Lists of various English State Papers, 18th century
The papers consist of the following:
- (p. 1) I. Index of papers and MSS. of Sir Leoline Jenkins, one of the commissioners for burying the Queen-mother in 1669, ambassador at Cologne in 1673, at Nimeguen in 1676–9, secretary of state for the northern province in 1680, and for the southern in 1681–4; at the end, notes of papers relative to ambassadors offending, and to violation of their rights.
- (pp. 19-130, 137) II. Classified lists of papers in the State Paper Office.
- (p. 19) II.1. List of miscellaneous admiralty and civil papers, almost entirely of the seventeenth century.
- (p. 42) II.2. List of admiralty and marine papers; 1537–1683.
- (p. 51) II.3. Foreign trade, plantations, discoveries, etc., 1538–1698.
- (p. 64) II.4. Fishing, Greenland, etc.; 1609–1690.
- (p. 66) II.5. Consuls and consulage; 1589–1670.
- (p. 67) II.6. Trade or commerce, domestic; 1566–1638.
- (p. 69) II.7. Ambassadors; 1543–1676.
- (p. 75) II.8. Contests for precedence among ambassadors and others; 1554–1640.
- (p. 82) II.9. Ceremonies and titles; 1605–1677.
- (p. 88) II.10. Pretensions of princes, government, succession, etc.; 1540–1677.
- (p. 97) II.11. Matters ecclesiastical; 1512–1679.
- (p. 108) II.12. Universities, colleges, hospitals, schools, vicarages, fees, and offices, together with matters particularly belonging to the archbishop, dean, and chapter of Canterbury; 1559–1660.
- (p. 116) II.13. Nobility and heraldry; 1545–1603.
- (p. 117) II.14. Fugitives, or criminals fled into foreign countries; 1554–1676.
- (p. 120) II.15. Criminal matters, as treasons, felonies, libels, etc.; 1571–1677.
- (p. 124) II.16. Affairs military; 1588–1677.
- (p. 125) II.17. Affairs civil and ecclesiastical of the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Man, and Wight; 1587–1678.
- (p. 128) II.18. Affairs parliamentary and prerogative royal; 1614–1677.
- (p. 130) II.19. London, Tower of London, and Custom House; 1571–1677.
- (p. 137) II.20. Treaties; 1340–1676, with papers relating to the Triple Alliance in 1668.
- (p. 132) III. "A list of such persons as have been employed by the Kings and Queens of England to negotiate (either as ambassadors, envoys, residents, commissioners, or agents) in forraign kingdoms and states"; 1521-1650.
Dates
- Creation: 18th century
Extent
77 leaves, besides others blank
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 814
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 814.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 13582.
Custodial History
"Ld. Hallifax’s MSS., numb. 181".
Physical Facet
On paper, in folio
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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