BIB_ID
404326
Accession number
MA 4644.74
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 October 23.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 17.8 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 "now at Wimbledon" have been added in an unknown hand.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated October 12 / 23, 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 12 / 23, 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
Informing the Duke that the siege of Lille is going slowly because of the difficulty of bringing ammunition from Ostend, "which comes to the Camp but in 40 or 50 carts at once, the waters been so high by the breaking up of the Sluces & dikes, that the horses must wade through it up to their bellies & fall often into holes, from whence they must be drawn with a great deal of trouble & loss of time"; telling him, however, that "they write from the Camp that the place will be stormed as this day or to morrow, all things being in readiness for it"; passing on the news that "Monsr. d'Auverquerk" (Hendrik van Nassau, Lord Overkirk) has died in the camp and that there is bound to be a great deal of dispute about who should succeed him as Field Marshal; writing that they hear that Emperor Joseph I and Pope Clement XI are nearing an agreement; adding that Lady Bridget continues to await a ship that will take her back to England and that they are all anxious to hear about the Duke's health; telling him that he has drawn on Sir Francis Child for £100.
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