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K48 to 1553- Twenty-six letters from the council during the 

 Protedorate of the Duke of Somerfet and four letters after 

 his depofition, all original, and containing the autographs of 

 almoft every member of the council — viz. of the Dukes of 

 Somerfet, Northumberland and Suffolk, the Marquiffes of 

 Winchefter and Northampton, Earls of Southampton, Bedford, 

 Arundel and Pembroke, Lords Seymour, Rich and Paget — 

 Bifhop of Ely, Chancellor, Cranmer Archbifhop of Canterbury, 

 Sir T. Smith, Sir W. Cecill, Petu, Wotton, Hampton, &c. 

 Some of thefe letters contain important information, whilft 

 others are merely orders for hiring foreign troops, fending 

 ammunition, or on other official matters. Copies of all advices 

 from Scotland, with which kingdom the Englifh were then 

 at war, arc annexed to thefe letters, and are curious as giving 

 the detail of the military tranfadions, and as being the only 

 court gazette in thofe times. 



Five letters from the Duke of Somerfet. 



Two ditto from the Duke of Northumberland. 



One ditto from Duke of Bedford and others fent ambaf- 

 fadours to France, dated Boulogne, March 1549, giving an 

 account of the peace they had juft concluded with France. 



Two ditto from the famous Cecill, afterwards Lord Bur- 

 leigh, one of them an entire autograph written in great agita- 

 tion in the interval between the death of King Edward and 

 the proclamation of the Lady Jane Gray. 



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