy and its religious houses, and under date 1718 are 
 two letters from Lady Huntingdon. 
 
 3. The Cutts and Eevett Papers, 1687-1708. The 
 more important of Lord Cutts' papers begin in 1701, 
 when he was sent as Brigadier-General with Marl- 
 borough into Flanders. During the following winter he 
 acted as Commander-in-Chief. In June, 1703, begins 
 a series of interesting news-letters from The Hague, by 
 Guillaume de Lamberty, the compiler of the fourteen 
 volumes of Memoir es pour servir a Vhistoire du 
 XV I lime siecle, and author of Memoir es de la dernihe 
 revolution d'Angleterre. Colonel Edmund Eevett was 
 ordered to Portugal in 1704. There is an account of the 
 siege of Gibraltar. Among miscellaneous papers are two 
 letters of Eichard Steele. 
 
 4. Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Eussell, 
 relative to the campaigns of 1742-1748, those of 1745 — 
 the year of Fontenoy — being, however, unfortunately 
 missing. 
 
HiSTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 43 
 
 No. 63. Montagu. 
 
 Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. — The manuscripts in 
 this collection originally formed part of the Buccleuch 
 MSS. in Montagu House, and this Keport may 
 therefore be considered as an appendix to that on 
 the Buccleuch Collection. They form, however, a 
 small but complete collection in themselves — selec- 
 tions for (1) ' ' Papers and Letters on Public Events * ' ; 
 (2) ' ' Letters and Autographs ' ' ; and (3) ' ' Papers 
 on Scotch Affairs." There is also a volume, not 
 uniform with the rest, of " Orders, Passes, and Com- 
 missions," mostly of the reign of Charles II. and 
 James II., which also contains many miscellaneous 
 documents, including a series of letters to the Earl of 
 Leicester in Elizabeth's reign. Such of the papers as 
 are copies of speeches and other documents already in 
 print or preserved among the State Papers have not 
 been noticed in the Eeport. They include, however, 
 a copy of the instructions to the Puritan clergy deputed 
 to represent their party at the Hampton Court Con- 
 ference, to which is added a list of those present, 
 followed by a synopsis of the arguments; a list, made 
 in 1607 or 1608, of the King's ofi&cers and fees in the 
 great Courts, the royal household, the castles and forts, 
 and His Majesty's houses, parks, and forests through- 
 out the realm, together with a list of the nobility; a 
 table of musters, the names of fugitives beyond the 
 seas, and the number of churches in the shires of 
 England and Wales. This document follows the lines 
 of the great list of Queen Elizabeth's reign, but differs 
 from it and supplements it in various respects. 
 
 The main part of the collection consists of the corre- 
 
44 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 spondence of the Montagu family during the latter half 
 of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth 
 centuries. 
 
 In the Long Parliament three members of the house 
 of Montagu had seats. All sent news to Lord Montagu, 
 but his chief informants were his lawyer son William, 
 afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and one John 
 Dillingham, who combined the parts of family friend 
 and family tailor. Most of William Montagu's letters 
 are amongst the Buccleuch Papers, but Dillingham's 
 lively accounts are here. 
 
 A number of foreign news-letters are included, and 
 notably a long epistle from a gentleman attending Sir 
 Henry Wotton in his embassy to the Emperor in 1620. 
 The other news-letters were mostly written in 1638 and 
 1639, but two belong to 1643. 
 
 The post-Eestoration papers are almost entirely 
 military, and were probably part of the Albemarle 
 Collection. They contain many royal notes and orders 
 signed by Charles II. and James II., and give infor- 
 mation concerning the newly formed army. 
 
 No. 55. Various Collections, Volume II. 
 
 1. Sir George Womhwell, Newhurgh Priory, York- 
 shire. — This collection contains — 
 
 Papers of the family of Belasyse, Viscounts 
 Fauconberg, with many of the allied family of Fairfax, 
 and others. (See also p. 42.) A considerable number 
 of early charters. Household Account books, 1571-1582. 
 Letters and papers of Lord Fauconberg, husband of 
 Mary Cromwell. Letters from Lawrence Sterne, author 
 of Tristram Shandy. Account of England in the time 
 of Cromwell's Protectorate, written by Henry Bellasis. 
 
 2. Miss Buxton, of Shadwell Court. — Letters con- 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 45 
 
 cerning Philip, Earl of Arundel, 1583-1585. Corre- 
 spondence, 1640-1660. Correspondence and diary in 
 France of John Buxton, 1680-1682. 
 
 3. Lord Edmund Talbot. — Early charters. Papers 
 of Sir Gilbert Talbot, K.G., Deputy for the Govern- 
 ment of Calais in the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry 
 VIII. Household books, 1544-1577. Papers of the 
 French Secretary to the Council of Calais, Jean de 
 Houpplines, at the close of the fifteenth and beginning 
 of the sixteenth centuries. 
 
 4. Duhe of Norfolk. — Kevenue Account Eolls of the 
 College at Arundel, 1383-1541. Settlement in Mary- 
 land, 1633-1637. Early deeds — Westmoreland and 
 Norfolk, etc. 
 
 5. Mrs. Harford. — Correspondence of the chief 
 advisers of the young Charles II. during his exile with 
 Sir Marmaduke, afterwards Lord Langdale. 
 
 6. Mrs. Wentworth, of Woolley. — Family papers, 
 1599-1789. 
 
 No. 55. Various Collections, Volume III. . 
 
 1. T. B. Clarke -Thornhill, Esq. — Correspondence 
 and other papers of Sir Thomas Tresham, owner of 
 Eushton in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1576-1605, 
 discovered in 1828, when, in pulling down a very thick 
 partition wall in the passage leading from the great 
 hall, a large recess or closet in it was discovered, in 
 which was deposited an enormous bundle containing 
 the manuscripts and some theological books wrapped 
 in a large sheet. Since the papers suddenly stop in 
 November, 1605, it is supposed that they were walled 
 up in the alarm following the Gunpowder Plot, and 
 the arrest of Francis Tresham, eldest son of Sir Thomas. 
 
46 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 The manuscripts contain a great deal of information 
 concerning the families intimately connected with the 
 conspiracy, and throw much light upon the views of 
 the loyal Eoman Catholic party in the reign of 
 Elizabeth and at the accession of James I. 
 
 2. Additional Papers of Sir T. Lennard-Barrett. — 
 Documents relating to the great Loftus cause, begun 
 shortly after Sir Thomas Wentworth's appointment as 
 Lord-Deputy of Ireland, and lasting thereafter for 
 nearly half a century. 
 
 3. Pelham R. Papillon, Esq. — Holograph letters 
 written to Sir Henry and Sir Walter Vane and Edmund 
 Dunch, of Wittenham, by Charles I., the Queen of 
 Bohemia, Oliver Cromwell, and William of Orange, 
 afterwards William IH. of England. 
 
 4. W. Cleverley Alexander, Esq. — Description of the 
 ceremonies and festivities attending the creation of 
 Prince Henry, eldest son of James I., as Prince of 
 Wales. 
 
 No 55. Various Collections, Volume IV. 
 
 iv. Major Money -Kyrle. — Collection comprises — 
 Early documents relating to parishes in Wiltshire. 
 A few papers from Sir John Ernie, Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, 1679-1688, including several letters of 
 Lord Lauderdale. A small parcel of familiar letters 
 written by F. Grahme to John Kyrle Ernie, 1717-1724, 
 chiefly from Liege and Bois-le-duc, ending with London 
 and Kendal. A small parcel of letters from one William 
 Eoseingrave, Second Secretary to the Lords Justices 
 of Ireland, 1761-1766, with one of 1772. 
 
 V. F. H. T. Jervoise, Esq. — Early charters concern- 
 ing the priories of Wintney, Newstead, Mottesfont, 
 Chicksand, and Selbome. 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 47 
 
 A series of documents relative to the right to 
 examine and admit chaplains to the chapelry of Combe, 
 1365-1395. 
 
 Court Eolls of the Manor of Herriard, temp. Edward 
 U. ond III. 
 
 Papal Bulls, 1231-1267. 
 
 Miscellaneous papers, 1522-1650. 
 
 vi. Manuscripts preserved at Glemham Hall, Suffolk. 
 — Deeds relating to property in the Manor of St. 
 Briavel, in the Forest of Dean. 
 
 Warrants for decapitation of Lord William Eussell. 
 
 Bristol rent-roll of the Carthusian monastery at 
 Wytham, Somerset; etc. 
 
 X. Charters, Early Conveyances, Court Rolls, etc., of 
 the Earl of Leicester. — Holkham Parish deeds, Henry 
 III. to 1688; Harpley, Flitcham (fourteen of the time 
 of King John), Sparham, Tittleshall, etc. 
 
 Information with regard to the Jewish bankers or 
 money-lenders in East Anglia. 
 
 More than a hundred maps of parishes and manors, 
 the earliest of date 1581. 
 
 xi. Sir William Clayton, Bart. — Deeds relating to 
 places in Leicestershire, Surrey, Devon, Berks, Bucks, 
 City of London, etc. 
 
 No. 55. Various Collections, Volume VI. 
 
 1. Miss M. 'Eyre-Matcham. — This collection consists 
 of a part of the correspondence, etc., of George Bubb 
 Dodington, and includes interesting letters from Henry 
 Fox, Lord Bute, Horace Mann, Lord Talbot, the Irish 
 Chief Baron Wainwright, Lord Chancellor Bowes, 
 James Thomson the poet, and others. The corre- 
 
48 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 spondence begins before Bubb had taken the name of 
 Dodington, while he was Minister at Madrid. In 1732 
 and 1733 there are several letters from Frederick, Prince 
 of Wales, whose party Dodington joined, though there 
 was a rupture in their relations for some years. This 
 chapter in Dodington 's history is brought to a close 
 shortly before the death of the Prince in 1751. In 
 November, 1756, he lost his place as Treasurer of the 
 Navy. After George III.'s accession there is much 
 correspondence between Lord Bute and Dodington. 
 
 The second section of this collection consists of letters 
 on Irish affairs (1725-1762). 
 
 2. Captain H. V. Knox. — This collection consists for 
 the most part of the ofl&cial papers and correspondence 
 of William Knox, born in Ireland in 1732, best known 
 as Under-Secretary for the Colonial Department from 
 1770 to 1782, when the office was abolished. When 
 twenty-four years of age he was appointed Provost- 
 Marshal of Georgia, going out with the new Governor, 
 Henry Ellis, in December, 1756. His narrative of his 
 journey to, and proceedings in, Georgia is among the 
 papers. In February, 1762, the Legislature of Georgia 
 appointed him their agent in England, and he received 
 the King's permission to return. From 1770 to 1782 there 
 is official correspondence, etc., connected with Colonial 
 affairs. In 1784, after the erection of the province of 
 New Brunswick, Knox was appointed Agent, and in 
 1801 he was also appointed Agent for Prince Edward 
 Island. Among his foremost friends and correspondents 
 were William Henry Lyttelton, Governor successively 
 of South Carolina and Jamaica (afterwards created 
 Lord West cote and Lord Lyttelton), and Henry Ellis, 
 ex-Governor of Georgia, who after leaving America led 
 
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 a wandering life, and from 1774 spent most of his time 
 at Spa. 
 
 The second section of these papers relates to Ireland, 
 the earliest writers being Sir Lucius O'Brien and Sir 
 John Blaquiere, who in 1776-78 discussed matters of 
 trade, etc. 
 
 following the Irish papers are Reminiscences, 
 Political Anecdotes, etc. A quarto copybook contains 
 a number of personal sketches entitled " Curious 
 Political Anecdotes." 
 
 Some miscellaneous papers, chiefly in relation to 
 American affairs, are followed by letters, etc., on the 
 subject of presents to the North American Indians. 
 
 3. Cornwallis Wykeham- Martin, Esq. — This is a 
 selection of letters addressed to Admiral the Hon. Sir 
 William CornwaUis, G.C.B., and the correspondence 
 opens in April, 1761, when he was Lieutenant of The 
 Thunderer under Capt. Proby, and continues till the 
 first years of the nineteenth century. The Admiral, a 
 favourite with the British sailors, was known among 
 them as " Blue Billy " and '* Billy-go-Light. " 
 
 No. 55. Various Collections, Volume VII. 
 
 Sir Hervey Bruce. — 1. Private deeds, etc. 
 
 2. Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1568-1650, 
 including some correspondence of Sir Gervase Clifton. 
 
 3. Correspondence of Sir Gervase Clifton, 1600-1642, 
 and a few later papers. 
 
 X. The Earl of Essex. — 1. Manorial documents and 
 early deeds and papers chiefly relating to the various 
 estates of the Capells in Hertfordshire, Essex, 
 Norfolk, etc. 
 
 2. Miscellaneous documents, arranged chronologic- 
 
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60 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 ally, including an inventory of armour, etc., in the 
 Castle of Pleshey, June, 1322; the Valor of Peter- 
 borough Monastery, 31 Henry VIII. ; news-letter of Sir 
 Eichard Morrison, Ambassador to the Emperor Charles 
 V. of Germany; papers relating to sequestration of 
 Lord Capell's estates; and a list of Danish nobility, 
 with territorial qualifications and employments, circa 
 1669. 
 
 H. C. 8taunt07i, Esq. — 1, Deeds, etc., relating to the 
 Manor of Staunton, etc. 
 
 2. Civil War papers for Nottinghamshire. 
 
 3. Court EoUs of Manors of Husthwaite with Carlton, 
 CO. York; Staunton, Staunton Haverholme, and 
 Kilvington, co. Nottingham; survey of meadows of 
 Alverton in 1575. 
 
 xiii. F. Merttens, Esq. — Documents relating to the 
 Manor and soke of Eothley in the County of Leicester. 
 
