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Letter to Sir Isaac Wake [textual record]

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1631.

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R16745-0-4-E, MG21-HarleyMSS.1760, Volume number: 1

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105222

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Letter to Sir Isaac Wake
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Date(s):

1631.

Place of creation:

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Extent:

7 p. of textual records : transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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Letter, 12 June 1631, from Charles I to Sir Isaac Wake ([1580]-1632), British ambassador to Louis XIII, concerning the settlement of outstanding issues between Britain and France, including payment of the Queen's dowry, the restitution of Quebec, and matters relating to Port Royal in Nova Scotia. Transcript, 7 pages.

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Wake, Isaac, ca. 1580-1632

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Wake, Isaac, ca. 1580-1632 : Diplomatist.

Sir Isaac Wake ([1580]-1632) was appointed British ambassador to the French court in 1631 and, in June 1632, died in Paris of an attack of fever.

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Documents created in: England.

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The Harleian Manuscripts were collected by Robert Harley (1661-1724) and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford, respectively. The material was purchased from the Countess of Oxford and Mortimer and the Duchess of Portland, in 1753, by the British Museum (now the British Library). It is kept as a separate collection catalogued as Harley MSS. 1-7660. Harleian MSS. 1760 is a folio volume containing a "Collection of Original Letters, &c., written or signed by Princes," which was presented to the collector (either one of the Earls of Oxford, or one of the smaller collectors whose collections came to be included in the Harleian Library) by the deputy-keeper of the Tower records, George Holmes (1662-1749)., About 1884, the National Archives of Canada transcribed one small excerpt from it (document No. 5, ff. 10-12), which was originally included among the Miscellaneous Documents, Volume 26, that at one time constituted Volume 402 of the old "M" Series. It was printed in the Report on Canadian Archives for 1884, Note D, pages 1x-1xii.

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Originals with the British Library, London, England.

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Private

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MG21-HarleyMSS.1760
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