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Manuscript, 'Extract Sommaire de l'Affaire des Poisons', 1677-1682, an official account of the arrest and trial of 442 persons accused of crimes using poison, in a late 17th century hand, 115 pp., 370 x 240 mm; and a manuscript of instructions for different styles of address and subscription in French royal correspondence, 18th century, approx. 270 pp., 330 x 200mm.
BOURDALOUE, Louis (1632-1704, French Jesuit preacher). Autograph notes, 'Presages arrivés en france par la tonerre en 1684', and various reflections on religious subjects, 8 pp., written on the blank leaves of a manuscript in a different hand of 'Remarques sur l'Advertissement Pastoral avec une Relation de ce qui se passe a Bione proche d'Orleans' (a report of a consistory assembly), approx. 170 pp., 145 x 95mm, inscribed on front free endpaper, 'acheté a geneve 1687'.
[FRASER, of Brae, James (1639-1698, Covenanting theologian and preacher)]. Manuscript, 'Ane Account of the most remarkable Circumstances of Providence to Mr James Fraser of Brea', a transcript by H. Grant of the original manuscript of his autobiographical memoirs (published 1738), Inchoch, 1720, 339 pp., 159 x 102mm, 18th century calf.
[HIEL, i.e. Hendrik Jansen, 16th century Dutch mystic]. Manuscript translation in English of his 'Eternal Testament', written in a late 18th century hand, 102 pp., 200 x 155mm. With 3 others.
Provenance. Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton (gilt stamp on 3 manuscripts); Robert Marquess of Crewe (bookplates). (8)
BOURDALOUE, Louis (1632-1704, French Jesuit preacher). Autograph notes, 'Presages arrivés en france par la tonerre en 1684', and various reflections on religious subjects, 8 pp., written on the blank leaves of a manuscript in a different hand of 'Remarques sur l'Advertissement Pastoral avec une Relation de ce qui se passe a Bione proche d'Orleans' (a report of a consistory assembly), approx. 170 pp., 145 x 95mm, inscribed on front free endpaper, 'acheté a geneve 1687'.
[FRASER, of Brae, James (1639-1698, Covenanting theologian and preacher)]. Manuscript, 'Ane Account of the most remarkable Circumstances of Providence to Mr James Fraser of Brea', a transcript by H. Grant of the original manuscript of his autobiographical memoirs (published 1738), Inchoch, 1720, 339 pp., 159 x 102mm, 18th century calf.
[HIEL, i.e. Hendrik Jansen, 16th century Dutch mystic]. Manuscript translation in English of his 'Eternal Testament', written in a late 18th century hand, 102 pp., 200 x 155mm. With 3 others.
Provenance. Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton (gilt stamp on 3 manuscripts); Robert Marquess of Crewe (bookplates). (8)