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Letters to Cloudesley Shovell and material related

Title: Letters to Cloudesley Shovell and material related

ArchivalResource: 3 items

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Shovell, Clowdisley, 1650-1707. Disposition of the Forces on board Sir Cloud: Shovells Squadron : contemporary copy not autograph, [170?].

Title: Disposition of the Forces on board Sir Cloud: Shovells Squadron : contemporary copy not autograph, [170?].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Shovell, Clowdisley, Sir, 1650-1707. Papers of Sir Clowdisley Shovell, 1673-1792 (bulk 1690-1704).

Title: Papers of Sir Clowdisley Shovell, 1673-1792 (bulk 1690-1704).

The collection consists of letters and documents containing instructions from the Admiralty to Shovell when he commanded the Channel Fleet in 1696, reports by Rooke of his perparations for the expedition to Cadiz, and miscellaneous routine naval business.

ArchivalResource: 88 pieces.2 boxes.

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Letters to Cloudesley Shovell and material related

Title: Letters to Cloudesley Shovell and material related

ArchivalResource: 3 items

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Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

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Manchester papers, 1697-1737

Title: Manchester papers 1697-1737

The papers contain correspondence, copies of treaties, speeches and credentials, orders, memoranda, reports, newsletters and other papers mostly relating to diplomatic, political and military affairs in western Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession. In addition to documenting Manchester's missions to the republic of Venice and the court of France, the papers provide much detail on shifting relations among the northern powers, the break between France and England following the former's recognition of James III, English concern over Jacobite activities on the Continent, and negotiations with the Low Countries and Savoy. Major correspondents writing from England on politics and diplomacy include the Earls of Albemarle, Jersey, Shrewsbury and Sunderland, and secretaries James Vernon, Robert Yard, Joseph Addison and Matthew Prior. Other correspondents include the Duke of Marlborough and J. Chetwynd, writing on military matters, and Sir P. Medows, William Blathwayt, James Cresset, Francis Schonenberg, Abraham Stanyan and Alexander Stanhope, addressing affairs in various countries. Manchester's letters to Blathwayt, located in Series II, describe life at the French court and events leading up to the French violation of the Treaty of Ryswick.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 1; Other Storage Formats: 17 volumes; Linear Feet: 3.5

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Parker Family. Newsletters, 1635-1693.

Title: Newsletters, 1635-1693.

This small collection consists chiefly ot newsletters to various members of the Parker family, many from a - - - More, including news from Europe (Vienna, Augsburg, Berlin, c. 1635), from London including information about Parliament, William Prynne, subsidies, Strafford's attainder (with a list of those who voted against it in the Commons in 1641), Quakers, a London robbery, Sir Clowdisley Shovell, King William's War, and the Messina earthquake of 1693. also included is the key to an alphabetic code sent to Sir Gilbert Houghton.

ArchivalResource: 13 letters.

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