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Title

Correspondence of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. d. 3840

Summary

Comprising letters from:

(fols. 1-4) Nathaniel Clements, Sept. 1774, Feb. 1777

(fols. 5-22) Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon, Sept. 1773-Feb. 1777

(fols. 25-6) Wills Hill, 2nd Viscount Hillsborough, Oct. 1774

(fols. 27-32) Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh, Feb.-July 1774, May 1776

(fols. 33-4, 47-9) John Robinson, Feb. 1775, Oct. 1776

(fols. 52-9) John Hely-Hutchinson, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Aug. 1775, June-Aug. 1777, n.d.

(fols. 60-1) Richard Rigby, Jan. 1775

(fols. 62-3) [Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely? or Edmund Keene, Bishop of Ely?], Feb. 1775

(fols. 64-5) Henry Hamilton, Mar. 1775

(fols. 66-7) John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde, Sept. 1775

(fols. 68-9) Colonel [J.?] Paterson, Mar. 1775

(fols. 74-95) General Sir John Irwin, Apr. 1775-June 1776

(fols. 96-105) Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth, Mar.-June 1776

(fols. 106-7) Ely Dagworthy, Oct. 1774

(fols. 108-23) Henry Flood, July 1774-Oct. 1776

(fols. 124-5) John Gore, Baron Annaly of Tenelick, July 1775

(fols. 126-9) [William Foster], Bishop of Kilmore, Oct. 1776, Jan. 1777

(fols. 130-53) [Colonel?] E. Smith, Jan.-Dec. 1776

(fols. 154-70) John Scott, Oct. 1776-June 1777

(fols. 174-5) William Maxwell, Dec. 1776

(fols. 176-7) Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, May 1776

(fols. 178-9) [John?] Beresford, Nov. 1776

(fols. 180-1) [ Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford], Oct. 1776

(fols. 182-9) John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, Nov. 1776-June 1777

(fols. 192-209) William Burton, Dec. 1776-Jan. 1777

(fols. 210-15) Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough, Jan.-Feb. 1777

(fols. 216-17) [ Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci of Abbey Leix?], Mar. 1777

(fols. 218-19) [Michael?] Cromie, Mar. 1777

(fols. 220-1) B. Balfour, Feb. 1777

(fols. 222-3) Francis Buchanan, Feb. 1777

(fols. 224-5) ? Vesey, Feb. 1777

(fols. 226-7) John Butler, Mar. 1777

(fols. 228-31) [General John Pomeroy?], Mar. 1777

(fol. 232) R. Ward, May 1777

(fols. 233-4) [Major?] Kingston

(fols. 235-6) Colonel J. Paterson, July 1777

(fols. 237-40) Robert Ross, July-Sept. 1777

(fols. 241-2) Sir Boyle Roche, Sept. 1777

(fols. 243-6) Sir James Adolphous Oughton, June-Aug. 1777

(fols. 247-8) W. Brownlow, Feb.-Apr. 1777

(fols. 251-5) General James Johnston, Mar.-May. 1777

(fols. 256-324) John Lees, Apr. 1775, Apr.-Sept. 1777

with letters to Sir John Blaquiere from:

(fols. 35-46) John Robinson, Oct. 1775-Feb. 1776

(fols. 50-1) John Hely-Hutchinson, Aug. 1774

(fol. 173) William Henry van Nassau van Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Sept. 1776

(fols. 190-1) William Burton, n.d.

and:

(fols. 23-4) copy of a letter from James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil, to William Henry van Nassau van Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, complaining of Harcourt's Irish administration, June 1774

(fols. 70-3) copies of letters concerning a promotion to the [Irish?] bench for Counsellor Maunsell, Dec. 1775-Dec. 1776

(fols. 171-2) letter from John Ponsonby to General John Pomeroy concerning Harcourt's appointment of Pomeroy to the Irish Privy Council, Nov. 1776

(fols. 249-50) letter from W. Brownlow to William Burton, Apr. 1777