Autograph letters signed to Lady Mary Powell and her husband Sir Edward Powell, bart., from various correspondents [manuscript], 1630-1633.

46 items.

Arranged chronologically.

The majority of the letters are addressed to Lady Powell at Lady Vanloore's house at Westminster within the Dean's Yard, first by Thomas Crompton, 1630-1631 (1-28), then by Jo. Beale, 1631-1632 (29-34) and again by Crompton, 1632-1633 (35-40). The letters discuss day-to-day matters concerning the running of the estates. There are many agricultural details. Also includes a letter to Lady Powell from a tenant, Foley Berry, Mar. 1 (41); and 5 documents: 2 copies of a document giving the reasons why Lady Powell should be freed from her assessment by the Assessors sitting at Haberdashers' Hall, 1644 (42-43); 2 documents stating how money could be raised for Parliament and the reasons for not selling delinquents' lands (44-45); and a draft of a document petitioning the Archbishop of Canterbury (William Juxon), to let the inhabitants of Strangford in the parish of Fownhope (Founchope), Herefordshire, have a chaplain, ca. 1665? (46). Letters written from Weston Zoyland, Somersetshire, Pengethley in Sellack, Herefordshire, and elsewhere.

Sir Edward Powell was a Master of Requests.

Formerly Folger MS Add 869.

X.c.51 (1, 19): Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Fooles and Fricassees (58, 43)
X.c.51 (21, 35, 39) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 17, 26, 75)

Great Britain -- England.

X.c.51 (1-46)

Adopted anonymously, Acquisitions Night 1985.

MS Add 869