 No. 56. Stuart. 
 
 The Stuart M88. at Windsor Castle. — These consist 
 of two sections acquired by King George IV. before his 
 accession. The first was procured from the Abb6 James 
 Waters, the Procureur-Gen^ral of the English Bene- 
 dictines at Eome, through Sir John Coxe Hippisley. 
 Charles Edward had bequeathed most of his property 
 and all his papers to his daughter by Miss Walkingshaw, 
 whom he had legitimated and created Duchess of 
 Albany. She directed the Abb^, as her executor, to 
 deliver all the papers of the House of Stuart to her 
 uncle, the Cardinal-Duke. Waters disregarded her 
 wishes, retained the papers, and finally sold them to 
 Hippisley. 
 
 The second section, consisting of the Cardinal-Duke's 
 
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 own papers and remainder of the Stuart Papers, was 
 discovered in a garret at the Palazzo Montserrato at 
 Rome. After some adventures, these papers were pre- 
 sented to the Prince Regent, through the intervention 
 of Cardinal Gonsalvi, the Papal Secretary of State, the 
 discoverer being rewarded by the British Government. 
 
 The collection in its entirety is a very large one, 
 consisting probably of over one hundred thousand 
 letters and papers. They commence in 1579, but the 
 bulk of the collection dates from 1685. 
 
 The published Calendar has been carried out in great 
 detail, and in Volume V., the last volume published, 
 it has been brought down to February, 1718. 
 
 See also Pepys MSS. in Magdalene College, 
 Cambridge, p. 62 infra. 
 
 No. 58. Bath. 
 
 Marquess of Bath: MSS. at Longleat. — Volume I. 
 consists of a fragment of the Portland Collection, trans- 
 ferred to Longleat, in consequence of intermarriage. 
 The more important papers are described in the Third 
 Report Appendix, pp. 193-194. It also contains: — 
 Papers of Queen Anne's reign of capital importance for 
 the inner political history of the time. 
 
 Correspondence relating to the expedition to Valencia, 
 under the command of Lord Rivers. 
 
 Correspondence between Lord Oxford and the Duke 
 of Marlborough, 1711. 
 
 Letters from the Duke of Shrewsbury, including those 
 from Dublin, October, 1713, to March, 1714. 
 
 Letters of Arbuthnot on the publication of 
 Gulliver, etc. 
 
 Volume 11. — This deals with papers now ranking as 
 
52 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 Volumes I. and II. of the Harley Papers at Longleat 
 under the title of " Select Autograph Letters, etc., 
 1516, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century." In 
 the- catalogue of the Longleat MSS. in the Fourth 
 Beport of the Commissioners they are those placed 
 under the heading "Letters found in the Library," 
 etc. They include miscellaneous letters, etc., con- 
 nected with the chief personages of the realm from 
 the reign of Henry VIII., and also a series of the corre- 
 spondence and other papers of Colonel Gervase Holies, 
 and also, running parallel with it, another series of 
 holograph letters from Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards 
 Earl of Clarendon, to his wife, written immediately 
 before and during his embassy to Spain in 1649-1651. 
 The Holies Papers consist chiefly of letters written to 
 Colonel Gervase Holies during the exile. One of his 
 correspondents was Sir George Eadcliffe, who wrote 
 from Paris, giving news from the French Court, and 
 narrating the doings, hopes and fears of the exiled 
 Cavaliers. The most noteworthy contribution to 
 Kestoration Literature is a series of letters from Henry 
 Saville to his friend and boon companion, John Wilmot, 
 Earl of Eochester, written in a very lively style and 
 containing much entertaining matter. 
 
 Volume III. (1685-1721).— This contains the papers 
 of Matthew Prior, not as man of letters, but as public 
 servant and diplomatist, successively as Secretary to 
 the Embassy and Minister ad interim at The Hague, 
 1693-1697; Secretary to the Embassy at the Congress 
 of Eyswick, 1697; and, finally, Secretary to the 
 Embassy and Minister ad interim at Paris, 1698-99. 
 It contains also a " Journal of the Proceedings at 
 Eyswich, 1697," drawn up under his personal super- 
 
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 vision, which, with the subjoined memoirs and the 
 relevant correspondence, furnishes material for a clear 
 and consecutive narrative of the entire negotiation from 
 the first overtures of the French to the ratification of 
 the treaty. 
 
 No. 59. EoYAL Institution. 
 
 American MSS. in the Royal Institution (four 
 volumes). — These are sometimes spoken of as the 
 Carleton or Dorchester Papers, and are, briefly, the 
 Headquarters Papers of the successive British Com- 
 manders-in-Chief in the American War of Indepen- 
 dence, the larger portion concerning the later period of 
 the war, more than one-half being dated in the years 
 1782 and 1783. 
 
 While the ofiicial correspondence of the Commander- 
 in-Chief for the time being with the Secretary of State 
 is also found in the Public Kecord Office, his instruc- 
 tions to his subordinate officers and their letters to him 
 are not generally found elsewhere than in this collec- 
 tion, and afford many valuable and interesting details 
 of the war. As the Southern Colonies remained longest 
 in the British interest, the correspondence is largest 
 with the commanding officers of the different posts 
 there. 
 
 Several papers relate to the Island of St. John, after- 
 wards Prince Edward Island. The colliery on Cape 
 Breton Island is frequently mentioned in connection 
 with the military stores at Halifax and New York. 
 
 A few papers relate to Bermuda and the Bahamas. 
 
 Amongst the papers are the Orderly Book of Sir 
 William Howe at Boston and Halifax, 1775-1776; an 
 Army List of the British, foreign, and provincial troops 
 
54 THE BEPOETS OF THE 
 
 serving under Clinton, printed at New York in 1779; 
 a set of Coroner's Inquests in that city from April to 
 November, 1783; daily reports of vessels entered and 
 cleared from November, 1782, to November, 1783; 
 lists of American prisoners ; a book of negroes embarked 
 at New York from April to November, 1783; and corre- 
 spondence, accounts, and pay- warrants of the German 
 troops. 
 
 Where it has been ascertained that any particular 
 paper is also in the Public Eecord Office or in the 
 Haldimand Collection in the British Museum, a precise 
 reference to it is given. 
 
 No. 61. Du Cane. 
 
 Lady Du Cane. — Papers preserved in the family of 
 Grimston of Grimston Garth, and afterwards of 
 Kiln wick in the East Eiding of Yorkshire, chiefly those 
 of Vice-Admiral Medley (1703-1756), who entered the 
 Navy in 1703. 
 
 Among them is a bundle of French correspondence 
 of M. de Caylus, a Knight of Malta and a Captain in 
 the French Navy, Governor of Martinique in 1745, 
 found in the Vainqueur, captured in 1746. 
 
 No. 62. Lothian. 
 
 The Marquess of Lothian: MS8. at Blickling Hall. — 
 These consist of — 
 
 1. Ancient deeds and documents. 
 
 2. Hobart Papers, documents beginning with the 
 first connection of the Hobart family with the property. 
 Among them a volume of Lieutenancy Journals, 1675- 
 1689. 
 
 3. Buckinghamshire Papers belonging to the time of 
 
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 John Hobart, second Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723- 
 1793), relating, first, to the period of his embassy to 
 St. Petersburg (1762-1765); second, to the American 
 Colonies; third, to his Viceroyalty of Ireland, 1777-1781. 
 They also include letters from Lord Buckinghamshire 
 to Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk (the Lady Suffolk of 
 Pope), Swift, and Walpole, and Sir Henry Clinton's 
 letters to Lord Buckinghamshire. 
 
 No. 63. Egmont. 
 
 Earl of Egmont. — The Appendix to the Seventh 
 Eeport, p. 232 et seq., contains a list of the volumes, 
 etc., in this extensive collection of manuscripts, which 
 includes a mass of materials collected for the history 
 of the Percival family (used in A Genealogical History 
 of the House of Yvery, published in 1742); the original 
 entry-book of the Court of Castle Chamber in Ireland, 
 1573-1620; a series, in about fifty folio volumes, of 
 original letters and papers from the beginning of the 
 reign of Charles I. to the closing decade of that of 
 George II.; nine volumes of news-letters, 1720-1733; 
 and twelve volumes of an original diary of the first 
 Earl of Egmont. 
 
 Two volumes of a detailed Eeport upon the original 
 papers have since been published, Volume I. carrying 
 the family correspondence down to the Kestoration of 
 Charles II., and Volume II. to the end of the reign of 
 Anne. The diary is in course of publication (held up 
 during the war), and the first volume, for the period 
 1730-1733, containing a full account of proceedings 
 and debates in the House of Commons, will appear in 
 the near future, to be followed by other volumes com- 
 pleting the diary in due course. 
 
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 No. 64. Verulam. 
 
 The Earl of Verulam: MS8. at Gorhamhury. — This 
 collection chiefly consists of correspondence belonging 
 to the latter half of the seventeenth century and to the 
 eighteenth century. 
 
 Also of some early documents connected with an 
 embassy to the King of Erance and the Duchess of 
 Burgundy on which Edward Grimston was sent in 
 1449; and an account of the incidents of the confine- 
 ment of Sir Edward Grimston, ControUor of Calais, 
 at the time of its loss, who was taken prisoner and 
 finally incarcerated in the Bastille at Paris. 
 
 Papers of the Bacon family connected with the St. 
 Albans election, trade with Italy, the Company of 
 Merchants Adventurers, Baronets, the Spanish Match, 
 proceedings against the Five Members, etc. 
 
 Papers of Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the 
 Eolls, concerning the public archives, etc. 
 
 Letters from Lord Clarendon, 1666. 
 
 Other Grimston papers. 
 
 Travels in the Low Countries, North of England, 
 and Wales. 
 
 No. 66. Ancaster. 
 
 Earl of Ancaster. — This collection includes — 
 Correspondence of Peregrine, "the stout" Lord 
 Willoughby of the Low Countries, son of Eichard 
 Bertie and the Duchess of Suffolk, of the reign of 
 Elizabeth down to 1601, and of his son Eobert, first 
 Earl of Lindsey. 
 
 Some eighteenth- century letters from the elder 
 William Pitt, Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George 
 III., George, Prince of Wales, etc. 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 57 
 
 Ancient books and deeds of the Abbeys of Kirkstead, 
 Vaudey, and Newhouse. 
 
 Inventories of various sorts, household effects, church 
 plate, tapestry, etc. 
 
 Mediaeval treatises, a numerale and speculum 
 penitentis of William of Leicester, called de Montibus, 
 Chancellor of Lincoln; a fragment of the obituary of 
 the Premonstratensian Abbey of Newhouse, etc. 
 
 Musters, temp. Henry VIII. 
 
 No. 67. Pol w^ ARTE. 
 
 Lord Polwarth. Volume L (1711-1718).— This volume 
 contains a portion preserved at Mertoun House, in 
 Berwickshire, of the Marchmont MSS., from 
 Marchmont House, noticed in a previous Eeport 
 (Fourteenth Report, Appendix III., pp. 66-173). Some 
 of the papers at Mertoun House were published in 1831 
 by the Et. Hon. Sir George H. Eose, in a work entitled 
 The March^nont Papers. The remainder form the sub- 
 ject of the first volume under consideration, to be 
 continued in future volumes. Volume I., with the 
 exception of a few pages at the beginning, deals only 
 with the diplomatic correspondence of Alexander, Lord 
 Polwarth, as Plenipotentiary at the Court of the King 
 of Denmark between the years 1716 and 1725. It is 
 very extensive, consisting of a large collection of original 
 letters and papers, as well as of thirteen volumes of 
 entry-books of letters emanating from Lord Polwarth. 
 In addition to the main subject of proceedings and 
 events connected with his mission, the letters are full 
 of references to events taking place during their period 
 both at home and in other European countries. 
 
58 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 No. 68. Earl of Denbigh : MSS. at Newnham Paddox. 
 
 This collection comprises — 
 
 Credentials of the first Earl when on his travels in 
 the East; a portion of his accounts as Master of the 
 Eoyal Wardrobe, etc. 
 
 Four volumes of letters, chiefly addressed to Basil, 
 second Earl, when he was Ambassador in Italy, from 
 1634 to 1638, and afterwards during the Civil War ; three 
 other volumes containing despatches to and from Lord 
 Feilding during his embassy in Italy; and an equal 
 number of unbound letters, principally consisting of 
 drafts of Lord Feilding *s despatches from Italy, and of 
 letters from agents who kept him au courant with what 
 was passing at the different Italian Courts. 
 
 A series of letters, many in Dutch, relating to the 
 Eevolution of 1688, with a narrative of the Prince of 
 Orange's voyage to Torbay and his progress thence to 
 St. James's. 
 
 A quarto volume of letters, 1744-1775. 
 
 Letters addressed to the Countess of Denbigh by 
 Lord Bolingbroke, the second Lady Bolingbroke, and 
 others. 
 
 A large folio of transcripts of correspondence from 
 1776 to 1800 between the Earl of Denbigh and states- 
 men of the time. 
 
 Miscellaneous papers. 
 
 The collection is in the first instance the subject of 
 four short notices in the Appendices to the Fourth, 
 Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Eeports of the Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 That to the Fourth Report (p. 254) deals with the 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 59 
 
 two volumes of family letters and two volumes of Civil 
 War letters of the second Earl. 
 
