British Library Journal (volume 19, number 2, autumn 1993)

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A letter from Cerrāḥ Muṣṭafā Pasha, Vālī of Tunis, to Sir William Trumbull (A.H. 1099/A.D. 1688)
(1993-11)
Heywood, Colin
THIRTY years ago, when I first studied the papers of Sir William Trumbull in the Berkshire County Record Office, it was a particular pleasure to discover that amongst the Downshire Manuscripts which derived from his years as English ambassador at the Porte were a number of Turkish documents. Through the kindness of the County Record Office staff at the time, I was able to obtain photocopies of the documents, and the suggestion was also made that a handlist might be compiled. Unfortunately, the Trumbull manuscripts, both 'old' series and Additional, were only on deposit at Reading, and it was at about this time (the exact date I now disremember) that their then owner placed severely restrictive conditions on their use by historians. Any further photography of the Turkish documents, together with plans for their future publication, was out of the question. The draft handlist and the photocopies already in my possession, together with the other results of my study of Trumbull's embassy to the Porte, were obliged perforce to remain unpublished. More than a quarter of a century elapsed before the sale of the Downshire Manuscripts and their purchase on behalf of the nation at last rendered them fully accessible to disinterested scholarship.
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Sir William Trumbull and the Marquis of Halifax
(1993-11)
Brown, Mark N.
'I burn your letters at your request', wrote George Savile, the first Marquis of Halifax, to Sir William Trumbull on 22 March 1685/6. Indeed, the only letters between them to have survived are six from Halifax, written between 1686 and 1695, which are merely complimentary or deal with matters affecting his Huguenot sister-in-law. For further evidence of their friendship one must turn to manuscript copies of three of Halifax's four political works that circulated in this format before being printed.
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'The honourable sisterhood': Queen Anne's maids of honour
(1993-11)
Harris, Frances
WHEN Sir Charles Sedley asked a new arrival among the maids of honour at the Restoration court whether she intended to set up as 'a Beauty, a Miss [mistress], a Wit or a Politician', he was acknowledging, in his unregenerate way, that these posts could offer considerable scope for a woman. The more famous among those who took advantage of this, including Sedley's own daughter ('none of the most virtuous but a wit'), have figured prominently in studies of court beauties and royal mistresses. But the experience of the majority of obscurer women, for whom the court was a social centre, a means of access to public life, a marriage market, or a source of livelihood, can be equally and more generally illuminating.
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'Party rage and faction' - the view from Fulham, Scotland Yard and the Temple: parliament in the letters of Thomas Bateman and John and Ralph Bridges to Sir William Trumbull, 1710-1714
(1993-11)
Jones, Clyve
NOT until as late as 1909, with the inauguration of the fifth series of Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, did Parliament employ its own staif to produce the daily reports of its proceedings. Before that date the work had been contracted out to various printers, who employed their own staff or shared reporters with The Times. Even earlier, the printer after whom the parliamentary record is named - T. C. Hansard (he bought the publication in 1812 from William Cobbett, who had started it in 1803) - merely collated the record of debates from press reports.
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British foreign policy and international affairs during Sir William Trumbull's career
(1993-11)
Black, Jeremy
SIR William Trumbull served as envoy, and subsequently as Secretary of State, during a period of major change in Britain's international position. He was Ambassador Extraordinary to Louis XIV of France from 2 September 1685 to 12 October 1686, and then Resident Ambassador at Constantinople from November 1686 to October 1691. Although appointed to Constantinople in November 1686, Trumbull did not embark until 16 April 1687 and only arrived on 17 August 1687. He left on 31 July 1691. Trumbull was Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 3 May 1695 until December 1697.
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The Weckherlin Papers
(1993-11)
Forster, Leonard
THE Weckherlin Papers are part of the vast archive of the Trumbull family, which passed through the female line to the Marquesses of Downshire. It was kept at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire until it was deposited on loan with the Berkshire County Record Office at Reading in 1954. A large section of it came on the market at Sotheby's in December 1989 and was acquired en bloc by the British Library.
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The elder William Trumbull: a biographical sketch
(1993-11)
Anderson, Sonia P.
THE papers of William Trumbull the elder (d. 1635) are celebrated among readers of this journal as the most expensive section of the most expensive archive purchased up to that time by the British Library. Their historical value is equally well known. A glance at the catalogue prepared by Peter Beal against the eventuality of their sale in separate lots reveals their extraordinary richness and diversity. Unlike the papers of Sir William Trumbull, they have remained intact and for nearly forty years have been open for public inspection in Reading or London. About half of them have been calendared in the reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. And yet the man behind the papers has remained curiously elusive.
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British Library Journal (volume 19, number 2, autumn 1993)

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