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Papers of the Goodricke family of Ribston Hall, Nidderdale, Yorkshire
Collection
Identifier: G66753
Abstract
Contains 28 letters and 11 documents relating to the careers of Sir John Goodricke, his son Sir Henry Goodricke and their family, spanning the reigns of Charles I through the ascension of William & Mary.
Dates:
1639?-1689
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Letters from Mary Hatton Helsby to various recipients
Collection
Identifier: H38445
Abstract
The Letters of Mary Hatton Helsby consists of ten letters, 1651-1668 and thirteen newspaper clippings reproducing Hatton Helsby's correspondence, ca. 1900. The collection includes letters from both sides of the courtship between Mary Hatton Helsby and her eventual husband, Randolph Helsby, several containing commentary critical of both Royalist and Parliamentary factions.
Dates:
1651-1668
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the More family of Loseley Park, Surrey
Collection
Identifier: M67567
Abstract
Consists of papers collected by the More family of Loseley Park, Surrey, dealing largely with: the Offices of the Tents and of the Revels under Sir Thomas Cawarden (d.1559); property in Blackfriars, London, owned by Cawarden and later by his executor, Sir William More (1520-1600); and the activities, personal and governmental, of Cawarden, Sir William, and Sir George More (1553-1632). Also includes 14 autograph letters signed from John Donne (1573-1631), as well as the official and personal...
Dates:
1489 - 1682; Majority of material found within 1538 - 1630
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Collection of political and parliamentary documents
Collection
Identifier: P65737
Abstract
Compiled by several people, this collection of political and parliamentary documents contains speeches; letters and petitions (including to Elizabeth I, Queen of England and James I, King of England); reports of famous trials; notes on the history of England (covering from the time of William the Conqueror through the Commonwealth), France (particularly the Huguenots and the death of Henry I, Duke of Guise), and Spain (including the West Indies and Central America); Anglo relations with the...
Dates:
compiled circa 1550-circa 1650
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Letters from the Privy Council
Collection
Identifier: P75894
Abstract
Privy Council letters mainly concerning troops and provisions for English garrisons in Ireland.
Dates:
1545-1621
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of Richard Smith
Collection
Identifier: S65753
Abstract
Contains fair copies, drafts, and notes in the hand of Richard Smith. Consists of writings and notes on the Bishops and Archibishops of England, Christ's descent into hell, a collection of short essays on religious and secular topics, rites and ceremonies of the church (presumably the Church of England), and indulgences.
Dates:
1633-1670
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Manuscripts of the Strozzi family
Collection
Identifier: S77699
Abstract
Collection of 17th and 18th century transcripts made for the Strozzi family of Florence of political and religious material, relating to papal diplomacy, etc., of documents dating from the 14th century through the 17th century, with the bulk dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A note in volume 1 states that the manuscripts came from Rome, from the archives of the Strozzi house, and indicates that the series is incomplete, as may be seen from the lower series of numbers on the spines of...
Dates:
17th and 18th century
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
E. Williams watermark collection, including the papers of the Hale family of King's Walden and other papers
Collection
Identifier: W55553
Abstract
A collection of paper from sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed books, broadsides, and pamphlets, gathered and arranged according to watermark type by E. Williams of Hove, Sussex, in the early twentieth century. Many of the manuscripts relate to the legal, financial, and manorial affairs of the Hale family of King's Walden, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1570-1699
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
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