BIB_ID
404256
Accession number
MA 4644.25
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 August 23.
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." At his house in Holborn and London have been crossed through and replaced with "Yorkshire."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated August 12 / 23, 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 August 12 / 23, 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
Expressing the appreciation of the boys "...for the care you have been pleased to take concerning the cutting of their hair, which will shortly be effected, having already had My Lady's consent to it;" reporting the latest news of the King of Sweden saying "All what we hear Concerning them is, that four Regiments of his, entred into Silesia, have asked of the Inhabitants, not only to provide them with forrage, but to furnish them with two hundred thousands florins, which come to about 25000 £ sterlg. Yet they write that the Emperour & he are like to come to an agreement, if the first will consent to restore all the churches, & estates depending upon them, which have been taken from the Lutherans in that country. Whereupon Count Wratislaw has sent an Express to Vienna, to know the final resolution of the Emperour about it...As to Prince Eugene, the direct post through Switzerland being wanting, & the news we receive from france being so various as they are, we know nothing certainly concerning Toulon, which makes people very uneasy in this country. They expect here to hear of some action in the Low Countries; But I doubt whether My lord Marlborough will venture to attack the french behind their lines, where they are reported to have retired"
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