 That to the Sixth Report (p. 277) with despatches to 
 Lord Feilding at Venice, 1635-1638, and to him in 
 England from Venice, 1639-1655. 
 
 The Seventh Report, Appendix, pp. 196-232, gives 
 lengthy extracts from so-called news-letters of 1686 and 
 1691-1693, and from miscellaneous papers between 
 1624 and 1748. 
 
 The Eighth Report, Appendix (Reissue, Part I., 
 Section 111., pp. 552-572) has letters from 1631 to 1693, 
 and news-letters, 1686-1693, with some letters to 
 Isabella, Countess of Denbigh, 1737-1751. 
 
 Denbigh, V. 
 
 Subsequent to the preparation of the foregoing 
 Reports, many more papers were brought to light, and 
 these, with a more detailed Report upon the corre- 
 spondence of Isabella, Countess of Denbigh, wife of 
 William, the fifth Earl, are comprised in a separate 
 volume, known as Denbigh, Volume V. 
 
 The main bulk of the earlier section of this part con- 
 sists of the correspondence of Basil, Lord Feilding 
 (afterwards second Earl of Denbigh), during his 
 embassies to Venice and Turin, 1634-1639. 
 
 Among letters written to Lord Feilding are about a 
 dozen from Dr. William Harvey, the physician, who 
 in 1636 accompanied Lord Arundel on his mission to 
 the Imperial Court. 
 
 There are a few letters connected with the Civil War 
 additional to those in the earlier Reports. 
 
 Certain so-called " news-letters " noticed in the 
 Appendix to the Seventh Report, on further examina- 
 
60 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 tion, turn out to be private and confidential letters with 
 a certain amount of cipher, from Sieur John Blancard, 
 Provost-Marshal-General in Jamaica from October, 
 1690. 
 
 The correspondence of Isabella de Yonge, wife of the 
 fifth Earl, extends from 1735 to 1753. She and Lord 
 Denbigh lived for a considerable time in Erance and 
 moved in diplomatic and literary circles. 
 
 The long series of letters from Marie, Marquise de 
 Villette, second wife of Lord Bolingbroke, begins in the 
 autumn of 1735 and continues till her death in 1750. 
 
 A series of letters from " Billy " Bristow, half- 
 brother of the Duchess of Buckingham, gives an inter- 
 esting picture of Italy in 1736. 
 
 Other contents are letters of Hester Grenville, 
 afterwards Lady Chatham; Lady Townshend; Lady 
 Denbigh's correspondents in France; Basil, sixth Earl 
 of Denbigh; and Lord Temple. 
 
 No. 69. MiDDLETON. 
 
 Lord Middleton. — The principal part of the collec- 
 tion consists of an enormous number of mediaeval and 
 later deeds, charters. Court Eolls, manorial accounts, 
 etc., relating to thirty counties. 
 
 The founder of the family was Kalph Bugge, a 
 Nottingham merchant of the reign of John, whose 
 descendants took up the territorial names of Bingham 
 and Willoughby from their Nottinghamshire posses- 
 sions. Marriages with the De Greys, Frevilles of Tam- 
 worth, De Morteins, and others, brought into the 
 family muniments portions of the records of the great 
 feudal houses of the De Greys of Codnor and elsewhere, 
 De Montfort of Beldesert, Zouch, Marmion, Filiol, 
 
HISTOBICAL MSS. COMMISSION 61 
 
 Leburn, Harley, Malreward, Bracebridge, and others. 
 The head of the family at the end of the fifteenth 
 century, Sir Henry Willoughby, made a Knight 
 Banneret on the field of Stoke in 1487, and filling the 
 post of Knight of the Body to Henry VIII., was in 
 close contact with the Court at an interesting period 
 of English history, and was engaged in many military 
 expeditions. 
 
 An almost unique document to be found in the col- 
 lection is a written agreement in English, circa 1425, 
 by villagers for the regulation of the cultivation of the 
 common fields, to which the consent of the lords of 
 the manors is added in Latin. 
 
 The great traffic in indulgences on the eve of the 
 Eeformation has left its mark on this collection in the 
 number of letters of fraternity with religious houses, 
 some of which confer sweeping indulgences. 
 
 Numerous papers throw considerable light on the 
 early coal-mining industry, and of the sister- industry 
 of the working and forging of ironstone. 
 
 Among contributions to palaeography is an .eighth- 
 century uncial copy of the Latin Vulgate, possibly 
 representing one of the three oldest manuscript books 
 that are known to have been written in England. 
 Another interesting manuscript is represented by the 
 fragments of the Worcester Chartulary, drawn up 
 about the year 1000, the oldest English Chartulary of 
 which we have any trace. 
 
 Of more strictly historical interest is the Kegister of 
 Thomas Field, Abbot of Burton-on-Trent from 1472 to 
 1493. 
 
 Of volumes of exclusively literary interest, the most 
 noteworthy is an early thirteenth- century manuscript 
 
62 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 of French romances and fabliaux, several unpublished, 
 written in the Picard dialect, introducing a new figure, 
 that of Master Heldris de Cornevalle, into the gallery 
 of the poets of the Arthurian cycle. 
 
 The household accounts include one of Henry, Lord 
 Grey of Codnor, in 1304-05; the remainder relate to 
 the sixteenth century. They have yielded a rich crop 
 of obsolete terms. 
 
 There are only a few specimens of private letters. 
 
 No. 70. Pepys. 
 
 Pepys MSS. at Magdalene College, Cambridge (1485- 
 1649). — These originally belonged to John Evelyn, and 
 came into his possession through his wife Mary, 
 daughter and sole heiress of Sir Richard Brown, Clerk 
 of the Council to Charles I., sent as Ambassador to 
 Paris in 1641, where he remained till the Restoration. 
 
 The collection contains papers connected with Lord 
 Robert Dudley, the death of Amy Robsart, the Earl 
 of Leicester, Mary, Queen of Scots ; letters from France 
 of Elizabeth's reign; letters relating to Ireland begin- 
 ning in February, 1563-64; advices from Italy; trade 
 with Flanders and Holland; sanitation of London; etc. 
 
 The Stuart Papers include a schedule of four hundred 
 and one letters taken at Worcester abstracted by a 
 clerk, and a " Breviat " of seventy-nine letters brought 
 from Jersey and reported to the Council of State in 
 April, 1651. 
 
 Papers referring to Virginia, the Carribo Islands, and 
 the First Plantation of New England. 
 
 A letter of Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I., one of 
 two known to exist. 
 
 Keys to ciphers of the reign of Charles I. 
 
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 No. 71. Finch. 
 
 Allen George Finch, Esq., Volume I. (1537-1669).— 
 This is one of the Eeports published after the compila- 
 tion of the Guide, Part I., and therefore not referred 
 to in the topographical index. The collection, as a 
 whole, consists of — 
 
 1. Miscellaneous letters of the sixteenth and early 
 seventeenth centuries. 
 
 2. The correspondence of Heneage, Earl of Win- 
 chilsea, during his embassy to the Porte, 1660-1668. 
 
 3. Letters and papers of Sir John Einch, who fol- 
 lowed his cousin as Ambassador to Turkey. 
 
 4. Letters and papers of Sir Heneage Finch, after- 
 wards Earl of Nottingham, and his family. 
 
 5. The correspondence, etc., of Daniel Finch, second 
 Earl of Nottingham, during his tenure of the office of 
 Secretary of State, 1688-1693. 
 
 6. Eighteenth- century letters and papers. 
 
 Volume I., the only part hitherto pubhshed, com- 
 prises the first and second sections of the above. 
 
 Medieval Deeds, etc. 
 
 Mediaeval deeds and other documents prior to the 
 sixteenth century are noticed in many Eeports, and 
 are abundant in ecclesiastical, municipal, and collegiate 
 collections. Of private collections, the following is a 
 partial list of those which furnish historical and topo- 
 graphical material of the kind : 
 Fifth Report, Appendix: 
 
 Duke of Sutherland, p. 141 et seq. 
 Sir Edmund Lechmere, p. 299 et seq. — Taxa- 
 tion Eoll for the County of Worcester, 
 
64 • THE EEPOKTS OF THE 
 
 temp. Edward I., and deeds of twelfth, 
 thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries relating 
 to the Priory of Worcester. 
 R. Cholmondeley , Esq., p. 335 et seq. — The 
 
 Abbey of Kingswood, co. Wilts. 
 J. R. Pine Coffin, Esq., p. 370. 
 Miss Griffith, p. 413 et seq. 
 Seventh Report, Appendix: 
 Verney Papers, p. 433. 
 G. A. Lowndes, p. 537. 
 Rev. T. W. Webb, p. 681. 
 Eighth Report: 
 
 Part I. : Duke of Marlborough. 
 Part II. : Duke of Manchester. 
 Ninth Report, Appendix, Part II. — H. C. Pole- 
 Gell, Esq. 
 
 Tenth Report, Appendix IV. : 
 
 Captain I. F. Bagot. — Earliest records of West- 
 morland. 
 Cartulary of Abbey of Haughmond, etc. 
 J. Lechmere Parkinson. — Salop, Hereford, and 
 
 Montgomery. 
 E. Lloyd Gatacre. — Shropshire. 
 G. F. Luttrell. — Dunster Castle. 
 Rev. T. 8. Hi7L— Cartulary of Blythburgh. 
 Lord Stafford. 
 
 Rev. C. R. Manning. — Sibton Abbey, co. Suffolk; 
 College and Chantry of St. Mary of Mossing- 
 ham; etc. 
 Eleventh Report, Appendix VII.: 
 
 Marchioness of Waterford. — Cistercian Convent 
 of Stixwold in Lincolnshire, etc. 
 
HISTOBICAL MSS. COMMISSION 65 
 
 Mr. Augustus W. Savile. — Cartulary of Eufford 
 Abbey. 
 
 Bridgewater Trust. — Buildwas Abbey in Shrop- 
 shire, etc. 
 
 Inner Temple. — Hoveden's Chronicle; Higden's 
 Poly chronic on; French Chronicle of Brut; 
 etc. 
 
 Twelfth Report, Appendix IX. : 
 
 Mr. J. H. Gurney. — Twelfth- century manu- 
 script of English Laws; earliest known copy 
 of treaty of 1153 between King Stephen and 
 Duke Henry. 
 
 Thirteenth Report, Appendix IV. : 
 
 E. R. Woodhouse. — Erom temp. Henry III. for 
 
 Norfolk and Suffolk. 
 Earl of Carlisle . — Cartulary of Newminster 
 Abbey. 
 
 ^ Fifteenth Report, Appendix X. : 
 i Earl of Radnor. — " Eegistrum Hungerford- 
 
 l anium," containing copies of deeds from 
 
 I reign of John to that of Edward IV., etc. 
 
 I Sir W. 0. Corbet, Bart. — Early charters of 
 
 f Haughmond Abbey, etc. 
 
 Portland, Volume II. 
 
 Various Collections, Volume II. : 
 V Sir George Womhwell. 
 
 f Lord Edmund Talbot. 
 
 Duhe of Norfolk. 
 
 Rutland, Volume IV. — Twelfth century and later, 
 relating to Benedictine Priory at Belvoir, Derbyshire, 
 estates and miscellaneous. 
 
 6 
 
66 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 Lothian. — ^Including those relating to the rehgious 
 houses of Langley and Horsham St. Faith. 
 
 Ancaster. — Books and deeds of the Abbeys of Kirk- 
 stead, Vaudey, and Newhouse. 
 
 Various Collections, Volume IV. : 
 
 iv. Major Money -Kyle. — Eelating to parishes in 
 Wiltshire. 
 
 V. F. H. T. Jervoise, Esq. 
 vi. Manuscripts at Glemham Hall, Suffolk. 
 
 X. Earl of Leicester. 
 xi. Sir William Clayton. 
 
 Middleton. — Fragments of the Worcester Chartulary, 
 A.D. 1000, and of an early eighth- century uncial copy 
 of the Latin Vulgate, etc. 
 
 Various Collections, Volume VII. : 
 
 viii. The Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 ix. Sir Hervey Bruce. 
 
 X. The Earl of Essex. 
 
 xi. Colonel Frewen. 
 
 xii. H. C. Staunton, Esq. 
 
 xiii. F. Merttens, Esq. 
 
 The Civil War. 
 
 Papers bearing upon the history of the Civil War are 
 to be found in the following Eeports, among others : 
 Rutland, Volumes I. and 11. 
 Portland, Volume I. 
 
 Volume III. : Correspondence of Brilliana, Lady 
 Harley, including those during defence of 
 Brampton Castle against the King's forces 
 in 1643. 
 
HISTOKICAL MSS. COMMISSION 67 
 
 Buccleuch, Volume I. (section of the Montagu 
 papers). 
 Popham. 
 Tenth Report, Appendix IV. : 
 
 1. Earl of Westmorland. 
 
 2. Captain Stewart's MSS. at Alltyrodin. 
 
 Tenth Report, Appendix VI. : 
 
 Lord Bray's MSS. — Secret correspondence 
 between Queen Henrietta Maria and Charles 
 I. ; Battle of Worcester ; etc. 
 
 P. Pleydell Bouverie, Esq. 
 
 Cowper MSS. 
 
 Eleventh Report, Appendix VII. : 
 
 Mr. Francis Darwin, of Creskeld. 
 Mr. H. Styleman Le Strange. 
 
 Thirteenth Report, Appendix IV. — Captain Loder 
 Symonds. 
 
 Fourteenth Report, Appendix IX. — James Round. 
 Fifteenth Report, Appendix VII. : 
 
 Duke of Somerset. 
 
