BIB_ID
404324
Accession number
MA 4644.72
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 October 12.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 17.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / Recommended to Mr. Robothom / at the general Post office / England / London." The words "at Wimbledon" have been added below the address in an unknown hand.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated October 1 / 12, 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 October 1 / 12, 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
Explaining that he had not written earlier because he and the rest of the Osborne family had traveled to Amsterdam to take communion; telling him that Lady Bridget is anxious to hear about the state of the Duke's health, and intends to return to England at the earliest opportunity; writing that "If the Queen of Portugal was gone hence as soon as it was expected she should, or if Captain Biron (to whom I wrote about it) had not been taken up for some of the Queen's retinue; her Ladyship would have been in England before this time"; sending news of the military operations underway, including that the Duke of Vendome is attempting to intercept the second convoy at Ostend (and to fix what "Count de La Mothe had done amiss"), a large section of the allied forces are preparing to oppose him, and "ther's Likely to happen a Bloody Ingagement, if the french do not avoid it, as they have hitherto done"; commenting on the breakdown in relations between Pope Clement XI and Emperor Joseph I; accusing the Pope of fomenting rebellion in Hungary; comparing the conflict to that between Henry VIII and the Catholic Church; apologizing for his "Scribbling & Blots."
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