BIB_ID
404288
Accession number
MA 4644.66
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 August 28.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 21.9 x 17.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / Recommended to Mr. Robothom / at the Post office in Lombard / Street / England / London." A note has been added beneath this address but it is illegible.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated August 17 / 28, 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 August 17 / 28, 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
Sending on the news they have received about the various military campaigns underway; writing that the Duke of Savoy (Victor Amadeus), by deceiving the duc de Villars with marches and countermarches, has entered the Dauphiné region and seized the fort of Exilles; explaining how this position benefits him; on the subject of the siege of Lille, writing that the Duke of Burgundy's army is marching to join up with the Duke of Berwick, and the Duke of Marlborough is attempting to prevent that meeting; commenting that they expect another major engagement soon: "it is not doubted amongst our Generals but there will very soon happen another engagement, which will, in all probability, determine Matters Betwixt the allyes & the french"; conveying a request from Lady Bridget that £70 be returned to her via Sir Francis Child, "the seventy pounds which were in his hands belonging to her Ladyship, of which part had been received by Mistake by some of your Graces Servants."
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