Report On The Manuscripts Of The Earl Of Ancaster

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332620920
Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty The collection in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster afiords little material for the smily history earlier than the reign of Elizabeth, the great bulk of the papers consisting of the corre spondence of Peregrine, the stout Lord Willoughby of the Low Countries, son of Richard Bertie and the Duchess Katherine. This correspondence includes original letters from the Queen, Lord Burghley, the Earls of Leicester, Essex, Derby, Sussex and Shrewsbury, Lords Howard of Effingham, Cobham and Audley, Sir Philip Sydney, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Edward Stafford, Sir Francis Vere and Capt. Martin Frobisher; Henry IV. Of France, the Prince of Parma, Count Maurice of Nassau, Count William Louis of Nassau, Counts Hohenlo and Neuwenar. The widowed Princess of Orange, the Spanish commanders Champagny, d'assonnavile and Mondragon, Marechal de Biron, the Vicomte de Turenne and M. Beauvoir la Nocle, French ambassador in England. Many of these are holograph. After the death of Peregrine, Lord Willoughby, in 1601, the number of the papers diminishes very much but those of his son, Robert, first Earl of Lindsey, include originals from Charles I., Sir Robert Cecil, Lord Admiral Nottingham, the Earls of Southampton and Rutland, the Bishops of Durham and Winchester, and Sir edwardvere; and those of Montagu, the second Earl, a holograph of Charles I. And a signed letter of Sir Thomas Fairfax. Of the 18th century, are signed letters of William Pitt, sen., and the Duke of Newcastle, and holographs from Elizabeth, daughter of George III., and her brother, George, Prince of Wales. Also receipts by Sir Joshua Reynolds. If to these we add various signed letters from the Privy Council, it will be seen that the collec tion includes a very large and valuable series of historic autographs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.