BIB_ID
404226
Accession number
MA 4644.16
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 May 24.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 17.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / in Holborn / England." Holborn and London have been crossed through and replaced with "At Wimbleton."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated May 13 / 24, 1707.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated May 13 / 24, 1707.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Relating their visit to the Hague & Honslardick at the invitation of "Monsieur Smettau Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Prussia...he told me he had the honour to be acquainted with your Grace, who was his chief Commissioner when he went to England to treat of an Allyance between King William & his Master, & that there was no Person in England he had more value for, then yr. Grace...Mr. Smettau (whom they call there Excellency) was so earnest that my young Lords should see Honslardick before they went away, that I could not deny them (that place, which was King Williams best country house, belongs at present to the King of Prussia, and Mons'r Smettau who's director of all the estates belonging to that King in Holland keeps it as well as ever it was)...I thought that the least I could do was to acquaint yr Grace with that Gentlemans great civility, which was the occasion of our staying two days longer at the Hague than we did at first design...There's a report here of Prince Eugene's being entred into Dauphiné & having beaten the french, but I dare not rely upon it. that would make amends for our loss in Spain. Mons'r Smettau says that the treat between the King of Prussia & that of Sweden & Stanislas, whereof I had the honour to write to yr Grace somewhile ago, did never go so far as I was told. I don't know what to think on't, for I had it from good hands. May be they will not the matter to be divulged before King Stanislas is in a condition to perform on his part the conditions of the treaty."
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