 Sir F. G. Puleston, Bart. 
 
 Fifteenth Report, Appendix X. — Earl of Radnor. 
 
 Hodghin. 
 
 Bath. — Defence of Brampton Castle by Lady 
 Brilliana Harley, etc. 
 
 Various Collections, Volum,e II. — Miss Buxton, of 
 Shadwell Court. 
 
 Pepys MSS. 
 
 Denbigh V. 
 
 Various Collections, Volume VII. — H. C. Staunton ^ 
 Esq., Nottinghamshire. 
 
68 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 The Navy. 
 
 Contributions to British naval history, some of them 
 of great interest and importance, appear in the follow- 
 ing Beports — namely : 
 
 Third Report, p. 146 : Marquis of Lansdowne. — ^For 
 1753-1780. 
 
 Fourth Report, p. 282 : Earl de La Tfarr.— 1691-1623. 
 
 Fifth Report, p. 136 : Duke of Sutherland. — Corres- 
 pondence of Vice-Admiral Sir Eichard Leveson, 1598- 
 1605. 
 
 Ninth Report, Appendix, Part 11. , p. 397: H. G. 
 Pole-GelL— Charge and state of the Navy, 1664-1666, 
 and 1675. 
 
 Tenth Report of Commissioners, p. 14. — ^Manuscript 
 volume of Mr. J. W. C. Vidler, of Eye (Dec, 1684). 
 
 The Cecil M8S., containing accounts of naval engage- 
 ments, temp. Elizabeth. 
 
 Cowper. — Containing numerous papers illustrating 
 this subject for the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., 
 by Thomas Coke, Vice-Chamberlain, when he was 
 appointed a Commissioner to inquire into the abuses 
 of the state of the Navy in 1619. 
 
 Dartmouth, Volum,e I. — 1688, when Lord Dartmouth 
 was placed in command of the English fleet sent out to 
 intercept the Dutch under the Prince of Orange, an 
 important contribution to the history of the time, his 
 most active correspondent being Samuel Pepys, then 
 Secretary to the Admiralty. 
 
 Dartmouth, Volume III. — Naval battles against the 
 Dutch and French, 1672-73, etc. 
 
 Townshend. — ^Admiral Sir John Norris, Baltic, 1715. 
 
HISTOBIGAL MSS. COMMISSION 69 
 
 Rutland, Volume III. — The correspondence of Lord 
 Eobert Manners, 1779-1782. 
 
 Portland, Volume II. — Captain Penn's journal of a 
 cruise in the Southern Seas, 1650-1652. 
 
 Portland, Volume III. — ^Lord Conway in 1636, and 
 when cruising in the Downs as Captain of the Trium^ph 
 a few years later. 
 
 Portland, Volume VIII. — 1694-1706, with an account 
 of Earl Torrington's court-martial, 1690. 
 
 Foljam^he. — Temp. Elizabeth, 1587, the Spanish 
 Armada. 
 
 Buccleuch, Volume I. (section of Montagu Papers). — 
 Letters of Samuel Speed in 1740 and 1741 from 
 Barbados, Jamaica, Carthagena, and Cuba, giving 
 minute particulars of the operations of the British 
 fleet against the Spaniards in the West Indies. 
 Popham. — Period of the Commonwealth. 
 Tenth Report, Appendix IV. : 
 
 Lord Muncaster. — The "Smooth logs" of 
 
 Admiral John Pennington, 1631-1636. 
 Mr. Vidler, of Rye.—Lht of Navy, 1684, etc. 
 W. Bromley Davenport. — Engagements between 
 English and Dutch, 1666. 
 Eleventh Report, Appendix VII. : Lord Hothfield. — 
 Letters of George, Earl of Cumberland, when com- 
 manding at sea. 
 
 Le Fleming (Twelfth Report, Appendix VII.). — List 
 of the Eoyal Navy in 1545, etc. 
 
 Thirteenth Report, Appendix VI. : The Delaval 
 Family. — Letters to Captain George Delaval, serving 
 in the Navy in the reigns of Anne and George I. 
 
 Fifteenth Report, Appendix VII. : Duke of Somerset. 
 — Expedition under Sir George Eooke. 
 
70 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 Various Collections, Volume VI. : 
 
 1. Miss Eyre Matcham. 
 
 in. Cornwallis-Wykeliam-Martin. — Correspon- 
 dence of Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, 
 1761, et seq. 
 
 Du Cane. — Papers of Vice- Admiral Medley, 1703- 
 1756. 
 
 Polwarth, Volume I. — Operations of Admiral Sir 
 George Byng against the Spanish fleet in 1717. 
 
 Conspiracies and Plots. 
 
 Papers bearing upon this subject are to be found in 
 Eeports as below : 
 
 Babington Conspiracy, 1686 : 
 
 Fifteenth Report, Appendix VII. : Duke of 
 Somerset. 
 
 Gunpowder Plot, 1605 : 
 
 Third Report, Appendix, p. 281 : Phelips MS8. 
 Tenth Report, Appendix IV. : Earl of West- 
 m,orland. 
 
 Various Collections, Volume III.: J. B. Clarke- 
 Mornhill, Esq. 
 
 The Popish Plot : Titus Gates, 1678 : 
 
 Third Report, Appendix, p. 281 : Phelips MSS. 
 Tenth Report, Appendix IV. : Sir N. W. Throch- 
 
 m,orton. 
 Twelfth Report, Appendix IX.: R. W. Ketton, 
 
 Esq. 
 Thirteenth Report, Appendix VI. : Sir W. 
 
 Fitzherhert. 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 71 
 
 Various Collections, Volume II. : Sir George 
 Wombwell. 
 
 Monmouth Eebellion, 1685: 
 
 Fifth Report, Appendix, p. 327: Rev. H. T. 
 
 Ellacomhe. 
 Seventh Report, Appendix, p. 633: G. E. 
 
 Frere, Esq. 
 Sackville, 
 
 Jacobite Papers. 
 
 For these the following Eeports should be 
 consulted : 
 
 Eighth Report, Appendix I., p. 313, b (Second 
 Section): A. G. Stuart, Esq.— 174:5-46. 
 
 Tenth Report, Appendix I. : Manuscripts of C. F. 
 Weston-Underwood, Esq. — Scottish invasion of 1745. 
 
 Tenth Report, Appendix IV. : 
 
 C. F. Weston-Underwood.— EeYolt of 1745-46. 
 
 Capt. J. F. BagoVs Manuscripts. 
 
 George Browne, Esq., of Troutbeck. — 1715 
 
 Eebellion. 
 Lord Muncaster, 1745. — Duke of Perth's Army; 
 
 march through Lancaster and Kendal. 
 
 Tenth Report, Appendix VI.: B. R. T. Balfour, Esq. 
 — James II. 
 
 Townshend.— 1103-1727 , especially 1715 and later. 
 
 Eleventh Report, Appendix VII. : Mr. Augustus W. 
 Savile. — 1715. 
 
 Le Fleming. — 1715 and 1745. 
 
 Thirteenth Report, Appendix VI. : Sir W. Fitzherbert. 
 —1745. 
 
72 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 Fourteenth Report, Appendix IX. : 
 
 Earl of Buckinghamshire. — 1744-1746. 
 J. J. Hare. 
 
 Kenyon (Fourteenth Report, Appendix IV.). — 1715 
 and 1745. 
 
 Hodgkin. 
 
 Various Collections, Volume VIII. : Hon. F. L. 
 Wood. — 1745. An almost continuous narrative of 
 events from the eve of Prestonpans to the morrow of 
 CuUoden. 
 
 Stuart. 
 
 Polwarth, Volume I. — 1715. 
 
 Travels. 
 
 For diaries and journals of travel, see the following 
 Eeports — viz. : 
 
 Sixth Report, Appendix, p. 396. — Journal of an 
 expedition from London to Northumberland and Scot- 
 land, 1727, by John Strachey. 
 
 Eighth Report, Part I. : Earl of Jersey. — Diary of a 
 Tour from England to Germany via Holland, June, 
 1697. 
 
 Portland, Volum^e II. — ^Journey of Thomas Basker- 
 ville in the Eastern and Midland Counties, temp. 
 Charles II. 
 
 Portland, Volume VI. (Volume IV. of " Harley 
 Papers"). — The second Lord Oxford's travels about 
 England and Scotland in company with his Chaplain 
 Thomas and other friends. 
 
 Buccleuch, Volume II. — On November 1, 1700, the 
 Duke of Shrewsbury set out on his travels, and was 
 absent from England for more than five years. In his 
 
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 journal he gives accounts of all the numerous people 
 he met with and of all the places he visited, with many- 
 curious anecdotes, with observations on all sorts of 
 topics. His route, with lengthened stays at intervals, 
 led him first to France, where he " saluted " Louis 
 XIV. at Versailles, then to Switzerland, and then to 
 Italy. He arrived at Eome on November 20, 1701, 
 and here abode for nearly three years and a half. 
 Affairs and events at Eome are recorded at great length. 
 In April, 1705, he went to Venice, and in July of the 
 same year to Augsburg, where Countess Adelaide 
 joined him, and was there married to him. His return 
 to England now took place, by way of Frankfort, the 
 Hague, and the Brill, reaching English soil at Dept- 
 ford in January, 1706. 
 
 Tenth Report, A-ppendix IV. : 
 
 Earl of Westmorland. — 1. William Mildmay in 
 
 Italy, 1720. 
 2. Journals of Maria, wife of John, third Earl of 
 
 Clarendon, travelling with him in France, 
 
 Italy, Switzerland, and Austria, in 1791 and 
 
 in 1802-03. 
 Lord Muncaster. — Jerusalem pilgrims, fifteenth 
 
 century. 
 
 Twelfth Report, Appendix IX. : Mr. R. W. Ketton. — 
 Abroad, 1741 ; Ireland, 1772 ; Norway and Denmark, 
 1773. 
 
 Thirteenth Report, Appendix IV. : E. R. Woodhouse. 
 — Warwickshire, etc., 1745-46; France, 1750. 
 
 Lonsdale. — Lowlands of Scotland to Edinburgh. 
 
 Fifteenth Report, Appendix X. : P. E. Tillard. — 
 India, 1699-1705. 
 
74 THE EEPOETS OF THE 
 
 Various Collections, Volume II. : Miss Buxton, of 
 Shadwell Court. — Correspondence and Diary, France, 
 1680-1682. 
 
 Verulam. — 1. Three weeks' observations of the Low 
 Countries, especially Holland, by Sir Harbottle 
 Grimston. 
 
 2. A Northern tour — in 1768, containing details of 
 great houses and their contents, Chatsworth, etc. 
 
 3. Description of Wales. 
 
 Ancaster. — Lord Willoughby and his companion in 
 France, 1647-1649. 
 
 Denbigh, V. — ^Italy in 1736; P^z^nas in Languedoc, 
 Bordeaux, and Paris, 1761-52. 
 
 Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. 
 
 Eeports on collections preserved within and connected 
 with these divisions of the United Kingdom have been 
 omitted from the preceding survey because the index 
 in the topographical part of the Guide, described on 
 p. 12 supra, identifies and classifies them in a manner 
 sufficiently helpful for historical students, to which, 
 therefore, they may be referred. Among the Eeports 
 on Welsh Manuscripts attention must, however, be 
 called to the " Catalogues of Manuscripts in the Welsh 
 Language," Volume I. (in three parts), and Volume II. 
 (in four parts), which are of a purely literary character, 
 and refer to manuscripts of the kind formerly at Mostyn 
 Hall and Peniarth* ; at Jesus College, Oxford, the Free 
 Library at Cardiff, the British Museum, and elsewhere. 
 These Eeports differ essentially in regard to the matters 
 
 ♦ These manuscripts are now preserved at the National 
 Library at Aberystwyth. 
 
HISTOEICAL MSS. COMMISSION 75 
 
 dealt with from the other Eeports of Inspectors em- 
 ployed by the Commissioners. 
 
 As regards Scotland, the " Laing MSS.," Volume I., 
 and as regards Ireland, " Ormonde," Volume VII., 
 could not be included in the index references in the 
 Guide, having been published subsequently to its com- 
 pilation. Brief surveys of their contents, however, are 
 given on pp. ix and viii of that work respectively. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Abingdon, Abbey* of, records of, 
 
 18. 
 Albany, Duchess of, creation of a, 
 
 50. 
 Albemarle collection of MSS., 44. 
 Albert, Archduke, England and 
 
 Spain, treaty, 1604, 21. 
 Alexander, W. Cleverley, Esq., 
 
 MSS. of, 46. 
 Alfred the Great, King, psalter of, 
 
 23. 
 Alverton, survey, 1575, of meadows 
 
 of, 50. 
 Alveston Manor rolls, 25. 
 America and American Planta- 
 tions, papers relating to, 
 
 15, 29, 37, 49, 55. 
 War of Independence, MSS. 
 
 relating to, 16, 21, 30, 40, 
 
 53. 
 North, Indians in, presents to, 
 
 49. 
 Amsterdam, correspondence from, 
 
 34. 
 Ancaster, Earl of, MSS. of, 56. 
 Anglo-American treaty, 1782, 17. 
 Anglo-Saxon charters, 23. 
 Anne, Princess and Queen, letters 
 
 from, 9, 20. 
 important political papers of 
 
 reign of, 51. 
 Anstis, Mr., Garter King of Arms, 
 
 papers of, 23. 
 Arbuthnot, John, letters from, 51. 
 Army post-Restoration letters, 44. 
 
