St John‘s College Personal Collections

Miscellaneous/Box 5/CE0
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1603

Autograph letter signed Ro: Cecyll to the Lord High Treasurer Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), requesting Sackville to give 200 pounds to Cecil's steward Roger Houghton for immediate payment to the Scottish noblewoman Lady Barbara Ruthven (d. 1625), whose two brothers had been killed in an alleged plot against King James three years earlier. Postscript in darker ink written by Roger Houghton.

Cecil, Robert (1563-1612) 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman

A.L.s. from Lord William Howard of Naworth to Thomas Dudley

Miscellaneous/Box 10/HO7
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10 January 1616

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Asks for a case of his tenant to be tried at Dudley's sessions to be looked at kindly.

Howard, Lord William (1563-1640) antiquary and landowner

A.L.s., from Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, to Sir Thomas Fairfax

Miscellaneous/Box 16/SH3
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15 November 1623

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Hopes that TF will recover from his illness, is unsure about her future, gives a description of a fire and of the finery of the Spanish ambassador.

Talbot, Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury (1556–1632)

A.L.s. from Thomas Fairfax to his grandfather, 1st Baron.

Miscellaneous/Box 7/FA2
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24 July 1637

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Has recovered from an illness and discusses a visit. Notes the imprisonment of John Williams, the Bishop of Lincoln, and an emotional speech given to his servants.

Fairfax, Thomas (1612-1671) 3rd Baron Fairfax, general

Copy of letter from Thomas Wentworth to 'Dr Beale the Provost and the other Fellows of St John's College' (In the hand of Thomas Baker)

Miscellaneous/Box 18/WE2
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8 February 1639

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Gives thanks to SJC and offers his services.

Wentworth, Thomas (1593-1641) 1st Earl of Strafford, statesman

A.L.s., in French, to Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France

Miscellaneous/Box 9/HE5/1
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21 September 1646

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Appeals on behalf of a Mr Haesdone in Paris who has been arrested at the suit of certain French merchants.

Manuscript notebook entitled 'Animadversiones eruditi Itali ad Joannis Frederici Gronovii Observata in Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis'

Mayor/A/A9
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1650–1670 (Circa)

Part of Notebooks of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

Pencil note inside front cover 'Gronovius (J.F.) autograph MSS. Puttick & Simpson 18/7/73'.

Gronovius, Joannes Fredericus (1611-1671) classicist, librarian and critic

Copy of J.C. Adams's copy of 2 small notebooks of Newton's

Adams/Box 39/19/1
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1659-1669

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Holograph letter, signed, to Magdalene Eugenie a Chaliot [=Chaillot, probably Ste Genevieve de Chaillot, a religious community of the Order of St Augustine, founded 1638]

Miscellaneous/Box 9/HE5/2
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12 January 1665

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Expresses regret and condolence on the death of the Reverend Mother Superior of Chaliot.

Transcripts of correspondence with Robert Hooke and Edmund Halley

Adams/Box 27/6
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5 Mar. 1677-27 May 1686

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Hooke to Newton 24 Dec. 1677; N to H 5 Mar. 1677; 18 Dec. 1677; 28 Nov. 1679; N to Halley 27 May 1686; H to N 17 Jun. 1679; H's Statement of state of controversy between them. Presumably copied for the Newton MSS Syndicate.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

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