The Manuscripts of Sir William Fitzherbert, Bart
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Excerpt from The Manuscripts of Sir William Fitzherbert, Bart: And Others With the exception of the contemporary accounts of the Pretender´s march through Derbyshire, &c., in 1745, which are printed at the end of this report, the documents noticed in it were found at Tissington Hall as a separate collection in three portfolios, among a great quantity of correspondence of much later date. From the fact that the letters contained in these portfolios are all addressed to G. Treby, afterwards Chief Justice, and that the bulk of the other papers in them are connected with the Popish Plot, with which he was also connected as chairman of the Committee of Secrecy and in various official positions, it seems clear that these papers once belonged to him. It is not clear, however, how they came to Tissington. The only hint to be found upon the subject is a note (without name or date, but in the handwriting of Sir W. FitzHerbert who died in 1791) in one of the portfolios that the Mr. Marsh, whose letters and papers were found together with Treby´s Manuscripts, was an attorney of eminence, and of an exceedingly fair character in London, who died about 1765-1770 near 80 years of age; though he could not have been Justice Treby´s clerk on account of the lapse of time, he may have been the clerks son. This would bring down the date of the discovery of the papers to about the time when Sir W. FitzHerbert, grandfather of the present owner, was a barrister in London, and suggests the conclusion that we owe the preservation of this small portion of a once large and valuable collection of historical documents to him. It will be noticed that the papers deal with four distinct subjects. 1. Letters from General Monck; 2. Private correspondence addressed to Mr. Treby; 3. The Popish Plot documents; 4. The Rebellion in 1745. It has seemed therefore that it is better in this report to depart from the usual strict chronological order, and to take the papers according to the subject rather than according to their dates. In the first 20 letters of the third division we have an unusually curious and interesting set of documents, for they are evidently the original letters of the secret correspondence between the Courts of France and England in the latter part of the reign of Charles II. The only cyphers (as a rule) made use of in these letters were certain numbers in the place of names. The body of each letter seems to have been written in an ordinary hand, only with sympathetic ink, probably with lemon juice as is suggested by Coleman himself in a letter of his printed in the State Trials, which having once been brought to light is still legible, though oftentimes faint. Sometimes the whole of a letter has been written in this light brown ink; sometimes the secret writing occurs as a part only of a letter, of which the rest is written in common black ink, upon ordinary harmless topics; sometimes it appears as interlineations throughout a letter written with common black ink. In order to bring out these characteristics as far as possible, these 20 letters have been copied line by line, as in the originals, italics being used to represent the common writing in common black ink, the usual type being used to represent those portions which are written with the sympathetic ink. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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