 Army list of British troops serving 
 under General Clinton, 53 
 
 Arundel : 
 
 College at. Revenue rolls of, 
 
 45. 
 Philip, Earl of, letters con- 
 cerning, 45. 
 Earl of, mission to the Im- 
 perial Court, 59. 
 
 Ashbumham, Earl of, MSS. of, 23. 
 
 Astle, Thomas, Keeper of the 
 Records, MSS. of, 23. 
 
 Atterbury, Francis, Bishop, corres- 
 pondence, 34. 
 
 Augmentation office documents, 
 22. 
 
 Austrian Succession, War of the, 
 papers, 40. 
 
 " Autograph letters, 1516 to the 
 middle of the eighteenth 
 century" (Bath MSS.), 52. 
 
 B 
 
 Babington Conspiracy, 70. 
 Bacon : 
 
 family papers, 56. 
 
 Sir Nathaniel, papers of, 28, 
 29. 
 Bahamas, the, papers relating to, 
 
 53. 
 Bankes : 
 
 Sir J., Chief Justice, papers, 2 1 . 
 
 Ralph, Esq., MSS. of, 21. 
 Barbados, letters from, 69. 
 Baronets, papers relating to, 56. 
 Barrels, Mens., 23. 
 
 76 
 
INDEX 
 
 77 
 
 Bath, Marquess of, MSS. of, 51. 
 Ste also Portland MSS. 
 
 Beda's Ecclesiastical History, 16. 
 
 Belasyse family papers, 42. 
 
 Bellasis, Henry, account of Eng- 
 land by, 44. 
 
 Bel voir Priory, deeds at, 65. 
 
 Bermudas, Colonisation of, 22. 
 papers relating to, 53. 
 
 Bertie, Richard, 56. 
 
 Bingham, name of, whence de- 
 rived, 60. 
 
 Blackfriars, London, estate papers, 
 19. 
 theatre, 19. 
 
 Blancard, Sieur John, Provost 
 Marshal-General in Jamaica, 
 letters from, 60. 
 
 Blaquiere, Sir John, letters from, 
 49. 
 
 Blickling HaU, MSS. at, 54. 
 
 Blythburgh, cartulary of, 64. . 
 
 Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of, 
 holograph letters from, 46. 
 
 Bois-le-Duc, letters from, 46. 
 
 Bolingbroke, Lord, letters from, 58. 
 second Lady, letters from, 58, 
 60. 
 
 Bonaparte, Napoleon, First Con- 
 sul, letters from, 24. 
 
 Bowes, Lord Chancellor, letters 
 from, 47. 
 
 Boyne, Battle of the, 41. 
 
 Bracebridge family, 61. 
 
 Bradshaw, Richard, Resident at 
 Hamburg, 1650-9, corres- 
 pondence of, 17. 
 
 Braybrooke, Lord, MSS. of, 11, 21. 
 
 Braye, Lord, MSS. of, 28. 
 
 Bridlington Priory, register of, 16. 
 
 Bristol rent roll, 47. 
 
 Bristow, " Billy," half-brother of 
 the Duchess of Bucking- 
 ham, letters from, 60. 
 
 British Museum, MSS. at, 23. 
 
 Brown, Sir Richard, Clerk of the 
 CouncU to Charles I., Mary, 
 daughter of, 62. 
 
 Browne, John, Clerk of the Long 
 Parliament, 28. 
 
 Bruce, Sir Hervey, MSS. of, 49. 
 
 Brut, French chronicle of, 65. 
 
 Buccleuch and Queensberry, Duke 
 of, MSS. of, 38. 
 
 Buckingham, George, Marquis of, 
 MSS. collected by, 23. 
 
 Buckiughamshire, Earl of, MSS. 
 of, 36. 
 John Hobart, second Earl of, 
 papers and correspondence, 
 54, 55. 
 
 Bugge, Ralph, of Nottingham, 
 founder of the Middleton 
 family, 60. 
 
 Build was Abbey, /Co. Salop, 65. 
 
 Burbadge, Richard, 19. 
 
 Burghley, Lord, as Lord -Lieuten- 
 ant of Lincolnshire, letters 
 to, 31. 
 . See Cecil MSS. 
 
 Burton-on-Trent, Abbey of, regis- 
 ter of abbots, 61. 
 
 Bute, Lord, correspondence, 47, 48. 
 
 Buxton, John, in France, corres- 
 pondence and diary, 45. 
 Miss, of ShadweU Court, MSS. 
 of, 44. 
 
 Byng, Sir George, naval operations, 
 70. 
 
 Calais, temp. Hen. VII. and 
 
 VIII., papei^, 45. 
 Cambridge, University of, College 
 
 bills, 29. 
 Magdalene College, Pepys 
 
 MSS. in, 62. 
 Canada, papers relating to, 31, 40. 
 Canadian Expedition under 
 
 General Wolfe, papers, 29. 
 Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, copy 
 
 of, 25. 
 Cape Breton Island, colliery on, 53. 
 Capell, Lord, papers relating to 
 
 sequestration of estate of, 
 
 50, 
 
78 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Capell. See also Essex, Earl of. 
 
 Oarleton papers, 53. 
 
 Carlisle, Earl of, MSS. of, 37. 
 
 Fifth Earl of, Frederick 
 Howard, diary and negotia- 
 tions with the Americans, 
 and as Lord -Lieutenant of 
 Ireland, correspondence, 37. 
 
 Carribo Islands, papers referring 
 to, 62. 
 
 Carthagena, letters from, 69. 
 
 Catherine de' Medici, letters of, 33. 
 
 Cavendish family, papers of, 33. 
 
 Cawarden, Sir Thomas, Master of 
 the Revels, etc., temp. Henry 
 VIII., papers of, 19. 
 
 Cawdor, Earl, 11. 
 
 Caylus, M. de. Governor of Mar- 
 tinique, correspondence of, 
 captured, 54. 
 
 Cecil MSS., 8, 26. 
 
 Charles I., King, progresses in 
 Scotland, 31. 
 papers relating to, 37. 
 holograph letters of, 46. 
 
 Charles II., King, letters from, 33. 
 papers relating to, 37. 
 correspondence of chief ad- 
 visers of, when in exile, 45. 
 
 Charles Edward Stuart, Prince, 
 the Pretender, MSS. relat- 
 ing to, 15. 
 
 Chatham papers, the, 11. 
 
 Chatham, Lady. See Grenville. 
 
 Cherbourg papers, 1758, 40. 
 
 Cheshire documents, 15. 
 
 Chicksaud Priory, co. Beds, 46. 
 
 Church plate, 57. 
 
 Churches in shires of England and 
 Wales, 43. 
 
 Ciphers of the reign of Charles I., 
 key to, 62. 
 
 Civil War papers, 18, 19, 20, 21, 
 26 (2), 32, 37, 41, 50, 59. 
 Reports containing references 
 to, 66. 
 
 Clarendon, Earl of, letters from, 56. 
 . See also Hyde. 
 
 Clarke : 
 
 Dr. George, collections of, 41. 
 
 autobiography of, 41. 
 Sir William, collections of, 41. 
 Clarke-Thomhill, T. B., Esq., MSS. 
 
 of, 45. 
 Clayton, Sir William, MSS. of, 47. 
 Clifton, Sir Gervase, correspond- 
 ence of, 49. 
 Clinton, General Sir Henry, list of 
 
 troops serving under, 53. 
 letters of, 55. 
 Clive, Lord, correspondence with, 
 
 16. 
 Coalmining, 61. 
 Coke MSS., at Melbourne Hall, 
 
 Derbyshire, 31. 
 Coke, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, 
 
 etc., MSS. of, 25. 
 Sir John, Secretary of State, 
 
 temp. Charles I., papers of, 
 
 31. 
 Thomas, Vice-Chamberlain, 
 
 correspondence of, 32. 
 CoUege bills, 29. 
 
 Collegiate MSS., reports on, 14. 
 Colonies, the, papers relating to, 
 
 22, 40. 
 Combe, chapelry of, papers relat- 
 ing to, 47. 
 Commissions not found in Patent 
 
 Rolls series, 39. 
 Common fields, agreement by 
 
 villagers for cultivation of 
 
 (1452), 61. 
 Compton, Spencer, Treasurer to 
 
 Prince George of Denmark, 
 
 etc., letters and accounts, 
 
 29. 
 Coningsby family papers, 19. 
 Conspiracies and Plots, reports 
 
 containing references to, 
 
 70, 71. 
 Contarini, Andrea, Doge of Venice, 
 
 letters from, 24. 
 Conway, Lord, naval papers, 69. 
 Cooke, P. B. D., Esq., MSS. of, 
 
 17. 
 
INDEX 
 
 79 
 
 Coote, Sir Eyre, Commander in 
 
 Chief in India, letters, 24. 
 Comevalle, Master Heldris de, poet 
 
 of the Arthurian cycle, 62. 
 Comwallis Papers, the, 11. 
 
 (Cornwaleys). Sir Thomas, 
 
 cartularies and deeds of, 22. 
 
 Charles, First Marquis, papers 
 
 of, 21. 
 Sir C, letters, etc., 26. 
 Admiral the Hon. Sir William, 
 " Blue Billy," correspond- 
 ence of, 49, 70. 
 Courcelles, French Ambassador to 
 Scotland, precis of negotia- 
 tions, 25. 
 Court Rolls, 18. 
 Coventry, William, Secretary of 
 
 State, papers of, 23. 
 Cowper, Earl, MSS. of, 31. 
 Cranfield, Lionel, First Earl of 
 Middlesex, See Middlesex. 
 Croke, Sir John, Speaker of the 
 House of Commons, note- 
 book of, 41. 
 Cromwell, Memorials of the House 
 of, 41. 
 Frances, the Protector's 
 youngest daughter, papers 
 relating to, 42. 
 Mary, 44. 
 
 Oliver, holograph letters of, 46. 
 Richard, papers, 19. 
 Cuba, letters from, 69. 
 Cumberland, George, Earl of, 
 commanding at sea, letters 
 of, 69. 
 Richard, letters on Spanish 
 affairs, 40. 
 Cutts, Lord, in Flanders, etc., 
 papers, 42. 
 
 Danby, Earl of, correspondence of, 
 
 36. 
 Danish nobility, c. 1669, list, etc., 
 
 50. 
 
 Dartmouth, Earl of, MSS. of, 8, 30. 
 
 Second Earl of. Colonial 
 
 Secretary of State, " the 
 
 good lord," papers of, 30, 
 
 31. 
 
 Davenport, Miss F. G., appendix 
 
 by, 7. 
 Deeds, etc.. Mediaeval, Reports 
 
 which refer to, 14, 63. 
 Definitive Treaty, Paris, 1763, 22. 
 De Foe correspondence, 34. 
 De Grey, Anne, 27. 
 De Hceresis Anglicance, etc. Com- 
 
 meritarius, Ireland, 25. 
 De la Warr, Earl, MSS. of, 15. 
 Delaval, Capt. George, serving in 
 
 the Navy, 69. 
 Denbigh, co. of, papers connected 
 
 with, 17. 
 Denbigh, Earl of, MSS. of, 58. 
 
 firat Earl, Master of the Royal 
 Wardrobe, etc., papers, 58. 
 Basil, second Earl, Ambassa- 
 dor in Italy, etc., papers, 56. 
 Basil, sixth Earl of, letters 
 from, 60. 
 
 , political correspondence 
 
 (1776-1800), 58. 
 Isabella de Yonge, Countess 
 of, wife of William, fifth 
 Earl, correspondence, 58, 
 59 (2), 60. 
 Denmark, British Plenipotentiary 
 
 in, correspondence, 57. 
 D'Eon, Chevalier, papers relating 
 
 to, 36. 
 Derby, co. of, rentals, etc. of 
 manors in, 25. 
 
 , Election intrigues in, 
 
 32. 
 family, papers connected with, 
 17. 
 D'Ewes', Sir Symonds, " Parlia- 
 
 mentarie Journal," 21. 
 Diceto, Ralph de. Annals of, 16. 
 Digby, Lord, correspondence, 21. 
 G. W., Esq., MSS. of, 21. 
 H., correspondence, 21. 
 
80 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Dillingham, John, letters to Lord 
 Montagu, 44. 
 
 Diplomatic History {English), 
 Materials for, 7. 
 
 Dodington, George Bubb, corres- 
 pondence of, 47, 48. 
 
 Dorchester papers, 53. 
 
 Dorset, co. of, Parliamentary 
 Committee of. Minutes, 21. 
 
 Dropmore MSS., 35. 
 
 Drummond, John, Scotch Mer- 
 chant at Amsterdam, corres- 
 pondence, 34. 
 
 Du Cane, Lady, MSS. of, 54. 
 
 Dudley, Lord Robert, papers 
 connected with, 62. 
 
 Dunch, Edmund, of Wittenham, 
 letters to, 46. 
 
 Dunster Castle, deeds relating to, 
 64. 
 
 Dutch fleet, engagements with, in 
 1673, 30. 
 
 East Anglia, Jewish bankers in, 47- 
 East Indies, papers relating to» 
 
 15, 17, 21, 24. 
 Ecclesiastical MSS., Reports on, 
 
 13. 
 matters, 35. 
 Edward II., King, Wardrobe 
 
 book of, 23. 
 Edward III., King, Household 
 
 charges of, 21. 
 Egmont, Earl of, MSS. of, 55. 
 Egremont, Earl of. Secretary of 
 
 State, MSS. of, 16. 
 Eighteenth Century material, 37. 
 Election intrigues, 32. 
 Eliot, Sir John, MSS. of, 14. 
 Elizabeth, Queen, inventories of 
 
 wardrobe of, 23. 
 
