BIB_ID
404272
Accession number
MA 4644.26
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 August 30.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 17.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborn / England / London." "At his house in Holborn, London and England have been crossed through and replaced with an illegible address.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated August 19 / 30, 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 19 / 30, 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
Reporting on the good progress of the boys and also reporting on the latest political and military news; saying that the reports they are getting from Provence "...are still various & uncertain...They pretend to have got the better upon 4 bataillons of the allyes which were posted upon St. Catharine hill on the 15th but give no particulars of the action; so that we must expect Letters directly from the Duke of Savoy's camp to be Informed of the true posture of affairs on that side, before we can know any thing with certainty. for tho ther's some People that pretend to have Intelligence that Toulon is surrendered to the Duke or at Least ready to do it, yett what they say wants confirmation. As to the King of Sweden his troops have at last begun to march out of Saxony. The Letters from thence of the 24th N.S. say that four days before, his Artillery & Pontons were on their march, & were followed two days after by some regiments of foot, and that part of the Horse & Dragoons were in motion the same way, the same day the Letters were written. as for the King himself the day of his departure was not yet fixed, tho his Life Guards & baggage were in a readiness to march. The Letters add that his Imperial Majesty has promised to restore the affairs of the Protestants upon the foot of the Treaty of Munster, & has already appointed Commissioners to examine the Grievances of those of Silesia, in order to redress them. This is all that I can acquaint y'r Grace withall;" informing him that he will need to draw an additional £100 and assuring him that he is taking good care of the finances.
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