Drue Burton collection of state papers and other materials [manuscript], ca. 1607-ca. 1625.

136 leaves.

Contents include copies of documents taken from Richard Hakluyt's Principal navigations, 1598-1600, and of others relating to Irish affairs from Part II of Fynes Moryson's An itinerary ..., 1617. Also, copies of Sir Ralph Winwood's papers when principal secretary of state, 1614-1617, with a few from an earlier and a later date, as well as many petitions; letters of recommendation; letters to and from envoys and agents in Spain, Savoy, Venice, Turkey, the Netherlands (one of 1617 mentions [Hugo] Grotius), Belgium, France, the county Palatine and Portugal; several letters from the lords-deputy of Ireland, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Tobie Matthew, Sir Thomas Smith, and Sir William Monson; two letters to Sir Walter Raleigh, one about a debt claimed by Peter Frobisher in right of his uncle, Captain Frobisher, and Raleigh's proposal for his last voyage to Guiana, [1616?]; a letter from Dr. Thomas Lodge and another discussing a debt owing to him; a letter and petition of Dr. William Fulke's daughter relating to her right to print his books; a copy of the French king's edict, January 1607, for drawing certain makers of tapestry from the Low Countries into France and Sir Francis Crane's proposal for a similar undertaking in England. Date range found in volume: 1607 on leaf 55v and 1625 on leaf 115v.

Many leaves blank. The copies are arranged in no apparent order; many are of Irish interest. Fragmentary title on spine: [---]anowich & others of Lord Bucleigh [-] . Typescript list of contents tipped in at end.
Signed "Sum D. Burton" on leaf 1 and "D. Burton" on verso of last leaf.
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Transcription made ca. 1830, with corrections by Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1842, cataloged separately as Folger M.b.27.

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B87378

Historical Manuscripts Commission, 4th, p. 372.

Crowcombe Court -- André de Coppet.
Formerly Folger MS Add 34.

Sotheby's July 4-5, 1955, lot 1001.

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 6856

Moryson, Fynes, 1566-1630. Itinerary.
Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.

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G.b.10

MS Add 34