 , letters of, 33. 
 
 of Bohemia, holograph letters 
 
 of, 46. 
 daughter of Charles I., a 
 
 letter of, 62. 
 
 Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of 
 George III., letters from, 56. 
 
 EUis, Henry, Governor of Georgia, 
 etc., correspondence, 48 (2). 
 
 Emly, Lord, MSS. of, 21. 
 
 England in the time of Cromwell's 
 Protectorate, account of, 
 44. 
 Spain, and the Archduke Al- 
 bert, treaty between, 1604, 
 21. 
 
 English, a document of 1425 in, 61. 
 
 Erne, Sir John, Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, papers of, 46. 
 John Kyrle, 46. 
 
 Essex, CO. of, papers relating to, 18. 
 
 Essex, Earl of, MSS. of, 49. 
 
 , Arthur Capel, Lord- 
 
 Lieutenant of Ireland, 
 papers of, 24. 
 
 Evangelical Movement of the 
 Eighteenth Century, 31. 
 
 Evelyn, John, MSS. originally be- 
 longing to, 62. 
 
 Evesham Abbey deeds, 17. 
 
 Exchequer accounts, 21. 
 
 Exeter, City of, Report upon 
 Municipal Records of, 13. 
 
 EyTe-Matcham, Miss M., MSS. of, 
 47. 
 
 Ffarington, Miss, MSS. of, 17. 
 
 Fairfax family papers, 44. 
 
 Fanshaw, Sir Richard, Bart., Am- 
 bassador in Spain and Por- 
 tugal, correspondence, 40. 
 
 Fauconberg, Belasyse, Viscount, 
 family papers, 44. 
 
 Fawkes, Ayscough, Esq., MSS. of, 
 18. 
 
 Feilding, Basil, Lord, Ambassador 
 to Italy, despatches, etc., 
 58, 59; and see Denbigh, 
 Earl of. 
 
 FeuUlerat, M., Documents relating 
 to the Bevels in the time of 
 Queen Elizabeth, 19. 
 
INDEX 
 
 81 
 
 Field, Thomas, Abbot of Burton- 
 
 on-Trent, Register of, 61. 
 Fields, common, cultivation of, 61 
 Filiol family, 60. 
 
 Finch, Allen George, Esq., MSS. 
 of, 63. 
 Daniel, second Earl of Not- 
 tingham, Secretary of State, 
 correspondence, 63. 
 Sir Heneage, afterwards Earl 
 of Nottingham, correspond- 
 ence, 63. 
 Sir John, Ambassador to 
 Turkey, correspondence, 
 63 ; and see Winchilsea, Earl 
 of. 
 Fitzpatrick, Walter, 35. 
 Five Members, the, proceedings 
 
 against, 56. 
 Flanders, campaigns in, corres- 
 pondence, 32. 
 trade with, 62. 
 Flint, CO. of, papers connected 
 
 with, 17. 
 Flitcham deeds, 47. 
 Foljambe, F. Savile, Esq., MSS. of, 
 
 37. 
 Forester, Lady Mary, letters to, 40. 
 Fortescue MSS., 13, 35. 
 Fountains Abbey, 15. 
 
 Register of, 16. 
 Fox, Henry, correspondence, 21, 
 
 47. 
 France, Court of, British Envoy 
 Extraordinary or Ambassa- 
 dor to, papers of, 17, 18, 23, 
 36. 
 
 , letters from, 52. 
 
 Embassy of 1449 to King of, 
 papers connected with, 56. 
 letters from, 60, 62. 
 negotiations, 1668-78, with, 38. 
 observations on state of, 21. 
 Protestant Refugees in Hol- 
 land, from, 42. 
 romances and fabliaux, 62. 
 Frank, F. Bacon, Esq., MSS. of, 
 17. 
 
 Frankland family papers, 41. 
 
 John, Dean of Gloucester, 
 
 42. 
 Thomas, son of Sir William, of 
 Thirkleby, co. York, 42. 
 Frederick, Prince of Wales, letters 
 
 from, 48. 
 Frere, G. E., Esq., MSS. of, 18. 
 Frevilles of Tamworth, 60. 
 Fugitives beyond seas, 43. 
 
 G 
 
 Gawdy MSS., 27. 
 
 Sir John, Anne, daughter and 
 
 heiress of, 27. 
 Philip, letters of, 18. 
 Gelderland, sport in, 32. 
 Gell: 
 
 Anthony, Queen Elizabeth's 
 Feodaryf or Derbyshire, etc., 
 papers, 25. 
 Sir Anthony, Military Pro- 
 
 ceedings, Civil War, 26. 
 Philip, prisoner of pirates, 
 letters, etc., 26. 
 George, Prince of Wales, after- 
 wards George IV., letters 
 from, 56. 
 Prince, of Denmark, Secretary 
 to, 41. 
 Georgia, paper relating to, 48. 
 Gibbon, Edward, the historian, 
 
 letters from, 14. 
 Gibraltar, Siege of, 42. 
 Glemham Hall, Suffolk, MSS. at 
 
 47. 
 Gloucester, Duke of. See William 
 
 Henry, Prince. 
 Godolphin, Sidney, Earl of, corres- 
 pondence, 34. 
 Golden Grove Book, The, 11. 
 Gonsalvi, Cardinal, Papal Secre- 
 tary of State, 51. 
 Gorhambury, MSS. at, 56. 
 Graham : 
 
 Sir F., MSS. of, 17. 
 Sir R., MSS. of, 16. 
 
 6 
 
82 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Graham, Sir Richard, Viscount 
 Preston, Envoy Extraordin- 
 ary, France, 1682, 17. 
 
 Grahme, F., family letters from, 46. 
 
 Granby, Marquess of, 32. 
 
 Grenville papers, Report on, 13, 35. 
 
 Grenville, Lord, founder of Drop- 
 more, 35; correspondence 
 of, 36. 
 Hester, afterwards Lady 
 
 Chatham, letters from, 60. 
 William Wyndham, corres- 
 pondence, 35. 
 
 Greville, Sir Fulke, afterwards 
 Lord Brooke, correspond- 
 ence, 31. 
 
 Grey, Henry, Lord, of Codnor, 
 household accounts of, 62 
 
 Greys, de, of Codnor, 60. 
 
 Grimston of Grimston Garth, 
 family papers of, 54. 
 Edward, sent on an Embassy 
 
 to France, papers, 56. 
 Sir Edward, Controller of 
 Calais, prisoner in the 
 Bastille, 56. 
 Sir Harbottle, Master of the 
 Rolls, papers of, 56. 
 
 Ouide to the Inspectors' Reports, 
 Part I. r 7, 9; described, 12. 
 
 Gulliver's Travels, letters on publi- 
 cation of, 51. 
 
 Gunpowder Plot, 14, 16, 45, 70. 
 
 H 
 
 Hague, embassies to The, corres- 
 pondence, etc., 36, 52. 
 newsletters from, 42. 
 Hamilton, Lt. -Governor Henry, 
 
 report of proceedings, 40. 
 Hampden, Viscount. See Trevor. 
 Hampton Court Conference, In- 
 structions to the Puritan 
 •Clergy, etc., 43. 
 Hanoverian State papers, 23. 
 Hare family, MSS. relating to, 27. 
 James, correspondence, 37. 
 
 Harford, Mrs., MSS. of, 45. 
 Harley family, papers of, 33, 51. 
 Harley.- 
 
 Robert, afterwards Earl of 
 
 Oxford, correspondence, 9, 
 
 33, 34, 51. 
 Edward, afterwards Lord 
 
 Harley and second Earl of 
 
 Oxford, 34. 
 Harpley deeds, 47. 
 Harriot, astronomer and mathe- 
 matician, 16. 
 Harvey : 
 
 Sir George, Knt., Lieutenant 
 
 of the Tower, 1603, papers, 
 
 18. 
 Dr. WiUiam, physician, letters 
 
 from Italy, 59. 
 Hastings, Warren, Governor of 
 
 Bengal, correspondence, 24, 
 Hatfield Forest Court Rolls, 18. 
 
 Regis Priory Charters, 18. 
 Hatton MSS., 14. 
 Haughmond, Abbey of, cartulary 
 
 of, 64, 65. 
 Heathcote, J. M., Esq., MSS. of, 
 
 40. 
 Heidelberg, a manuscript in Uni- 
 versity library of, 5. 
 Henry VIII., King, declaration of 
 
 the Eight Bishops in favour 
 
 of King's power in Ecclesi. 
 
 astical affairs, 24. 
 Henry, son of James I., ceremonies 
 
 at creation of Prince of 
 
 Wales, 46. 
 Henry IV. of France, letters of, 33. 
 Henry, Duke, Treaty with King 
 
 Stephen, 65. 
 Herriard, manor of, court rolls, 47. 
 Higden's Polychronicon, 65. 
 Hippisley, Sir John Coxe, 50. 
 Hobart family, MSS. relating to, 
 
 27, 54. 
 See also Buckinghamshire, 
 
 Earl of. 
 Hodgkin, Eliot, of Richmond, 
 
 Surrey, MSS. of, 36. 
 
INDEX 
 
 83 
 
 Holkliam parish deeds, 47. 
 
 Holland, French Protestant re- 
 fugees in, 42. 
 trade with, 62. 
 
 Holies family, papers of, 33, 38. 
 Col. Gervase, correspondence, 
 etc., 52. 
 
 Holmcultram Abbey, Cumberland, 
 17. 
 
 Horses and stable matters, 16. 
 
 Horse racing, 32. 
 
 Horsham St. Faith, Religious 
 House of, 66. 
 
 Houpplines, Jean de, French 
 Secretary to the Council of 
 Calais, papers of, 45. 
 
 House of Lords MSS., 28. 
 
 Household books and accounts, 21, 
 22, 32, 44, 45, 62. 
 effects, 57. 
 
 Hoveden's Chronicle, 65. 
 
 Howard, Frederick. See Carlisle, 
 fifth Earl of. 
 
 Howe, Sir WiUiam, orderly book 
 at Boston, etc., 53. 
 
 Hungerfordanium, Begistrum, 
 copies of deeds, 65. 
 
 Huntingdon, Lady,letters from, 42. 
 
 Husthwaite with Carlton, co. York, 
 . manor of, court roUs of, 50. 
 
 Hyde Abbey, Register of, 23. 
 
 Hyde, Sir Edward, afterwards Earl 
 of Clarendon, letters during 
 Embassy to Spain, 52. 
 
 I 
 
 Ilchester, Lord, correspondence, 
 
 2L 
 Inchiquin, Earl of, army under, 41. 
 Indexes to Reports, 13. 
 India, papers relating to affairs of, 
 
 31, 40 (2). 
 Indulgences, trafiSc in, 61. 
 Ingilby, Sir Henry, MSS. of, 16; 
 
 supplement to, 18. 
 Inner Temple, Stewards' accounts, 
 
 26. 
 
 Inspectors employed by the His- 
 torical MSS. Commissions, 
 6; Reports of, described, 8. 
 Ireland, papers relating to, 15, 22, 
 24, 25, 48, 49, 62, 74. 
 after the Restoration, papers 
 
 relating to, 31. 
 1731-1783, series of letters, 40. 
 Court of Castle Chamber in, 
 
 entry-book of, 55. 
 Lord -Lieutenant of, corres- 
 pondence of, 37. 
 Viceroyalty of (1777-81), 
 papers, 55. 
 Ironstone working, 61. 
 Irwin, General, letters to, 40. 
 Italy and its religious houses, an 
 account of, 42. 
 in 1736, 60. 
 advices from, 62. 
 British Embassy to, papers, 68. 
 trade with, papers, 56. 
 
 Jacobite papers, 29, 36, 71. 
 
 Jamaica, letters from, 30, 60, 69. 
 
 James VI., King of Scotland, 
 (James I.), letters of, 33. 
 royal progress of, 16. 
 
 James, Duke of York, letters to 
 William, Prince of Orange, 
 37. 
 
 James Edward Stuart, the Old Pre- 
 tender, birth of, 15. 
 
 Jersey, Earl of, MSS. of, 21. 
 
 Jervoise, F. H. T., Esq., MSS. of, 46. 
 
 Jewel House papers, 18. 
 
 Jewish bankers in East Anglia, 47. 
 
 K 
 
 Kendal, letters from, 46. 
 Kenyon, Lord, MSS. of, 36. 
 Kilvington, co. Notts, manor of, 
 
 court rolls of, 50. 
 King's Bench, reports, 18. 
 
 officers and fees in courts, 
 
 royal households, etc., 43. 
 
84 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Kingswood, Abbey of, deeds of, 64. 
 Kirkpa trick : 
 papers, 17. 
 
 Col. James Achilles, 17. 
 General William, 17. 
 Kirkstead, Abbey of, books and 
 
 deeds, 57, 66. 
 Knole Park, MSS. at, 15, 17. 
 Knox, Capt. H. V., MSS. of, 48. 
 WiUiam, Under Secretary for 
 the Colonial Department, 
 1770-82, official papers of, 48. 
 Knyvet family, MSS. relating to, 
 27. 
 
 Labrador, papers relating to, 31. 
 
 Lamberty, Guillaume de, news- 
 letters from The Hague, 42. 
 
 Lancashire and Lancashire fami- 
 lies, material for history of, 
 36. 
 
 Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, after- 
 wards Lord, 45. 
 
 Langley, religious house of, 66. 
 
 Lansdowne, Marquess of, MSS. of, 
 14, 15. 
 
