BIB_ID
404255
Accession number
MA 4644.60
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 July 10.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 21.9 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at his house / England Wimbleton / London." The original address was given as "at his house in Holborn": the words "in Holborn" have been crossed out.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated June 29 / July 10, 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 29 / July 10, 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
Enclosing the abstract for the last quarter of his accounts (no longer with the letter) and explaining that expenses are slightly higher than last year because they had to purchase a new suit of clothes for a new footman, "having turned away another who began to Debauch"; writing that they hear that "My Lady Marchioness" (Lady Bridget) will be coming to see her sons and asking for guidance from the Duke for her visit; relaying the news they have received from Madrid and Genoa, including that the Duke of Orleans is planning to besiege Tortosa, that "Admiral Lake" (probably Admiral Leake) is going to set sail on July 8th with the Queen (Elisabeth Christine) and a large cohort of German troops, and that men-of-war on both the French and the allied sides have been "taken, sunk or forced a ground"; conveying information about the movements of Charles VI, Victor Amadeus (the Duke of Savoy) and Prince Eugene and his army, currently under the command of the "Hereditary Prince of Hesse Cassel" (possibly Frederik I of Sweden); adding "[t]he noise is that the Allyes design to besiege Dunkirk, & that Admiral Bing [Byng] with the fleet under his Command, & the troops ready to Imbark in the Isle of Wight, will be Imployed in that Siege"; asking for the dates of the Marchioness's upcoming visit to Utrecht.
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