The Manuscripts of J. M. Heathcote, Esq.
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Excerpt from The Manuscripts of J. M. Heathcote, Esq.: Conington Castle The collection reported on in this volume consists almost entirely of the correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshaw, Bart., ambassador from Charles II. to the Courts of Portugal and Spain. The papers mostly belong to the years of his embassies, i.e, 1661-1666, and throw much light upon the relations of England with the Peninsula and especially upon the history of the little English army there, sent out under the Earl of Inchiquin, and afterwards commanded by Count Schonberg. They are rendered additionally valuable by the fact that they form a companion series to the Spanish, Portuguese and Tangier correspondence at the Public Record Office and to Vol. 7,010 of the Harley Mss. at the British Museum. Fanshaw usually kept the drafts of his letters, and there is also an excellent letter-book for the period of the Portugal embassy, so that the collection is much richer in "out" letters than is often the case. This is particularly fortunate, as the letters actually sent are in very many eases missing from the Foreign Office papers. The later part of the collection, relating to the embassy to Spain, is by no means so complete, there being very little purely diplomatic correspondence found in it, but although separated from the other papers, this correspondence is not lost. The letters from January, 1664, to February, 1665, are printed in the volume of "Original Letters of his Excellency Sir Richard Fanshaw" published in 1702, whilst those of a later date are to be found in the Harley volume at the British Museum, mentioned above, having been apparently selected with the idea of forming a second series. The Calendar opens with the instructions given by Charles I. to Fanshaw as his ambassador to Spain [p. 1], signed by the King on October 9th, 1647, just after he had been allowed to gather his Council round him for the last time. There is va pathetic ring about this perhaps one of the last diplomatic acts of the King. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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