BIB_ID
404331
Accession number
MA 4644.34
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 November 22.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 17.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborn / London." Holborn and London have been crossed through and replaced with "Wimbleton."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated November 11 / 22, 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 November 11 / 22, 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
Apologizing that he still has no definitive intelligence on the "state of war for next year" but that he had heard from a friend who is a Magistrate in Utrecht "...that a considerable augmentation both of Land forces & shipping had been resolved upon, & that to bear the charges of it, a tax, or excise upon all wines Imported would be Layd, which by Esteem was reckoned capable of yielding 10 millions of florins, or about nine hundred thousand pounds: adding that he would let him know of any further information he receives."
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