The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, Preserved At Welbeck Abbey ..

Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. At head of title: Historical manuscripts commission Vols. 1-8: Parliament. Papers by command. C. 6474, 6827-I, 7569, 8497, 9466; Cd. 676, 783, 3475 Vols. 1-4 issued as Great Britain. Historical manuscripts commission. Report. 13th, appendix, pt. 1-2; 14th, appendix, pt. 2; 15th, appendix, pt. 4 Vols. 5- have title: ... Report on the manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland .. Reports, including many extracts, prepared by J. J. Cartwright, R. Ward and others Vol. 1 is a calendar of twenty-two volumes of the collection of state papers, 1628-1660, formed by Dr. John Nalson, canon of Ely; v.3-10 are calendars of the Harley manuscripts, mainly private and official papers and letters of Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford; v. 7 is a calendar of the letters written from 1710 to 1729 to Edward Harley, 2d earl of Oxford, by Dr. William Stratford, canon of Christ's Church, Oxf