Report on the Manuscripts of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, Vol. 1: Of Drayton House, Northamptonshire (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Report on the Manuscripts of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, Vol. 1: Of Drayton House, Northamptonshire

But the papers referring immediately to Lord George form by far the largest and most valuable part of this collection. A large bundle of letters from him to his friend General Sir John Irwin, ranging from 1761 to 1784 (p. Which were sold to the Duke of Dorset by Lady Irwin after her husband's death, allude to all the absorbing topics of the day, and more especially to the gradual rise of the American revolt, culminating in the War of Independence.

The Irish papers are very numerous and important they are in three series (pp. 146 the first from 1781 to 1787, the second from 1750 to 1756, and the third from 1777 to 1788. In the first series several letters from Dean Swift (pp. 149 ct seq.) will be found. Numerous despatches from and to the Primate, Dr. Stone, deal with the topics then agitating in Ireland; the coinage, the King's right to deal with the balance in the Treasury,and other matters referred to by Horace Walpole and other con temporary writers. The third series consists almost entirely of letters from the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 17 77 to 1780, to Lord George Germain, on matters of varied interest connected with the country; but there are in addition some very interesting and racy letters from Dr. Hotham, Bishop of Clogher, as well as others from Sir J. Irwin, Mr. Waite.

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Excerpt from Report on the Manuscripts of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, Vol. 1: Of Drayton House, Northamptonshire

The papers forming this large and important collection are chiefly composed of letters, reports, and other official documents from and to Lord George Sackville, the 3rd son of Lionel, 1st Duke of Dorset.

There are family papers from 1706 to 1799 (p. 32), which contain letters from many persons of eminence, among them being the Electress Sophia of Hanover, Sir Spencer Compton, afterwards Earl of Wilmington, Robert, Ist Earl of Orford, the Earls of Halifax, Sunderland, Chesterfield, and Bristol, George Bubb Dodington, afterwards Lord Melcombe, Horace Walpole, and others, as well as from most of the members of the Sackville family. In other parts of the collection are to be found letters from Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, the Dukes of Cumberland, Gloucester, Marlborough, Newcastle, and Grafton, the Marquess of Hartington, the Earls of Bristol, Temple, Mansfield, Ligonier, Bute, Holderness, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Granville, Chesterfield, Hardwicke, Clanricarde, and Traquair, Lords North, Thurlow, and Sydney, and from Henry Fox, Sir H. Erskine, C. Townshend, William Pitt, Sir Robert Walpole, Dean Swift, Dr. Stone, Archbishop of Armagh, H. Pelham, William Eden, afterwards Lord Auckland, General Wolfe, Sir Jeffrey (afterwards Lord) Amherst, Richard Cumberland the dramatist. Sir Edward Walpole, and many others.

Among the papers not immediately connected with the public and official life of Lord George Sackville, is a very interesting bundle of letters and papers addressed to the Earl of Sunderland (Secretary of State) in 1685 by the Dukes of Somerset and Albemarle, the Earl of Feversham, Lord Lumley, and others, who were the chief actors in the quelling of the Monmouth insurrection (p. 1).

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