BIB_ID
404237
Accession number
MA 4644.56
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 June 5.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 17.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at his house at Wimbleton / England." The original address was given as "at his house in Holborn": the words "in Holborn" have been crossed out, along with "London", at the bottom of the address.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated May 25 / June 5, 1708.
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 25 / June 5, 1708.
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
Reporting that the British army is in Flanders and possibly on the verge of engaging with the French; writing that some people think "we shall not venture a batle [sic] till the two armies on the Rhine & on the Mosell are in a Condition to act together & to Concert their operations"; adding that this may be soon, since the Elector of Brunswick (George I) is already at the Rhine and Prince Eugene is expected shortly in Koblenz: "his Army will be of 25000 Men & that of the Elector of 30000"; informing the Duke that the unrest in Hamburg (see MA 4644.54) has been resolved: "the town has received at last 2300, viz 2000 foot & 300 horses, of the troops which did block it up which will secure the Magistrate & enable them to punish the Authors of the tumults"; speculating that if Charles VI were in "as good a condition in Spain, there would be hopes, not only to hinder the french from doing any Considerable Matter, but to get some advantage over them"; ascribing their successes so far to God: "yet as your Grace, has very well observed, all the advantages we have got since the revolution, Carry with them visible tokens of Gods hand in them, so that ther's hardly any thing to be ascribed to the General's headpiece. Would to God we may continue to conquer so"; mentioning that he hopes that the chocolate (see MA 4644.55) will have reached the duke by now.
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