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Correspondence and papers of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt

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MS. Eng. d. 3837

Summary

Comprises:

letters from Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, to:

(fols. 1-2, 49-51) William Henry van Nassau van Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Mar. 1773, Dec. 1775

(fols. 3-4) ? Dillon, Mar. 1773

(fols. 5-6) ? Bagnal, Sept. 1773

(fols. 7-8) Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere, Oct. 1773

(fols. 9-10) James Hewitt, 1st Baron Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, July 1774

(fols. 11-12) ? Clements, Feb. 1775

(fols. 13-14) Francis Burton, Feb. 1775

(fols. 15-16) [Edmond Sexton?] Pery, Mar. 1775

(fols. 17-20) Sir John Blaquiere, June 1775

(fols. 21, 64-6) Henry Flood, July 1775, Feb. 1776

(fols. 22-3) Charles Jenkinson, Aug. 1775

(fols. 26-7) Randal William MacDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, Oct. 1775

(fols. 36-7) unidentified concerning the Irish money bill, Dec. 1775

(fols. 38-41) unidentified concerning the Irish money bill, Dec. 1775

(fols. 53-4, 58-63) General Sir John Irwin, Dec. 1775, Jan.-Feb. 1776

(fols. 55-7) unidentified concerning the Irish money bill, Dec. 1775

(fols. 66-7) Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth, Mar. 1776

(fols. 68-9) Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon, Mar. 1776

(fols. 70-1) Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda, Mar. 1776

(fols. 72-3) Frederick, Lord North, Mar. 1776

(fols. 74-5) William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin, May 1776

(fols. 76-9) John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, Apr.-May 1777

(fols. 80-1) unidentified, Sept. 1777

letters to Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, from:

(fols. 82-3) Robert Walpole, Nov. 1768

(fols. 84-5) Horace St. Paul, Nov. 1772

(fols. 86-143) George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, Aug. 1767, June 1770, June 1772-Feb. 1777

(fols. 144-51) William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, June 1772-Apr. 1774

(fols. 152-4) Charles James Fox, Aug. 1772, n.d.

(fols. 155-6) Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, May 1772

(fols. 157-8) Thomas Villiers, Baron Hyde, Sept. 1772

(fols. 159-60) David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont, July 1772

(fols. 161-2) Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, June 1772

(fols. 163-4) Emilia Fitzgerald, Duchess of Leinster, Sept. 1772

(fols. 165-6) James Fitzgerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, May 1773

(fols. 167-8) William Robert Fitzgerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster, Feb. 1774

(fols. 169-70) unidentified concerning the relocation of the [Dublin?] customs house, n.d.

(fols. 171-2) Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, May 1772

(fols. 173-6) Lionel Smythe, Viscount Strangford, June-Aug. 1772

(fols. 177-8) Edmund Keene, Bishop of Ely, Sept. 1772

(fols. 179-80) Richard Terrick, Bishop of London, May 1772

(fols. 181-6) William Keppel, Aug.-Sept. 1772, Jan. 1773

(fols. 187-8) George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Alblemarle, Apr. 1772

(fols. 189-90) Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, Sept. 1772

(fols. 191-2) Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, Oct. 1772

(fols. 193-4) Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham, Aug. 1772

(fols. 195-8) Wills Hill, 2nd Viscount Hillsborough, Aug. 1772, Nov. 1775

(fols. 199-200) James Hewitt, 1st Baron Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Oct. 1772

(fols. 201-2) Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, Apr. 1772

(fols. 203-6) Francis Seymour Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, May-Aug.1772

(fols. 207-10) Edmond Sexton Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, Aug. 1772, Feb. 1775

(fols. 211-12, 215-16) Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont, Dec. 1772, Feb. 1777

(fols. 217-18) George Macartney, Aug. 1772

(fols. 219-21) Sir Henry Cavendish, Aug.-Sept. 1772

(fols. 222-3) Welbore Ellis, Oct. 1772

(fols. 224-9) Thomas Worsley, Feb. 1771, Aug. 1772

(fols. 232-5) Thomas Barnard, Dean of Derry, Jan.-Dec. 1772

(fols. 236-7) ? Stark [Irish MP?], Oct. 1772

(fols. 238-9) [R.S.A.?] Garvey, Nov. 1772

(fols. 240-5, 247-50) Edward Bellingham Swan, Aug. 1772, Feb. 1777, n.d.

(fols. 251-2) John Swan, Aug. 1772

(fols. 253-4) Edward Le Grand, Jan. 1773

(fols. 256-9) George de la Poer Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Aug. 1772, June 1776

(fols. 260-5) Henry Conyngham, Earl Conyngham of Mount Charles, Aug. 1772

(fols. 266-75) General Robert Cunningham, Aug.-Oct. 1772, July 1774, with (fols. 272-3) an extract from a speech by Cunningham in a debate on the absentee tax for Ireland, Nov. 1773

(fols. 276-83) Thomas Waite, Aug. 1772, Feb.-Apr. 1777

(fols. 284-7) James Bourdieu, Apr. 1772

(fols. 288-9) Robert Morris, May 1772

(fols. 290-1) General George Augustus Eliott, June 1772

(fols. 292-3) [Baron?] Butler of Kilcop, June 1772

(fols. 294-5) B. Glover, July 1772

(fols. 296-7) Captain William Skiffington [or Shiffington?], July 1772

(fols. 298-9) Charles Muller, Oct. 1772

(fols. 300-1) William Hervey, July 1772

(fols. 302-3) Richard Jackson, July 1772

(fols. 304-5) Captain Affleck, Aug. 1772

(fols. 306-9, 312-13) Edward Stratford, Oct. 1772, Jan. 1773, Dec. 1774

(fols. 310-11) Francis Paul Stratford, Mar. 1773

(fols. 314-15) Charles Dillon, Feb. 1773

(fols. 316-19) ? Balfour, Apr. 1773, n.d.

(fols. 320-1) M. St. Leger, Aug. 1773

(fols. 322-3) Sir James Adolphous Oughton, Nov. 1772

(fols. 324-6) Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Apr.-July 1773

(fols. 328-9) William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Oct. 1773

(fols. 328-9) Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Oct. 1773

(fols. 328-8) William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, Oct. 1773

(fols. 328-9) Viscount Milton, Oct. 1773

(fols. 328-9) [Earl of Ossory?], Oct. 1773

(fols. 330-1) Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan, Jan. 1773

(fols. 332-3) John de Courcy, 20th Baron Kingsale, Jan. 1773

(fols. 334-7) Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere, Oct. 1773,

(fols. 338-9) George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere, May 1777

and papers of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, concerning:

(fols. 24-5) minutes of a meeting between Harcourt and Warden Flood concerning Henry Flood's appointment to the vice-treasurership of Ireland, Oct. 1775

(fols. 28-31) the Irish revenues, n.d.

(fols. 32-5) 'some observations on the alterating of the money bills' of Ireland, n.d.

(fols. 42-5) meeting with James Hewitt, 1st Baron Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, concerning Lifford's part in the Irish House of Lords rejection of the casual revenues bill, n.d.

(fol. 46) John Hely-Hutchinson, n.d.

(fols. 47-8) memorial by General Sir John Irwin concerning the exercise of military matters in Ireland and the role of the Lord Lieutenant, Dec. 1775

and letters to Sir John Blaquiere from:

(fols. 213-14) Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont, Dec. 1772

(fols. 230-1) William Tooke, June 1772