Collection of manuscripts, many pertaining to the War of Spanish Succession of 1701-14 or to the Seven Years War of 1754-63, as well as to life and politics in Britain and the Continent in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, including letters and documents by Eugene of Savoy (fine bold signature and papered seal on a document authorising payment to Cavaliere Angelo Zon on his return to the Venetian Republic, 1712); Marshal James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick (discussing arrivals at Marseilles, 1709); Louis XIV (a presumably secretarial signature, counter-signed by the Minister of War Chamillard, on an order concerning the siege of the Savoyard fortress of Verceil [Vercelli], 10 October 1704); General Lord Peterborough (a signed chit for gunner's stores for HM Ship Devonshire, during his and Shovell's expedition to Spain of 1705, and an autograph letter to Lord Chancellor King, written more in the vein of his friend Alexander Pope, putting King in mind "of the necessity of being a justice of peace in order to defend my grappes & peaches" as he has "Two Gardens to preserve, one in Wiltshire the other in Hampshire", 1731); James (later Earl) Stanhope, as Secretary of State (signed certificate confirming the return of Lord Peterborough from service as ambassador in Sicily and states in Italy [his last diplomatic posting on which at Swift's recommendation he was accompanied by George Berkeley]), 9 September 1714; General Lord Galway (submitting, as de facto head of the Irish administration of William III, to "their Excellencies the Lord Justices & General Governors of Ireland" certified copies of the accounts "of Captain Godfrey Richards late Purveyor of the Trayne [of Artillery] for Reduceing this Kingdome", counter-signed by William Robinson, architect and surveyor general for all buildings and fortifications in Ireland, 13 January 1697/8); General Lord Blakeney, the unsuccessful defender of Minorca in 1756; Marshal Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richlieu, who took Minorca (1785); General James Murray, defender of Quebec in 1757-60 and of Minorca in 1781-2 (autograph letter from Mahon, complaining that "Mr Gray my Agent is so fond of his Young Wife, or so much occupy'd in money'd pursuits I cannot depend upon him for the execution of any Commission", 1777); the duc de Crillon [afterwards Mahon], who was to defeat Murray and take Minorca for Spain (autograph letter, 1772); Field Marshal Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick, victor of Minden (two letters, the first autograph, 1756 and 1779), guards, minor worm-holes, dust-staining and other wear, various sizes, [1697-1785]