Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Secretary of State, Johu Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, who has in many instances added to, or even rewritten, the draft in his own hand. Six volumes. Paper. Folio. The contents are as follows:— 256. Phelps Papers. Vol. I. (ff. 320). 22 June, 1725—26 Sept. 1757. 1. Original Letters to E. Phelps from (a) W[illiam] B[agot, afterw. 1®‘ Baron Bagot]; Blithfield, [co. Staff.], 5 Nov. 1755. f. 280;— (h) Sn[eyd] Davies, [Prebendary of Lichfield, afterw. Archdeacon of Derby]; Eccleshall, Staffordshire, 17 Aug. 1751. f. 113;— (c) Joseph Spence, Eegius Professor of Modern History at Oxford ; London, 17 Feb., 8 Mar. 174|. ff. 103, 105. 2. Letters from Sir Benjamin Keene, K.B., Ambassador at Madrid, to (a) Thomas Pelham Holies, Duke of Newcastle ; Seville, Madrid, 24 Nov. 1730—11 Oct. 1752. Orig. and Copies, ff. 78-85, 97, 120, 123, 147-170, 173-210;—(b) Eobert Darcy, 4‘^ Earl of Holder- nesse; Morleja, near Madrid, and Madrid, 27 March, 30 June, 1752. Copies, ff. 115, 119, 130;—(c) William Henry Nassau, 4‘'‘ Earl of Eochford, Ambassador at Turin; Antigola, near Aranjues, 15 May, 1752. Cop]), f. 125 ;—(d) Sir Thomas Eobinson, Secretary of State; Antigola, Madrid, 17 June, 25 Sept. 1754. Orig. and Copies, ff. 211, 218, 221, 236, 251, 255, 266, 274;—(e) William Pitt, afterw. 1®‘ Earl of Chatham, Secretary of State, Madrid, 26 Sept. 1757. Copy. f. 292. 3. Copies of letters to Sir B. Keene from (a) the Duke of Newcastle; Whitehall, Kensington, 30 April, 1730—[—] Oct., 1732. ff. 76, 86-96;—(b) Lord Holdernesse; Whitehall, 2 April, 1752. f. 117; —(c) Joseph de Carvajal y Lancaster, Spanish Minister of State; Buen Eetiro, 3 July, 16 Aug. 1752. ff. 138, 171;—(d) Sir T. Eobinson; Whitehall, 8 July, 15 Aug. 1754. ff. 214, 253;—(e) W. Pitt; Whitehall, 23 Aug. 1757. f. 282. 4. J. de Carvajal y Lancaster to Gen. Eicardo Wall, Spanish Minister in London; Buen Eetiro, 9 April, 1752. Transl. f. 121. 5. Sir William Godolphin, Ambassador to Madrid, to Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State; Madrid, May, 1672. Copy. f. 305. 6. Joseph de Grimaldo Gutierrez, Marquis de Grimaldo, Secretary and Councillor of State, to William Stanhope, afterw. 1®‘ Earl of Harrington, Ambassador to Madrid; San Ildefonso, 13 July, 1725. Transl. f. 16. 7. Eev. John Henley, the “ Orator,” to Col. Sir Thomas De Veil, J.P. for CO. Middl. and Westminster; 8 Oct. 1745. Copy. f. 106 b. 8. Count Heinrich von Podewils and Count A Mardefeld, Prussian Foreign Ministers, to Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl
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