BIB_ID
404279
Accession number
MA 4644.27
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 September 6.
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." At his house in Holborn and London have been crossed through and an illegible address written in the address panel.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated August 26 / September 6, 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 26 / September 6, 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 most recent political and military news; informing him that "...the King of Sweden did at Last Leave Saxony...we hear that the Swedish troops make but slow hast. King Stanislaus was still in the dominions of the Electorate. twelve regiments of Swedes were still quiet in their quarters; & the king of Sweden himself, who was, as they thought, to be gone the day preceeding the date of the letters, was at the writing of them, still in his own with his whole Equipage. The Emperour did offer to restore the Protestants of Silesia into the State they were in y'e year 1648, but the K. of Sweden would have it on the foot they were in 1624. So that there were Expresses going to & coming frequently from Vienna about ending those Difficulties. Besides there were yet no Guaranties agreed upon for the Execution of the treaty in case it should be concluded; so that the differences which have been hitherto the pretence of the Swedes's staying are not yet removed;" reporting that he had news of the siege of Toulon but the information they received had few specifics; relating certain troop movements of Prince Eugene and word that "Prince Eugene had killed 3000 men upon the Spot of the body commanded by Count Medavy & that when he left Toulon he left the town Blocked up;" hoping to clarify much of what is "uncertain on both sides;" reporting that the boys are "very well, & constantly applyed to their studies & exercises."
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