Newsletters, 1635-1693.

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Newsletters, 1635-1693.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776936725

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.

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Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Parker Family

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Prynne, William, 1600-1669

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Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, earl of, 1593-1641

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