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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. Praxis grammatica : in Xenophontis Cyri vitam & disciplinam. / Gulielmus Trumbull, 1653.

Title: Praxis grammatica : in Xenophontis Cyri vitam & disciplinam. / Gulielmus Trumbull, 1653. 1653.

Translation and grammar exercises written by Sir William Trumbull, using Xenophon's Cyropaedia, probably during his years as a student at Oxford.

ArchivalResource: [6], 87, [52] p., bound ; 15 cm.

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Sir William Trumbull: Papers, c. 1588-c. 1700

Title: Sir William Trumbull: Papers c. 1588-c. 1700

ArchivalResource: 5 volumes, 1 envelope

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Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665, 1664-1670

Title: Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665 1664-1670

ArchivalResource: 1 vol. (215 ff.), manuscript.

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Papers removed from Dillon's extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's, Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men, 1690-1956.

Title: Papers removed from Dillon's extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's , Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men 1690-1956.

Drawings, watercolors, engravings, letters, and other documents by various artists andauthors removed from John Dillon's extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. Miscell. excerpta, n.d.

Title: Miscell. excerpta, n.d.

Autograph manuscript, consisting of notes on reading. Accompanied by other memoranda, including notes on the history and topography of certain German cities (23 p.), and notes on a sermon on miracles preached by John Tillotson on 8 June 1672 (9 p.), and extracts from plays (anononymous MS copy, 66 p.).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (38 p.) ; 17 x 12 cm.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. [Legal commonplace book and journal], 1670-1675.

Title: [Legal commonplace book and journal], 1670-1675.

Autograph manuscript: contains reports, partly in the form of questions and answers, cases in the ecclesiastical courts, legal opinions, arguments, precedents, etc. Also Parliamentary business (including a summary of the Bishop of Rochester's speech in the Lords on 8 March 1672/3, and quoting remarks by Izaak Walton (1593-1683), and a story by Sir Henry Marten (1562?-1641). The manuscript illustrates Trumbull's work as an advocate in the ecclesiastical courts and as chancellor of the diocese of Rochester.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (110 p.) ; 13 x 7 cm.

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Joseph Spence papers, 1649-1859, 1739-1768

Title: Joseph Spence papers 1649-1859 1739-1768

The papers include correspondence, personal papers, notes and memoranda, and related papers. Much of the material concerns Spence's Anecdotes, including manuscripts of his notes on conversations with Alexander Pope, memoranda on Stephen Duck and other authors, and notes on Spence's reading. There are also extensive notes on English gardens, shorter writings by Spence, and drafts of works which appeared in his Moralities (1753, under the pseudonym of Sir Harry Beaumont). The correspondence principally concerns personal and business matters, including the settlement of Spence's estate. Series VIII, Derby Anecdotes (Oversize) contains a large paper extra-illustrated set of the Anecdotes (1820) with autograph documents bound in,including autographs of Eustace Budgell, Colley Cibber, William Congreve, George II, Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, David Mallet, Alexander Pope, Sir William Trumbull, and Joseph Warton.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 10; Other Storage Formats: Oversize; Linear Feet: 7.75

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. [Letterbook], [1650-1653].

Title: [Letterbook], [1650-1653].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing copies of correspondence in Latin with various friends and members of Trumbull's family. The first part of this volume contains a schoolboy exchange of letters between William and Rodolf Trumbull on one side and Thomas Terreaus and Robert White on the other. The letters in the second part are between Trumbull and various members of his family, including George Rodolph Weckerlin, his maternal grandfather. Contents also include two poems, one a Latin epithalamium and the other some funeral verses in English.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (47 p.) ; 19 x 16 cm.

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Cressett, James, 1655?-1710. [Letterbooks], 1693-1703.

Title: [Letterbooks], 1693-1703.

Manuscript letterbooks in several secretarial hands containing copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence, official documents, and diplomatic papers associated with James Cressett, Envoy Extraordinary to the courts of Brunswick and Celle (Lunenberg) from 1693 to 1703. Volumes 1 and 2 contain copies of outgoing letters from Cressett to members of the British government, including Secretaries of State Sir John Trenchard, James Vernon, Sir Charles Hedges, and Sir William Trumbull and Secretary of War Sir William Blathwayt. Other correspondents include the Dukes of Marlborough and Shrewsbury and the Earls of Albemarle and Portland. Volume 3 contains copies of official letters received by Cressett from various officers at Whitehall, particularly Vernon, Blathwayt, and Hedges. Volume 4 contains copies of official diplomatic correspondence between King William and other heads of state in Latin, French, and German; copies of negotiating memoranda, background papers, and drafts of proposed treaty articles; and other diplomatic papers. The major topic of the correspondence is the protracted and multinational negotiations that resulted both in several treaties among various European powers and in the War of the Spanish Succession. Cressett requests instructions and sends summaries of negotiating sessions, current rumors, information from spies and agents, and proposals for future English positions in the talks. Cressett sends much news of events in the royal house of Hanover, including the imprisonment of Georg Ludwig's wife Sophia Dorothea. The letterbooks trace the eventual emergence of Georg Ludwig as the future heir to the English throne as well. Other topics include the various discussions concerning the succession to the Spanish throne, the alliances formed against France, and the first campaigns of the war.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. The treatie for settling the succession of ye crown of Spain, 1700 Dec [Oct?] 27, 1700 Dec [Oct?] 27.

