The Manuscripts of the Duke of Leeds, the Bridgewater Trust, Reading Corporation, the Inner Temple &C (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Manuscripts of the Duke of Leeds, the Bridgewater Trust, Reading Corporation, the Inner Temple &C The manuscripts preserved at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, consist firstly of the papers of Thomas Osborne, created Viscount Dunblaine in 1673, Earl of Danby in 1674, and Duke of Leeds 20 years later. From 1673 to 1679 he held the office of Lord High Treasurer, and he was one of the active promoters of the Revolution of 1688. Amongst his papers, a collection of Tower warrants, in 1660-65, a return of non-conformist meetings in London, and of Roman Catholic priests (with whom are strangely mingled Socinian preachers), and some Scottish letters intercepted in 1688, may be specially noticed. The Tower warrants furnish various particulars about some of the regicides, which possibly are not otherwise known; the inquests on Simon Mayne and Isaac Pennington, the transportation of Sir Henry Vane, Sir Hardress Waller, Colonels Harvey and Lilborne, c.: while of other prominent names we meet with those of Haselrig, Lenthall, Antrim, Argyle, Praise God Barebone, Barkstead, Corbet, Okey, James Harrington, and George Wither. The order in 1663 that Margaret Johnston, the daughter of Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston, should be admitted upon her own petition to live with her father in close confinement, records a touching instance of filial affection. And an isolated warrant of the year 1668 gives us another famous name, in an order for the admission of one Francis Cooke to see his master, William Penn, then in close confinement. A letter from Catherine Green, the mother of that son of Charles II. who at first was known by the name of Don Carlos, and was afterwards created Earl of Plymouth, possesses some interest; as does also a letter of Frampton, the non-juring Bishop of Gloucester. The second portion consists of the papers of Robert D´Arcy, fourth and last Earl of Holdernesse, who was Secretary of State from July 1751 to March 1761, and governor to the sons of King George III. from 1771 to 1776, when he resigned his office (two years before his death) much to the regret of the King, who appears to have held him in the highest regpect and esteem. His papers came, with the Castle in which they are preserved (which still bears on its sculptured doorways the name of William first Lord Conyers, who in the time of Henry VII. enlarged or rebuilt an older structure), into the possession of the Dukes of Leeds by the marriage of the only daughter of the Earl of Holdernesse to Francis, fifth Duke. Amongst them are specially to be noted the papers relating to Scotland, with the anonymous letters of a treacherous Jacobite in France offering, for sufficient remuneration, to furnish information of the agents employed by Prince Charles Edward; and the letters of George Hi. respecting the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. An idea has been prevalent that amongst these papers there would be found some clue to the authorship of the Letters of Junius. The reason for this is not known; but it is an idea which has been entertained for some years. But, unfortunately, after the examination of every box cf family deeds and papers now existing at Hornby Castle, in which there was any chance of the discovery of the "missing link," nothing has been found which bears any reference to the letters or their writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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