Letters from Henry Boyle to Charles, Viscount Townshend, concerning peace negotiations during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Letters from Henry Boyle to Charles, Viscount Townshend
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. d. 147-8
- Dates of Creation1709-10
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description2 shelfmarks
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Administrative / Biographical History
Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton (d 1725), politician, was principal Secretary of State. Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674-1738), statesman, was ambassador extraordinary at The Hague. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Acquisition Information
The letters were bought from Colbeck Radford in 1934.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 40104-5.