BIB_ID
404251
Accession number
MA 4644.59
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 July 3.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at his house in Wimbleton / England / London." The original address was given as "at his house in Holborn": the word "Holborn" has been crossed out.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated June 22 / July 3, 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 22 / July 3, 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
Sending on the news they have received from Paris, namely that "they look on the Campagne as ended in Roussillon", because the Duke of Noailles was not able to enter Catalonia and sent part of his troops to reinforce the Duke of Villars in Provence; it is also thought that the summer heat will prevent the Duke of Orleans from attacking until September, "so that the Germans troops will have time enough to come with Admiral Lake [probably Admiral Leake] & to refresh themselves before there is any occasion of acting"; sending on the news they have received from Genoa, which is that there has been unrest in Palermo "occasioned by the Insolency of the Soldiers newly come from Spain"; conveying more military news, including that Admiral Leake, Charles VI and his wife Elisabeth Christine are about to set sail with approximately eight thousand German troops, that the Duke of Savoy's army is ready to enter either Dauphiné or Provence, depending on where he thinks the French are weakest, that the Duke of Berwick is heading towards towards "the Maese" (the Meuse River), and that the Electors of Bavaria (Maximilian II Emmanuel) and Brunswick (George I) are preparing to engage each other near the Rhine; describing the physical conditions and a near-miss: "The Armies, both of the Allyes & of the french, will soon be obliged to remove their Camps for want of forrage, which must be fetched up at a great distance; & they write that General Auverkerk [Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk] has been lately in Danger to be taken by a french party, which had got near a place where he went a walking, & was happily discovered in time"; telling him that Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, has recently been invested with the high Palatinate; mentioning that the citizens of Hamburg had to pay two hundred thousand crowns to the troops of Sweden, Prussia, Hanover and Wolfenbüttel for their service during the unrest earlier in the year (see MA 4644.54); promising to send his accounts for the last quarter soon, but writing that he has had trouble extracting bills from some shop keepers.
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