BIB_ID
404365
Accession number
MA 4644.47
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 March 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.0 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborne / England / London."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated March 2, 1707 / March 13, 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 March 2, 1707 / March 13, 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
Reporting on the latest political and military news; saying "All the talk is about the preparations of the french at Dunkirk & other ports in the ocean, of which they seem not much afrayd; yet they stand in Zeland on their guard, & the States General have ordered to fit without delay 30 men of war to watch over the french & to be ready to oppose them. To my mind all the french preparations aim specially at the hindering of both English & Dutch to send so speedily any troops into Spain, that King Phillip may gain further & further upon King Charles before he's in a condition to oppose the Duke of Orleans & the Portugaise's the Marquess de Bay, who commands the french & Spanish troops on their side. As to the preparations of the Dutch for the next campagne, they are very great. a friend of mine, who's a Brigadier General in their Service, has shewed me a List of the infantry the states will have in flanders, which comes to 92 bataillons, which, as he has assured me, amount of 52000 men, at least, without Including the officers. He had not yet got the List of the horse & Dragoons; but expects it every moment. The Horse & Dragoons are commonly the 3rd part of the foot, so that they will be eighteen or twenty thousand which will be above 70000 men, only upon the Dutch pay; without Reckoning the troops in the English pay, & in the flanders pay, which Joyned to the seventy thousand above, will make an army of above 110000 men. It is only to be wished that they be less unactive then last summer & that by their means we may have a nearer prospect of a good & lasting peace."
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