 Laud, Archbishop, visitations, 28. 
 
 Lauderdale, Lord, letters of, 46. 
 
 Law Reports, K.B., 18. 
 
 Laws, English, twelfth century, 65. 
 
 Leburn family, 61. 
 
 Leconfield, Lord, MSS. of, 16. 
 
 Legge, Col. William, on a mission 
 to Vienna, in 1661, letters 
 to, 30. 
 
 Leicester, Earl of, MSS. of, at 
 Holkham, 25 (2), 47. 
 , {temp. Eliz.), corres- 
 pondence, etc., 43, 62. 
 
 Le Neve family, MSS. relating to, 
 27. 
 Oliver, 27. 
 
 Peter, Norroy King of arms, 
 collection of MSS. of, 27. 
 
 Lennard -Barrett, Sir T., papers of, 
 46. 
 
 " Letters and Autographs," collec- 
 tion entitled, 43. 
 
 " Letters found in the Library " 
 (Longleat MSS.), 52. 
 
 Levant papers, Aleppo, etc., 20. 
 
 Leyborne-Popham, F. W., Esq., 
 MSS. of, 41. 
 
 Liber Landavensis, 1 7. 
 
 Liber Sanctce Marice of Holmcul- 
 tram Abbey, 17. 
 
 Libri, Professor, 23. 
 
 Liege, letters from, 46. 
 
 Lieutenancy Journals, 1675-89, 54. 
 
 Limerick, Siege of, 41. 
 
 Lindsey, Robert, first Earl of, 
 correspondence, 56. 
 
 Liverpool families, 36. 
 
 Loftus cause, papers, 46. 
 
 London, Fire of, 26, 
 sanitation of, 62. 
 
 Longleat, MSS. at, 51. 
 
 Loo, the, in Gelderland, sport in, 32. 
 
 Loseley MSS., 18, 19. 
 
 Lothian, Marquess of, MSS. of, 54. 
 
 Lovel, Sir Thomas, Household 
 accounts of, 32. 
 
 Low Countries, campaigns in, 
 correspondence, etc., 36. 
 
 , correspondence, temp. 
 
 Eliz., 56. 
 
 Lowndes, George Allen, Esq., MSS. 
 of, 18. 
 
 Lyttelton : 
 
 Charles, Bishop of Carlisle, 
 
 correspondence of, 23. 
 William Henry, Governor of 
 South Carolina and Jam- 
 aica, afterwards Lord Lyt- 
 telton, etc.. correspondence, 
 48. 
 
 M 
 
 Macartney, Lord, Governor of 
 Madras, correspondence etc., 
 24. 
 
 Macaulay, Alexander, letters of, to 
 Viscount Lewisham; 31. 
 
INDEX 
 
 85 
 
 Macclesfield, Earl of, MSS. of, 14. 
 Lord Chancellor, correspond- 
 ence of, 23. 
 
 Macpherson, John, correspond- 
 ence, 24. 
 
 Madrid, letters from British Minis- 
 ter at, 48. 
 
 Malet, Sir A., MSS. of, 15. 
 
 Malreward family, 61. 
 
 Manchester, Duke of, papers of, 
 12, 22. 
 fourth Earl of. Embassy to 
 Venice, papers, 22. 
 
 Manchester families, 36. 
 
 Mann, Horace, letters from, 47. | 
 
 Manners, Lord Robert, corres- | 
 pondence, 69. 
 
 Manuscripts, accessibility of, 10. 
 
 Manvers, Earl, MSS. of, 25. 
 
 Maps of parishes and manors, 47. 
 
 Marchmont MSS., 57. 
 
 Marlborough, Duke of, MSS. of, 
 20. 
 John, first Duke of, letters i 
 and papers, 9, 20, 51. \ 
 
 Sarah, Duchess of, letters and 
 papers, 9, 19, 20, 22. 
 
 Marmion family, 60. 
 
 Mary, Queen, letters of, 33. 
 
 Mary, Queen of Scots, MSS. relating 
 to, 15, 25, 62. 
 letters of, 33. 
 
 Mary, Princess of Orange, letters 
 from, 40. 
 
 Maryland, Settlement in, 45. 
 
 Materials for English Diplomatic 
 History, 1509-1783, 7. 
 
 Medici, Catherine de', letters of, 
 33. 
 
 Mediaeval deeds, etc., reports 
 which refer to, 63. 
 
 Medley, Vice-Admiral, papers of, 
 54, 70. 
 
 Merchants Adventurers, Company 
 of, papers, 56. 
 
 Middlesex, first Earl of, corres- 
 pondence of, 15, 17. 
 
 Middleton, Lord, MSS. of, 60. 
 
 Mildmay: 
 
 Col. F. Carew Harvey, Officer 
 of the Jewel House, papers, 
 18. 
 Capt. H. S. St. John, MSS. of, 
 18. 
 Minden papers, 1759-60, 40. 
 Minorca, 1776-82, papers, 40. 
 Mint, the, papers relating to, 16, 20. 
 Money-Kyrle, Major, MSS. of, 46. 
 Monmouthshire papers, 19. 
 Monmouth, Duke of. Rebellion, 
 
 20, 40, 71. 
 Montagu family papers, 22, 38. 
 
 House, MSS. at, 38. 
 Montagu : 
 
 Lord, of BeauUeu, MSS. of, 43. 
 
 George, letters of, 22. 
 
 Ralph, Ambassador in France, 
 
 1678, correspondence, 36. 
 William, son of Lord Montagu, 
 subsequently Chief Baron, 
 letters, 38, 42. 
 Montagu- Arlington letters, negotia- 
 tions with France, 38. 
 Montfort, de, of Beldesert, 60. 
 More: 
 
 Sir George, of Loseley, 19. 
 Sir Thomas, of Loseley, 19. 
 More-Molyneux, W., Esq., MSS. of, 
 
 18, 19. 
 Morrison : 
 
 AKred, Esq., MSS. of, 26. 
 Sir Richard, Ambassador to 
 Emperor Charles V., news- 
 letter, 50. 
 Morteins, de, 60. 
 Mossingham, College and Chantry 
 
 of St. Mary of, 64. 
 Mottesfont Priory, co. Hants, 46. 
 Municipal MSS., Reports on, 13. 
 Musters, Books of, 37, 43, 57. 
 
 N 
 Nalson, Dr. John, collections of, 
 
 33. 
 Napier papers, the, 12. 
 
86 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Napoleon Bonaparte, first Consul, 
 
 letters from, 24. 
 Naval affairs, 1671-73, 31, 35. 
 Navy, the. Reports containing 
 
 contributions to British 
 
 Naval History, 68. 
 Navy, state of, 26, 31. 
 Nennius' Historia Britonium, 16. 
 Neville: 
 
 Sir Henry, Ambassador to 
 
 France, 1599-1600, papers 
 
 of, 22. 
 Richard Neville Aldworth, 
 
 M.P., Under Secretary of 
 
 State, etc., papers of, 22. 
 New Brunswick, agent for, papers, 
 
 48. 
 Newcastle, Duke of, 21. 
 
 John, Duke of, correspond- 
 ence, 33. 
 New England, first plantation of, 
 
 62. 
 Newfoundland, papers relating to, 
 
 31. 
 Newhouse, Abbey of, books and 
 
 deeds, 56, 66. 
 Newminster Abbey, cartulary of, 
 
 65. 
 Newnham Paddox, MSS. at, 58. 
 News-letters, 26, 55, 59. 
 
 foreign, 44. 
 Newstead Priory, co. Notts, 46. 
 Newton : 
 
 Rev. John, of Olney, corres- 
 pondence, 31. 
 Sir Isaac, Mint papers, 20. 
 New York, Coroners' inquests at, 
 
 vessels entered and cleared, 
 
 etc., 1782-3, 54. 
 Nieuport, English occupation of, 
 
 in 1678, papers, 30. 
 Nobility, list of, temp. Jas. I., 43. 
 Nonesuch Palace papers, 19. 
 Norfolk, CO. of, deeds, etc., 45. 
 
 families, MSS. relating to, 27 
 Norfolk, Duke of, MSS. of, 45. 
 Norris, Admiral Sir John, Baltic 
 
 papers, 29, 68. 
 
 Northampton, Elizabeth, Countess 
 of, private correspondence, 
 29. 
 Northumberland, Duke of, MSS. 
 of, 14. 
 Henry, ninth Earl of, 16. 
 Algernon, tenth Earl, Lord 
 High Admiral, 16. 
 Nottingham, co. of, Civil War 
 papers, 50. 
 
 , manors in, rentals, etc., 
 
 25. 
 Earl of. See Finch. 
 Nova Scotia, papers relating to, 
 
 31, 40. 
 Numerale, a, 57. 
 Nuncio's Memoirs, The, 25. 
 
 Gates; Titus, 70. 
 
 O'Brien, Sir Lucius, letters from, 
 49. 
 
 0' Conor, Mr., of Belanagore, Ros- 
 common, historian of Ire- 
 land, papers of, 24. 
 
 " Offices of England" (1608), 6. 
 
 Ogilvie, Capt. John, a spy, corres- 
 pondence, 34. 
 
 " Orders, Passes, and Commis- 
 sions," collection entitled, 
 43. 
 
 Ormonde, Duke of, letters from, 30. 
 
 , Commander-in-Chief in 
 
 the Low Countries, corres- 
 pondence, 36. 
 
 Otway, Thomas, Minister iin- 
 prisoned in Ilchester Gaol, 
 papers, 20. 
 
 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 21. 
 
 Oxford, Earl of. See Harley. 
 
 Palmer, Ralph, letters to, 1690- 
 
 1736, 16. 
 Palmes, General, letters, 1708-10, 
 
 20. 
 
INDEX 
 
 87 
 
 Papal bulls, 47. 
 
 " Papers and Letters on Public 
 
 Events," collection en- 
 titled, 43. 
 Papillon, Pelham R., Esq., MSS. of, 
 
 46. 
 Paris, letters from, from exiled 
 
 cavaliers at, 52. 
 Embassy at, 1698-99, corres- 
 pondence, 52. 
 Parliament, petitions to, 35. 
 
 proceedings in, 20, 25, 28, 37, 
 
 55. 
 Parliamentarie Journal (D'Ewes), 
 
 21. 
 Partition Treaty papers, 22. 
 Paston Letters, 18. 
 
 Sir Robert, first Earl of 
 
 Yarmouth, letters of, 16. 
 Patent Rolls enrolments missing, 
 
 39. 
 Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, 33. 
 Pembroke, Earl of, MSS. of, 
 
 25. 
 Pengelly : 
 
 Sergeant Thomas, letters and 
 
 papers, 19, 20. 
 Thomas, merchant, Aleppo, 
 
 etc., correspondence, 20. 
 Penn family, papers of, 33. 
 Penn, Capt., journal of cruise in 
 
 Southern Seas, 69. 
 Pepys correspondence, 36. 
 
 MSS. at Magdalene College, 
 
 Cambridge, 62. 
 Percival family, papers, 55. 
 Persons, Father, treatises by and 
 
 against, 25. 
 Pery, Edmund Sexten, Speaker of 
 
 L-ish House of Commons, 
 
 correspondence, etc., 21. 
 Peterborough, Monastery of, 
 
 valor of, 50. 
 Phelips' MSS., 14. 
 Pbelps, Richard, Under-Secretary 
 
 of State, correspondence of, 
 
 23. 
 Picard dialect, romances in, 62. 
 
 Pitt: 
 
 Anne, Maid of Honour to 
 Queen Caroline, corres- 
 pondence, 35. 
 Thomas, Governor of Madras 
 for the E. I. Company, 
 correspondence, 35. 
 William, correspondence, etc., 
 21, 56. 
 
 Pleshey, Castle of, inventory of 
 armour, etc., in, 50. 
 
 Pole-Gell, H. C, Esq., MSS. of, 25. 
 
 Political anecdotes, 49. 
 
 Polwarth, Lord, MSS. of, 57. 
 
 Alexander, Lord, Plenipoten- 
 tiary in Denmark, diplo- 
 matic correspondence, 57. 
 
 Popham, Col. Edward, General- 
 at-Sea for the Common- 
 wealth, correspondence, 41. 
 
 Popish plot, The, 70 
 
 Porte, The. ^See Turkey. 
 
 Portland, Duke of, MSS. of, 33. 
 See also Bath MSS. 
 
 Portsmouth, Earl of, MSS. of, 20. 
 
 Portugal, 42. 
 
 Embassy to, correspondence, 
 40. 
 
 Preston, Viscount (Sir Richard 
 Preston), official papers of, 
 17. 
 
 Pretender, The, Old and Young, 
 15, and see Jacobite papers. 
 
 Prince Edward Island, agent for, 
 papers, 48. 
 See also St. John, 
 
 Pringle, Admiral, 12. 
 
 Prior, Matthew, letters from, as 
 public servant and diplo- 
 matist, 52. 
 
 Proby, Capt. of H.M.S. Thunderer, 
 49. 
 
 Protectorate papers, 17, 20. 
 
 Psalters, 23. 
 
 Public Archives, papers concern- 
 ing, 56. 
 
 Public Record Office, the, MSS. pre- 
 sented to, 11. 
 
88 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Puleston papers, 17. 
 Pyne: 
 
 Col. J., of Curry Mallet, Civil 
 War papers, 26. 
 
 Rev. W., MSS. of, 26. 
 
