From the Collection: Blathwayt, William, 1649?-1717
Published / Created:
1699 Jul 2/[12]-20/30
Call Number:
OSB MSS 2
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 178
Image Count:
12
Description:
Reporting on Charles II's health and the actions of the Spanish Council of State. The letter of Jul 6/16 is accompanied by a copy, in Spanish, of Stanhope's note to Don Antonio Ubilla and his reply concerning William III's arrival at the Hague.
1. Ubilla, Antonio.
2. Carlos II, King of Spain, 1661-1700.
3. Spain--History--Charles II, 1665-1700.
From the Collection: Blathwayt, William, 1649?-1717
Published / Created:
1699 Aug 3/13-Oct 12/22
Call Number:
OSB MSS 2
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 178
Image Count:
31
Description:
Reporting on papal support for Spain against the Darien colony, Don Antonio Ubilla's representation against negotiations in Loo concerning the Spanish succession, and the king's health. The letter of Aug 3/13 is partially printed in Manon's Spain under Charles the Second, 1840, p. 145. A copy of Ubilla's representation, in Spanish, with two copies in French, is enclosed in the letter of Aug 17/27 and Stanhope's reply of Aug 24 concerning the imprisoning of an Irish friar, chaplain to the Spanish ambassador to England.
1. Ubilla, Antonio.
2. Darien. Scots' Colony.
3. Carlos II, King of Spain, 1661-1700.
4. Spain--History--Charles II, 1665-1700.
5. Great Britain. Treaties, etc., 1694-1702 (William III).
6. Great Britain--Foreign relations--Spain.
8 p., with address. 19 x 12 cm. Sends a copy of 'The Traveller a Fragment', from Select Pieces in Verse and Prose by John Bowdler, 'one of the finest Fragments I ever met with'.
4 p., with address. 32 x 21 cm. Rogers describes all the places he has visited, including Vesuvius and Pompeii. He bewails the slowness of the work at Pompeii under the new king.