Title: The treatie for settling the succession of ye crown of Spain, 1700 Dec [Oct?] 27, 1700 Dec [Oct?] 27.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (2 p.) ; 22 x 17 cm.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665.

Title: Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665. 1664-1670.

The main body of the text is a diary in English of Sir William Trumbull's travels from Gravesend on 14 March 1664 through Italy to Rome and then through France as far as Avignon on the return journey on 2 May 1665, where it breaks off. From the reverse end the volume appears to have subsequently been used as a notebook, written in Latin, French, and English on miscellaneous subjects.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (215 ff.), manuscript.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716,. Autograph letters from Sir William Trumbull to various recipients [manuscript], 1696 May-1697 July.

Title: Autograph letters from Sir William Trumbull to various recipients [manuscript], 1696 May-1697 July.

The letters were written while Trumbull was secretary of state for the northern department and secretary to the 7 lords justices in the King's absence and include copies of several of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which Trumbull was governor. Recipients: Admiral Russell, the Lords of the Admiralty, the Earl of Romney, the Earl of Portland, the Lords Justices, Vice Admiral John Nevell, the Lords Justices of Ireland, Rear Admiral Meese, Admiral Rooke and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (30 leaves)

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Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. Receipt for his pension (incomplete) signed : Whitehall, 1696 June 18.

Title: Receipt for his pension (incomplete) signed : Whitehall, 1696 June 18.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1700-1712].

Title: [Commonplace book], [ca. 1700-1712].

Manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of maxims and extracted quotations from other texts, on political, philosophical, moral, and social subjects, and arranged topically. The headings are arranged alphabetically in each volume. The first volume includes such subjects as books; court and courtiers; death; fate; heat; king and kingdoms; obstinacy; retirement; solitude; scripture; and wit. Subjects in the second volume include applause; compassion; excommunication; fancy; ingratitude; matrimony; minister; negligence; raillery; and villainy. The entries in the second volume are composed primarily of maxims and precepts, and do not include quotations from other texts.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 33 x 21 cm.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. Letter : Whitehall [London, Eng.], to [William] Blathwayte [i.e. Blathwayt], 1697 Aug. 6.

Title: Letter : Whitehall [London, Eng.], to [William] Blathwayte [i.e. Blathwayt], 1697 Aug. 6.

Holograph signed, relating to the visit of the Czar of Muscovy (Peter I, subsequently styled Emperor of all the Russias) to the Netherlands and to concurrent attempt to obtain commercial advantages in Great Britain's tobacco trade with Russia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 22 cm.

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Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of, 1641-1711,. Copies of letters from Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, to Sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of state for the northern department, December 1677-May 1678 [manuscript], ca. 1700.

Title: Copies of letters from Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, to Sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of state for the northern department, December 1677-May 1678 [manuscript], ca. 1700.

From The Hague and elsewhere. Written while joint ambassador to the congress of Nimeguen and envoy to The Hague. Also, several letters to Williamson from Sidney Godolphin while in the Low Countries, 1678, and a group of letters at the end from Sunderland [secretary of state for the northern department] to Sir Leoline Jenkins, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Peace at Nimeguen, March 25-July 22, 1679.

ArchivalResource: 288 p.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. [Commonplace book], [1654-ca. 1698].

Title: [Commonplace book], [1654-ca. 1698].

Autograph manuscript, containing notes and verses from classical writers, legal notes arranged alphabetically, and an autobiographical "Essay of a Happy Life." The earlier part of this manuscript was written while studying for his matriculation at Oxford. Written in retirement, Trumbull's "Essay of a Happy Life" is a critical assessment of himself as an office-holder and a statement of his spiritual resolutions.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 280 p.) ; 20 x 15 cm.

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Trumbull, William, Sir, 1639-1716. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1682 and later].

Title: [Commonplace book], [ca. 1682 and later].

Autograph manuscript, containing meditations on the Psalms, Trumbull's own metrical versions of certain Psalms, notes from reading and notes on the life and government of Venice. Prefaced by an introduction which is partly autobiographical.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 140 p.) ; 19 x 14 cm.

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