Volume containing transcripts made of the letters of Dukes of Hamilton by William...

CR 2017/C3

Volume containing transcripts made of the letters of Dukes of Hamilton by William Hamper from originals in the possession of the Earl of Denbigh with some introductory extracts and other additions in the hand of Thomas Sharp of Coventry

CR 2017/C3/1A Extracts about the life of James, Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649) from Lives of the Dukes of Hamilton. Note containing an extract from a letter of James I to Charles I his son referring to Hamilton as being "as variable and uncertaine as the moone"; from Harleian MS. No. CR 2017/6987. Written in the hand of Thomas Sharp of Coventry.

1 [? James 2nd Marquis of] Hamilton at Whitehall to the "prence his hynes" [Charles I] 12th April: complimentary. From Harleian MSS. No. CR 2017/1581

2 William [1st Earl of] Denbigh to the Duke of Buckingham, undated, concerning a supposed conspiracy. From the Harleian MSS. No.1581

3 "Exoneration to the Marquis of Hamilton anent the delyvering of the Great Seall", 1641. From the Scottish Public Records, printed in Thurloe's State Papers, Vol. 1, p.13

4 "Orders from the parliament of England to Lieutenent-General Cromwell", 28th Sept. 1648, concerning the Marquis of Hamilton's invasion of England. From the Scottish Public Records, printed in Thurloe's State Papers. Vol. 1, p.105

5 Further extracts about the 3rd Marquis from Thurloe's State Papers, 1634-1648.

The following letters with a few exceptions have been copied from the 2 volumes of Family Letters[Nos. C1 and C2]as follows:

6 C2, No. CR 2017/177

7 C2, No. CR 2017/121

8 C2, No. CR 2017/113

9 C2, No. CR 2017/119

10 C1, No. CR 2017/50

11 C1, No. CR 2017/52

12 C1, No. CR 2017/54

13 C1, No. CR 2017/55

14 C1, No. CR 2017/59

15 C1, No. CR 2017/60

16 C1, No. CR 2017/62

17 C1, No. CR 2017/69

18-23 C1, No. CR 2017/63-68

24-25 C1, No. CR 2017/70-71

26 C1, No. CR 2017/80

27 C1, No. CR 2017/73

28 C72/1

29-31 C1, Nos. CR 2017/82-84

32-34 C1, Nos. CR 2017/86-88

35-36 C1, Nos. CR 2017/90-91

37-39 C1, Nos. CR 2017/74-76

40 C1, No. CR 2017/58

41 C1, No. CR 2017/93

42 C1, No. CR 2017/78

43-47 C1, Nos. 94-99

48 C72/2

49 C112

50 C99

51 C1, No. CR 2017/101

52-57 C1, Nos. CR 2017/103-108

58 C1, No. CR 2017/110

59 C1, No. CR 2017/102

60 Extract from Pennant's Tour in Scotland, Vol. 1. 1772: about Hamilton House and its pictures.

Loose documents found in this volume: Extract about Lord Feilding's bearing a letter to the King from the Queen in 1640: from Clarendon's State Papers vol II, p 119. In Hamper's hand.

: Extract from the Council House Book [? of Coventry] that Lord Denbigh's cook be not admitted to reside in "the Citie" in the hand of Thomas Sharp of Coventry.

: Copy of an original autograph letter of Charles I at Carisbrooke to the Lords and Gentlemen, Committees of the Scots Parliament and the officers of the Scottish Army, 31 July 1648, made by Thomas Sharp in whose possession it was, Nov. 1834.

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