Description | Copied from the originals in "the library of Sir Thomas Phillips Bart. at Middle Hill" sometime in the 19th century.
Almost all of the letters are addressed to William Blathwayt and are from the 4th Earl of Manchester or the Earl's secretary Abraham Stanyan. Efforts may already have been made to redact the contents of the letters by the time they were transcribed as there are several places marked with notes with "lines destroyed".
Each letter is numbered: 1. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (7 Aug N.S. 1699) 2. The Earl to unknown, Paris (17 Aug 1699) 3. The Earl to unknown, Paris (14/24 Aug 1699) 4. The Earl to unknown, Paris (28 Aug 1699) 5. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (31 Aug 1699) 6. Mr. de Torsi to Mr. Blathwayt, Versailles (2 Sep 1699) 7. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (11/21 Sep 1699) 8. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (14/25 Sep 1699) 9. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (5 Oct 1699) 10. The Earl to unknown, Paris (2/12 Oct 1699) 11. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (24 Jul 1699) 12. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (7 Aug 1699) 13. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (10 Aug 1699) 14. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (14 Aug 1699) 15. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (24 Aug 1699) 16. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (4 Sep 1699) 17. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (6 Sep 1699) 18. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (11 Sep 1699) 19. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (14 Sep 1699) 20. Abraham Stanyan to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (18 Sep 1699) 21. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (8 Jul 1700) 22. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (15 Jul 1700) 23. Titled: "Copie de la lettre que S.A.M. le Prince Eugene a ecrit au public de la ville de Ferrare, pour repondre a la Mission, que la meme public il ya fait du Mar. Alfonse Bevilacqua" 24.The Earl to the Earl of Jersey (17 Jul 1700) 25. The Earl to unknonw, Paris (18 Jul 1700) 26. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (19 Jul 1700) 27. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (23 Jul 1700) 28. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (25 Jul 1701) 29. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (26 Jul 1700) 30. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (27 Jul 1700) 31. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (29 Jul 1700) 32. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (30 Jul 1700) 33. The Earl to unknown, Paris (1 Aug 1701) 34. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (5 Aug 1701) 35. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (6 Aug 1700) 36. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (8 Aug 1701) 37. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (9 Aug 1700) 38. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (12 Aug 1700) 39. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (13 Aug 1700) 40. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (15 Aug 1700) 41.The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (15 Aug 1701) 42. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (19 Aug 1701) 43. The Earl to unknown, Paris (20 Aug 1700) 44. Mr. Griffith to the Earl, Windsor (22 Aug 1700) 45. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (22 Aug 1701) 46. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (26 Aug 1701) 47. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (27 Aug 1700) 48. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (29 Aug 1701) 49. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (2 Sep 1701) 50. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (5 Sep 1701) 51. The Earl to Mr. Griffith, Paris (8 Sep 1700) 52. The Earl to unknown, Paris (9 Sep 1701) 53. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (10 Sep 1700) 54. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (12 Sep 1701) 55. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (16 Sep 1701) 56. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (17 Sep 1700) 57. The Earl to unknown, Paris (19 Sep 1701) 58. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (25 Sep 1700) 59. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (27 Sep 1700) 60. Extract from the Earl to the King, Paris (4 Oct 1700) 61. The Earl to Mr. Stanhope [Stanyan?], Fontainebleau (7 Oct) 62. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Paris (11 Oct 1700) 63. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Fontainebleau (16 Oct 1700) 64. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Fontainebleau (17 Oct 1700) 65. The Earl to Mr. Blathwayt, Fontainebleau (21 Oct 1700)
Followed by six pages in the same hand, headed "Exchequer Records" and containing an account of a debate in the House of Lords about the destruction of records of these records in 1838. Refers to state papers being sold by a bookseller to the British Museum. |