Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the years MDCCCLXXVI.-MDCCCLXXXI. / [edited by E.D.L. Scott, G.F. Warner and E. Maunde Thompson].

  • Edward John Long Scott
Date:
1882
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Credit: Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the years MDCCCLXXVI.-MDCCCLXXXI. / [edited by E.D.L. Scott, G.F. Warner and E. Maunde Thompson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS ACQUIRED IN THE YEAR 1 8 7 6. 29,910-29,920. Correspondence and papers of the families of Swynfen of Swynfen, co. Staffrod, and Jervis of co. Stafford, afterwards Earl and Viscounts St. Vincent, allied by the marriage, in 1692, of John Jervis and Mary, daughter and heir of John Swynfen; 1646-1844. Eleven volumes. Paper. Folio and Quarto. Pre- sented by Mrs. Martha Jervis. The contents of the volumes are :— 29.910. Domestic and business letters addressed to John Swynfen of Swynfen, M.P. for Stafford and Tamworth; 1646-1694. On f. 127 is an account of the trial of Sir George Wakeman and others for complicity in the Popish Plot, 1679. Paper; flf. 360. Folio. 29.911. Private correspondence of the family of Jervis, of co. Staf- ford; 1655-1713. At f. 213 is an account of the Turton family. Paper; ff. 239. Folio. 29.912. Private correspondence of the families of Jervis and Swynfen- •Jervis ; 1709-1763. Paper; ff. 178. Folio. 29.913. Letter-book containing copies of official correspondence of Swynfen Jervis, of Meaford, co. Stafford, Barrister-at-law, con- cerning the Jacobite rebels in Staffordshire; 1745-174f. On f. 20 is a “ song on the new raised Eegiments ”; and at the end; “ Description of some of the best horses the king has in his stables.” f. 37 b ;—“ D[uches]s M[arlboroug]hs Character omitted in ‘ Pope’s Satire on Woman ’ thro’ expectation of a Keward.” f. 39;— “Volpone Dissappointed, A chronical Apologue.” f. 40. Paper; ff. 44. Folio. 29,914-29,918. Correspondence of the family of Jervis, consisting chiefly of letters addressed by Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B., Earl of St. Vincent, to his sister Mary, wife of William Henry Ricketts, of Longwood, co. Southampton; and of letters addressed to Mrs., MSS.—1876. B
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