BIB_ID
404252
Accession number
MA 4644.23
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 August 2.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house / in Holborn / England / London." London has been crossed through and replaced with "At Wimbleton."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated July 22 / August 2, 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 July 22 / August 2, 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
Acknowledging receipt of his last letter informing them that he was leaving the decision as to whether Lord Danby might cut his hair to the Marchioness; saying that Lord Peregrine is very grateful to him for allowing him to "...follow his Inclination about Musick. He's not yet quite determined which sort he shall chuse, mean while I may assure y'r Grace that the time he will spend in it, will not hinder him from applying himself to the drawing both architecture & landskips, which he loves to do, & is great proficient in;" relating the latest political and military news; saying "Ther's reason to hope for a great alteration in the affairs of the present campagne, which had begun with so dismall a prospect for the Allyes, since the letters from Paris say that the Court is in great fear for Toulon. We hear from the Duke of Savoy 's army that upon the 18 of July they got over the River of Argent, which is within 8 leagues of Toulon, and they were three days march towards Toulon nearer than the Marshal of Tessé, so that he will not be at hand to hinder them from sitting before the town. Besides the Duke of Savoy's army is reckoned, even by the french themselves, to be 35000 strong, whereas the Marshalls is not 25000 : and if it were true, what Signor Erizzo, one of the Venetian ambassadors, has said in this country to an acquaintance of mine, that such a general as Tessé was worth 10000 men to the Allyes, they & the french would be at great odds in Provence. As to the King of Sweden, ther's no talk yet of his leaving Saxony; yet they do not seem afrayd in Holland of any disturbance from him to the Allyes. I was yesterday with one of his subjects, who's very positive in assuring of his kings good intentions towards the Common Cause of Europe...Time will discover the truth of all; mean while one may Judge that the King of Sweden would not have accepted of the Queen's mediation between him & the Emperour, If he intended either to Invade Bohemia or to help the Hungarians at this time. On the other side the Emperour seems to be ready to give him any satisfaction he can desire, since his Imperial Maj'ty has condescended so far as to deliver into the kinds hands one of his own chief officers, the Count of Zabor, of whom the King complains, & has besides promised upon his desires to restore to the Protestants of Silesia Several Churches & Estates which had been formerly taken from them;" adding that Lord Danby's letter to him "...was done in french originally by himself, & I may say that I corrected in it only few faults in the spelling."
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