BIB_ID
404243
Accession number
MA 4644.57
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 17.8 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 June 1 / 12, 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 June 1 / 12, 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
Referring to a letter from the Duke which contained orders about span water and black geldings; telling him that he has written to the Hague about the former, "where Span water is at all times to be found, to one that uses it yearly, & has always good store of it. It is sold in Earthen botles [sic], & as our Doctor has Informed me, about 12 pens a botle"; writing that he will secure some and a "Mr. Bertie Cock" will make sure it reaches the Duke safely; referring to the geldings, telling him that he has spoken to "the best Horse Courser of all these Countries" who has informed him that there are many coach horses available at the moment and quoted him prices for horses of different heights; writing that he awaits further orders from the Duke and is ready to "pick out a Set of the finest midle Sized Black geldings that can be found"; discussing the process and cost of bringing the horses back to England; sending news of the conflicts underway; mentioning that the Duke of Orleans has received far fewer men than he had been promised (ten thousand instead of forty thousand), "so that he is not able as yet to undertake any siege"; adding that "Private Letters mention several advantages got by the Allyes in Catalonia over the french. they report that the Duke of Noailles has been repulsed with great Loss at a River he endeavoured to pass, & that 4000 Horses, which the Duke of Orleans was sending to reinforce the sayd Duke of Noailles, have been so beaten by 900 German horses & 6000 Mickelets [miquelets], that 1500 have remained upon the spot."
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