 Radcliffe, Sir George, letters from 
 
 Paris 52 
 Raffles, T. s!, Esq., MS8. of, 17. 
 Ralegh, Sir Walter, 16; papers, 26. 
 Religious Houses, Abbots of, letters 
 
 from, tem'p. Henry VII. 
 
 and VIII., 24. 
 Restoration, the, a narrative of, 41. 
 Revels papers, 19. 
 Revett, Col. Edmund, in Portugal, 
 
 papers, 42. 
 Revolution of 1688, papers relat- 
 ing to, 58. 
 Rich family papers, 22. 
 Rich, Robert, 42. 
 Rinuccini MSS., the, 24. 
 Ripon, Marquess of, MSS. of, 15, 
 Rivers, Lord, expedition to 
 
 Valencia under, 51. 
 Robsart, Amy, papers connected 
 
 with, 62. 
 Rochester, Earl of (John Wilmot), 
 
 letters to, 52. 
 Roman Catholic Party, temp. 
 
 Elizabeth and James L, 
 
 papers concerning, 46, 
 Rooke, Sir George, Expedition 
 
 imder, 69. 
 Rose, Rt. Hon. Sir George, 57. 
 Roseingrave, William, second 
 
 Secretary to the Lords 
 
 Justices of Ireland, letters 
 
 from, 46. 
 Rothley, co. Leicester, manor and 
 
 soke of, 50. 
 Royal Institution, American MSS. 
 
 in the, 53. 
 RufEord Abbey, cartulary of, 65. 
 Rumford, Count. See Thompson. 
 Rupert, Prince, letters from, 30. 
 
 Rushton, manuscripts walled up 
 
 at, 45. 
 Russell: 
 
 family, papers, 42. 
 Lieut. -Colonel Charles, letters 
 relative to campaigns of, 42. 
 Sir John, 42, 
 
 Lord William, warrants for 
 
 decapitation of, 47. 
 
 Russell-Astley, Mrs. Frankland, 
 
 of Chequers Court, MSS, of, 
 
 41. 
 
 Rutland, Duke of, MSS, of, 11, 32. 
 
 Report on, 13. 
 Ryswick, Congress of, correspond- 
 ence, 52. 
 Journal of proceedings at, 52. 
 
 S 
 Sackville; 
 
 family letters and papers, 40. 
 
 Lord, MSS, of, 17. 
 
 Lord George, son of Lionel, 
 
 first Duke of Dorset, letters 
 
 and papers of, 39, 40, 
 St. Albans election papers, 56. 
 
 Monastery Charters, 20. 
 St. Briavel, Manor of, deeds of, 47. 
 St. Germans, Earl of, MSS. of, 14. 
 St. John, Island of, papers relating 
 
 to, 31, 53. 
 St. Malo papers, 1758, 40. 
 St. Petersburg, Embassy to (1762- 
 
 65), papers, 55. 
 Salisbury, Marquess of, MSS. of. 
 
 See Cecil MSS. 
 Savile, Sir George, of Rufford, 
 
 M,P. for Yorkshire, etc, 
 
 correspondence of, 37. 
 Saville, Henry, letters from, to 
 
 Earl of Rochester, 52. 
 Savoy, Duke of, 20. 
 Sawyer's " Memorialls of Affair.^ 
 
 of State,"" etc. (Win wood 
 
 Papers), 22, 38. 
 Schonberg, Count, army under, 41. 
 Scotland, Reports relating to, 74. 
 Scottish affairs, 35, 43. 
 
INDEX 
 
 89 
 
 Sel borne Priory, co. Hants, 46. 
 
 Selwyn, George, collection of 
 letters of, 1767-1790, 37. 
 
 Seven Years' War, papers, 40. 
 
 Seventeenth Century correspond- 
 ence, 37. 
 
 Shaftesbury papers, the, 12. 
 
 Shakespearean drama, 19. 
 
 Sheffield Castle, Talbot papers at, 
 17. 
 
 Shelbume, William, Earl of, MSS. 
 of, 14, 15. 
 
 Sherwood Forest, pleas, etc., 25. 
 
 Shrewsbury papers, 39. 
 
 Shrewsbury: 
 
 Earls of. Lives of, 17. 
 Earl and Duke of, Charles 
 Talbot, correspondence of, 
 39. 
 Duke of, letters from, 51. 
 
 Sibton Abbey, co. Suffolk, deeds 
 relating to, 64. 
 
 Slingesby, Henry, Master of the 
 Mint, papers of, 16. 
 
 Somersetshire, materials for 
 history of, 16. 
 
 Somerset, Duke of, letters of, 19. 
 
 Songs, lampoons, etc., 29. 
 
 Southern Seas, journal of a cruise 
 in the, 69. 
 
 Spain, Embassy to, correspond- 
 ence, 40, 52. 
 England and Archduke Albert, 
 treaty between, 1604, 21. 
 
 Spanish affairs, letters, 40. 
 Armadai 69. 
 Match, the, 56. 
 
 Sparham deeds, 47. 
 
 Speculum penitentis, 57. 
 
 Speed, Samuel, letters of, from 
 West Indies, 69. 
 
 Sport in Gelderland, 32. 
 
 Spragg, Admiral Sir Edward, 
 journals of, 31. 
 
 Stanhope, Secretary of State, des- 
 patches from The Hague, 23. 
 
 Staunton Manor, deeds and court 
 rolls, 50 (2). 
 
 Steele, Richard, letters from, 20, 
 
 42. 
 Stephen, King, treaty with Duke 
 
 Henry, 65. 
 Stepney, George, correspondence 
 
 of, 1694-1707, 14. 
 Sterne, Lawrence, letters from, 44. 
 Stixwold, convent of, co, Lincoln, 
 
 64. 
 Stopford-Sackville, Mrs., MSS. of, 
 
 39. 
 Storer, Anthony, correspondence, 
 
 37. 
 Stowe MSS., 23. 
 Strachey : 
 
 Sir E., MSS. of, 16. 
 
 Sir Henry, first Baronet, MSS. 
 
 of, 16. 
 John, F. R. S., MSS. of, 16. 
 Strafford, Dr. William, Canon of 
 
 Christ Church, Oxford, 
 
 letters of, 34. 
 Stuart MSS. at Windsor Castle, 50. 
 at Magdalene College, 
 
 Cambridge, 62. 
 letters brought from Jersey, 
 
 62. 
 Suffolk, Henrietta, Countess of, 
 
 letters to, 55. 
 Duchess of, 56. 
 Sunderland, Charles, Earl of, 
 
 letter-books, etc., 20. 
 Surrey, co. of, papers relating to, 19. 
 Sutherland, Duke of, MSS. of, 15. 
 Swift, Jonathan, letters to, 55. 
 
 Talbot papers at Sheffield Castle 
 
 17. 
 Talbot: 
 
 Lord, letters from, 47. 
 Charles. See Shrewsbury, 
 
 Earl and Duke of. 
 Lord Edmund, MSS. of, 45. 
 Sir Gilbert, K.G., Deputy 
 
 Governor of Calais, papers 
 
 of, 45. 
 
90 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Tangier, English possession of, 
 papers relating to, 30. 
 destruction, etc., of, 31. 
 
 Tapestry, 57. 
 
 Temple, Lord, letters of, 60. 
 
 Theatrical schemes, etc., of early 
 nineteenth century, 31. 
 
 Thompson : 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Benjamin, after- 
 wards Count Rumford, 
 correspondence, 40. 
 James, poet, letters from, 
 47. 
 
 Tittleshall deeds, 47. 
 
 Torrington, Earl, court-martial on, 
 69. 
 
 Tower of London papers, 18, 29 (2), 
 
 ol. 
 
 Townshend : 
 
 Marquess, MSS. of, 28. 
 Viscount, Ambassador at 
 
 The Hague, despatches to, 
 
 29. 
 Charles, letters, etc., of, 29. 
 Gedrge, afterwards fourth 
 
 Viscount and first Marquess, 
 
 Lady, correspondence, 60. 
 Travels, reports furnishing diaries 
 and journals of travel, 72, 
 73, 74. 
 Treatises, mediaeval, 57. 
 Treaty of Peace, 1604, 21. 
 Tresham : 
 
 Francis, papers concerning. 
 
 Sir Thomas, of Rushton, 
 temp. Elizabeth, correspond- 
 ence, etc., of, 45. 
 Trevor, Robert, afterwards Vis- 
 count Hampden, Embassy 
 to The Hague, 36. 
 
 Tucker, Rev. Josiah, afterwards 
 Dean of Gloucester, corres- 
 pondence of, 29. 
 
 Tuirn correspondence^ 59. 
 
 Turkey, Embassy to, correspond- 
 ence, 63. 
 
 U 
 
 United Provinces, Observations 
 
 upon, 21. 
 Universities, Colleges in, reports on 
 
 MSS. of, 14. 
 
 V 
 
 Valencia, expedition to, papers 
 
 relating to, 51. 
 Vane : 
 
 Sir Henry, letters to, 46. 
 
 Sir Walter, letters to, 46. 
 
 Vaudey, Abbey of, books and 
 
 deeds, 57, 66. 
 Venic 3 correspondence, 59. 
 Doge of, letters from, 24. 
 Embassy to, 1699, papers, 22. 
 Vere family, papers of, 33. 
 Verney, Sir Harry, MSS. of, 18. 
 Vernon letters, the, 39. 
 Vernon, Henry, of Haddon, corres- 
 pondence of, 32. 
 Verulam, Earl of, MSS. of, 56. 
 Vienna, British mission to, 1661, 
 
 letters, 30. 
 Villette, Marie, Marquise de, 
 
 second wife of Lord Bo- 
 lingbroke, series of letters 
 from, 60. 
 Virginia, voyages to, 22. 
 
 papers referring to, 62. 
 Voyages, 22. 
 
 Vulgate, uncial copy of the Latin, 
 61, 66. 
 
 W 
 
 v\^ainwright, Irish Chief Baron, 
 
 letters from, 47. 
 Walden Churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 21. 
 Wales, Reports relating to, 74. 
 Prince of. Ceremonies at 
 
 creation of, 46. 
 Walkingshaw, Miss, mistress of 
 
 Prince Charles Edward, 50. 
 Walpole, Horace, letters to, 22, 55. 
 Waltham Forest papers, 18. 
 
INDEX 
 
 91 
 
 War of the Austrian Succession, 
 
 papers, 40. 
 Wardrobe Books and Accounts, 23, 
 
 58. 
 Warwick, Earl of, the " King 
 
 Maker," a deed of, 11. 
 Waters, Abbe James, Procureur- 
 General of the English 
 Benedictines at Rome, 50. 
 Webb, Rev. T. W., MSS. of, 19. 
 Wellesley, the Marquis, 17. 
 Wentworth : 
 
 Sir Thomas, Lord Deputy of 
 
 Ireland, 46. 
 Mrs., of Woolley, family 
 papers, 45. 
 Westcote, Lord. See Lyttelton, 
 
 William Henry. 
 West Indies, papers relating to, 
 31, 40. 
 Operations of the British Fleet 
 against Spaniards in, 69. 
 Westmoreland, co. of, deeds, 45. 
 
 earliest records of, 64. 
 Wigan families, 36. 
 William of Leicester, called de 
 Montibus, Chancellor of 
 Lincoln, numerale, etc., of, 
 57. 
 William, Prince of Orange, after- 
 wards William III., letters 
 to, 37. 
 holograph letters of, 46. 
 voyage to Torbay, etc., 41, 
 58. 
 William Henry, Prince, Duke of 
 Gloucester, letters relating 
 to, 40. 
 Williams, Dr. Philip, collections of, 
 
 33. 
 Willoughby : 
 
 name of, whence derived, 60. 
 Sir Henry, Knight of the 
 
 Body to Henry VIIL, 61. 
 Peregrine, Lord, correspond- 
 ence of, 56. 
 Wilmington, Earl of. See Comp- 
 ton, Spencer. 
 
 Wilton Abbey deeds, etc., 25. 
 
 Wiltshire, documents relating to, 46 
 
 Winchilsea, Heneage, Earl of, 
 Ambassador to the Porte, 
 correspondence of, 63. 
 
 Wintney, priory of, co. Hants, 46. 
 
 Winwood, Sir Ralph, Ambassador 
 in France and Holland, and 
 Secretary of State, corres- 
 pondence, etc., 38. 
 
 Wolfe, General, Canadian Expedi 
 tion papers, 29. 
 
 Wolsey, Cardinal, accounts of, 23. 
 
 Wombwell, Sir George, Newburgh 
 Priory, MSS. of, 44. 
 
 Woodf orde : 
 
 Rev. A. J., MSS. of, 26. 
 Robert, Steward of North- 
 ampton, diary of, 26. 
 
 Worcester, co. of. Taxation Roll 
 for, 63. 
 Battle of, letters taken at, 62 
 Priory of, fragments of cartu- 
 lary, A.D. 1000, 61, 66- 
 
 , deeds of, 64. 
 
 College, Oxford, papers be- 
 queathed to, 41. 
 
 Wotton, Sir Henry, Ambassador to 
 the Emperor, letter from a 
 gentleman attending, 44. 
 
 Wykeham-Martin, Cornwallis, Esq. 
 MSS. of, 49. 
 
 Wytham, Somerset, Monastery at, 
 rent roll of, 47. 
 
 Yarmouth, Sir Robert Paston, 
 
 first Earl of, 16, 18. 
 Year Books, 25. 
 Yorkshire, papers connected with, 
 
 17 (2), 37. 
 York, Duke of. Household Books 
 
 of, 22. 
 letters from, in banishment, 
 
 30. 
 
 Z 
 
 Zouch family, 60. 
 
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