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Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, 1645-1712

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1645 - 1712

Biography

Sidney Godolphin (1645-1712), Earl of Godolphin, British politician

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

William Blathwayt papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 2
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, newsletters, diplomatic papers, and reports documenting Blathwayt's career and English foreign policy and history in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Dates: 1646-1796, bulk 1668-1703

[Letterbook]. Whitehall

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB137
Abstract:

Manuscript in an unidentified hand.
The volume was used as a scrapbook in the 19th century, and most of the volume (170 f. in all) contains engravings, etc., cut from contemporary magazines and newspapers, and a few original drawings. Among the engravings is one after Bartolozzi, identified on the page opposite as the first attempt at engraving by William Chaughton (b. 1770), aged 17, late a ploughboy, and in 1787 a protege of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. (1743-1820).

Dates: 1684 Apr 15 to Aug 19

Letter : Whitehall, Treas'y Chambers, to James, Duke of Ormonde, Ireland, 1706 May 16

 Part of Collection — Box 54: [Barcode: 39002137225299], Folder: GROUP 1937, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS transmitting a petition from Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Thanet.

The petition is not present.

With a manuscript description of the letter and an outline of the life of Godolphin in an unidentified hand.

Dates: 1706 May 16

Manchester papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS fc.37
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, copies of treaties, speeches and credentials, orders, memoranda, reports, newsletters and other papers mostly relating to diplomatic, political and military affairs in western Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession. In addition to documenting Manchester's missions to the republic of Venice and the court of France, the papers provide much detail on shifting relations among the northern powers, the break between France and England following the...
Dates: 1697-1737

Edmund Poley papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 1
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence and diplomatic papers documenting aspects of English history and foreign policy between 1680 and 1705.

Dates: 1645-1707