Opis: Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1877, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Manuscripts Great Britain; Royal Commis

Excerpt from Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1877, Vol. 1

In Ireland. - The Marquis of Ormonde.

Among the collections of which the examination is still in progress may be named those of the Duke of Manchester, the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Egmont, and Mr. G. H. Finch, M.P. Other noblemen and gentlemen have expressed their willingness to submit their muniments to Your Commissioners' inspection.

We append a brief account of some of the chief collections examined since the issue of our last Report; full particulars of these will he found in the Appendix.

The Home of Lords. - The calendar of the manuscripts in the House of Lords has been carried up to the end of the year 1647, in the Appendix to the present. Report, and Mr. Monro and Mr. Thoms report to Your Commissioners that, in addition to the portion printed, they have completed the calendar up to the time of the Restoration, and that all papers up to the year 1800 have now been dated and arranged.

Amongst other papers of an earlier date than those in the present calendar, which have been quite recently discovered, must especially be mentioned a manuscript journal of the proceedings in the House of Commons from the 21st of June to the 5th of July 1625. This document is especially interesting as it fills up a hiatus in the journals of the House of Commons. In the printed journal, after the 22nd of June 1625, is this note: "Here is a blank in the journal, left prebably for the entry of the "proceedings of the House in the interval betwixt the 22nd of June and the 4th of "July." The discovery of such a document as this shows the importance of continuing the sorting and arrangement of the papers until all have been brought into their proper places.

Mr. Monro and Mr. Thoms Lave called the attention of Your Commissioner to many interesting papers in the portion of the calendar now printed. The papers taken in the King's cabinet at the battle of Naseby were fully described in the First Report of this Commission. A complete list, of the papers is given at page 219; some of them have been discovered since the date of the First Report, and those not previously printed arc now printed in extenso.

This remarkable series of papers is still unfortunately incomplete, but it is quite possible that some of the papers may have been separated from the rest in the lapse of upwards of two hundred and thirty years, and may have been calendared under their respective dates. The King's instructions to Richard Harding (6 Aug. 1644), printed at p. 21, embodying proposals from His Majesty to the Earl of Essex, is not improbably one of the Naseby papers. It is folded in the same manner as many of the King's letters, and does not appear to have been sent by Essex to the Parliament; it may therefore be inferred that it was returned by Harding to the King, to be preserved by him, only to fall at last into the hands of his opponents.

There arc many letters and other papers relating to incidents connected with the civil war deserving special notice. Amongst these may be mentioned a letter from the Earl of Essex to both Houses of Parliament (3 Sept. 1614), written after his escape to Plymouth, when the army under his command had laid down their arms, an event which he describes as "the greatest blow and weakening to the Parlyam forces "that has bine since the warres beganne," the "sad relation" of which he chooses rather to send by Colonel Pyndar than in writing.

A long and very interesting letter from Secretary Nicholas at Oxford to Colonel Ashburnham at Weymouth (22 May 1644), contains much news of the proceedings of the armies in the south of England, and of other current events.

A copy of a letter from Oliver Cromwell to the Committee of both Kingdoms (28 April 1645), gives an account of a skirmish near Brampton Rush and the subsequent storming of the house in which the defea

Szczegóły: Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1877, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Manuscripts Great Britain; Royal Commis

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