Hsitory Of The Commonwealth and Protectorate: Volume 1 1649-50: v. 1 (History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate) - Hardcover

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In entering upon the third and last stage of a task the accomplishment of which seemed to me manyyears ago to be within the bounds of possibility, I have little new to say about my authorities. Still, as before, I quote from Carlyle s Cromwell; the Clarke Papers, of which the second volume, as yet unpublished, has been lent me by Mr. Firth; the Nicholas Papers, edited by Mr. Warner; Mr. Gilbert s Contemporary History of Affairs in I reland; the vast collection of the Thomason Tracts in the British Museum; and the Clarendon, Carte, and Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian library. The French despatches in the Archives des Affaires trangeres have been supplemented by a volume in the Harleian MSS. (4551), containing amongst other French correspondence the original letters of Graymond, the French A gent in Scotland. One quotation from the Clarke MSS. refers to an unpublished volume which Mr. Firth is preparing to edit for the Scottish History Society. Valuable information on Montrose slast campaign is to be found in the notes and appendices to the recent edition of Wishart s Deeds of Montrose, edited with the title of The Memoirs of James, Marquis of Montrose, by Messrs. Murdoch andS
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