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DCC - Crewe (Cowper) Collection - 1509-1904

1 - Original works by William Cowper, or items which are numbered ' C C ' in Cowper's hand

2 - Works evidently collected by William Cowper, or which formed part of the Condover (Cholmondeley) Collection listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission

3 - Works not included in the Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the Condover (Cholmondeley) Collection, and probably collected by the Crewe family

4 - Printed Works

5 - Condover (Cowper) Collection - 1569-1642

1 - Letter (Contemporary copy) from R(obert 2nd Earl of) Leycester to Sir Hugh Cholmondley, Kt., Vice President of Wales, Sir John Throckmarton, Kt., Justice of Chester, William Gerrard and Richard Pates, Esqs - 14 May 1569

2 - Petition of Robert Whitbie on behalf of the Mayor of Chester to the Lords, concerning the transport of Troops to Ireland - c 1598

3 - Articles - c 1609

4 - Letter from Sir Francis Windebank to the Mayor of Chester and William Edwardes esq - 6 Nov 1637

5 - Information by Thomas Cremer of Gray's Inn, Co. Middlesex, gentleman - 30 Oct 1641

6 - Examination of Arthur Magneis or Magenes - 30 Oct 1641

7 - Information by Redmond Comen - 1 Nov 1641

8 - Letter (copy) from Thomas Cowper, mayor, William Gamull, Nicholas Ince, Christopher Blease, Charles Walley, Thomas Bird, William Sparke, Randle Holme, Thomas Throppe, Robert Harvie and Thomas Aldersey to the Lords of the Council - (1) Nov 1641

9 - Letter from (Col. Sir) Henry Bruce to his nephew Lt. Col. John Read - 2 Nov 1641

10 - Order from A(lgernon 10th Earl of) Northumberland (Lord High Admiral) to the Mayor of Chester, to prevent officers from Flanders and others crossing to Ireland to join the Rebels. Yorkehouse - 4 Nov 1641

11 - Cover to the above, showing the way in which it was passed from courier to courier from London to Chester - 4 Nov 1641

12 - Order (copy) by the Lords in Parliament, that Arthur Magennis and Redmond Comyn, now under restraint at Chester, be brought before them - 5 Nov 1641

13 - Information of Thomas Whitstone of Tredath, yeoman - 6 Nov 1641

14 - Examination of Arthur Progers, servant to Sir Henry Bruce, Kt., gentleman of the Privy Chamber to the King - 6 Nov 1641

15 - Order from A(lgernon 10th Earl of) Northumberland (Lord High Admiral) to the Mayor of Chester - 9 Nov 1641

16 - Letter (copy) from Thomas Cowper, mayor, to the Earl of Northumberland, Lord High Admiral - 13 Nov 1641

17 - Letter from the Irish Privy Council to the Mayor of Chester - 3 Jan 1642

18 - Letter from the Irish Privy Council to the Mayor of Chester - 14 Jan 1642

19 - Order (copy) by the Lords in Parliament - 25 Jan 1642

20 - Letter from A(lgernon 10th Earl of) Northumberland (Lord High Admiral) to the Mayor of Chester - 25 Jan 1642

21 - Cover to the above - 25 Jan 1642

22 - Receipt for œ132-6-0, being 1 month's pay for his troop, received from the Mayor and Aldermen of Chester by Captain Jonathan Atkins - 1 Feb 1642

23 - Receipt for œ193-8-8, being 1 month's pay for his troop, received from the Mayor and Aldermen of Chester by Serjt. Major Henry Waren - 1 Feb 1642

24 - Letter from Sir William Brereton to the Mayor and Aldermen of Chester - 1 Feb 1642

25 - Letter (copy) from Thomas Cowper to the Lord High Admiral - 5 Feb 1642

26 - Letter (copy) from Thomas Cowper, Mayor, to Sir William Brereton, in answer to his letter of 1st Feb. (no. DCC/47/24) - 5 Feb 1642

27 - Letter (copy) from Thomas Cowper, Mayor, to Sir William Brereton - 12 Feb 1642

28 - Order of the House of Commons allowing Sir William Brereton œ40 for the levying and transport of 40 men to Ireland to recruit Captain Biddulph's company, 40 of whom were drowned in relieving Tredaghe - 15 Feb 1642

29 - Letter from Sir William Brereton to the Mayor of Chester - 17 Feb 1642

30 - Letter from (Algernon 10th Earl of) Northumberland to the Mayor of Chester, concerning the alleged grant of a pass to Connell, servant of the Recorder of Dublin and a papist - 22 Feb 1642

31 - Receipt for œ40, received by John Brereton, by virtue of an order of the House of Commons of 15th Feb. and direction of Sir William Brereton, fro the Mayor and Aldermen of Chester - 25 Feb 1642

32 - Letter from the Irish Privy Council to the Mayor of Chester - 28 Feb 1642

33 - Letter from the Irish Privy Council to the Mayor of Chester - 2 Mar 1642

34 - Receipt by Thomas Sandford, Captain of 200 firelocks in Chester, to Thomas Cowper, Mayor of the said city - 5 Mar 1642

35 - Receipt for œ13-4-0 for transport in the Ellen of Liverpoole, of 22 horses of Captain Treswell's troop from Liverpoole to Dublin - 8 Mar 1642

36 - Receipt for œ18-0-0 for transport in the Farwell of Neston of 30 horse of Sir Richard Grenvill's troop from Chester to Dublin - 11 Mar 1642

37 - Receipt for £19-4-0 for transport in the Elizabeth of Liverpoole of 32 horses of Captain Treswell's troop from Liverpoole to Dublin - 16 Mar 1642

38 - Letter (copy; incomplete) from Thomas Cowper to Sir Thomas Smyth and Francis Gamull - 12 Mar 1642

39 - Letter from the Irish Privy Council to the Mayor of Chester - 26 Mar 1642

40 - Letter (copy) from Thomas Cowper to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland - 2 July 1642

41 - Letter from K. Charles I to the Mayor of Chester, requesting him to take into his special care and custody some goods of the Duchess of Buckingham's recently arrived at Neston from Dublin - 14 Aug 1642

42 - Agreement (copy) made at Warington between the Rt. Hon. Earl of Derby, the Rt. Hon. Earl Rivers and other Lords, Knights and gentlemen of the counties of Lancs. and Chester - 21 Oct 1642