BIB_ID
404291
Accession number
MA 4644.68
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 September 11.
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 31 / September 11, 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 31 / September 11, 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 news of the military operations underway in Flanders; writing that the French army, under the command of the Duke of Burgundy, came within sight of the allied forces, "But Seing the Duke of Marleborough ready to ready receive them, they stopt & durst not attack him"; on the subject of the siege of Lille, mentioning that news came the previous night of the storming of the counterscarp; adding that the letter in which the "Prince of Frizeland" (Johan Willem Friso) gave an account of the action said that the allied side lost only a thousand men, though Berard believes that the number might be higher; describing the military tactics being used by the French: "the Enemy has sprung 2 mines & thrown vast quantity of Bombs amongst the Besiegers"; writing that they are nevertheless lodged on the counterscarp and expect to take the town soon; mentioning that he is enclosing information about the prices of different kinds of velvet (no longer with the letter); adding in a postscript the date of the attack on the counterscarp.
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