Archives of the Secretary of State 
77 
388 , 389 . Registers of ciphers to the nuncio. 1700-1719. 
394 - 435 . Fondo Spada. Badly inventoried. Letters; ciphers to and 
from the nuncio; instructions; and miscellany; chiefly for the years 
1623-1627, but with some as late as 1675. Nos. 419 , 420 , and 423 
may be omitted. 
436 - 440 . Letters to the nuncio. 1670-1676. 
441 - 442 . Registers of ciphers to the nuncio. 1730-1758. 
443 - 445 . Registers of letters to the nuncio. 1734-1758. Irregular series. 
445 A -447 A. Minutes to the nuncio. 1741-1758. 
448 , 449 , 454 , 454 A, 456 , 457 , 458 , 459 , 460 , 462 . Letters to the nun¬ 
cio. 1758-1784. Irregular series. 
449 A, 450 A, 453 , 455 , 455 A, 461 , 461 A. Ciphers to the nuncio. 1758- 
1779. Irregular series including some plain letters. 
451 , 463 A. Notes to the French ambassador. 1758-1794. 
452 A, 458 (A-B), 462 A, 463 . Minutes to the nuncio. 1760-1762, 1769- 
1791. 
465 - 466 , 474 , 477 , 480 - 483 , 485 - 489 , 494 - 504 , 506 - 508 , 512 , 524-528 A, 
549 - 559 , 571 - 575 . Letters of the nuncio. 1721-1738, 1740-1785, 
1787-1791. Practically regular series. 
560 . Ciphers of the auditor of the nuncio. 1773. 
467 - 473 , 475 , 476 , 490 , 505 , 513 - 523 , 530 - 548 , 561 . Ciphers to the nuncio, 
with some letters. 1721-1774. Regular series, except that nos. 542 - 
548 form a separate series of registers of ciphers, 1767-1773. 
478 , 479 . Notes of the French minister. 1741-1757. 
576 - 579 . Minutes of letters from the Abbe Pieracchi. 1785-1791. 
580 - 582 . Miscellany. 
583 . Minutes of letters to the Abbe Salomon. 1791-1793. 69 
584 . 586 - 595 , 598 - 602 . Correspondence between Cardinal Caprara, Car¬ 
dinal Consalvi, and Mgr. Spina. 1800-1808. 
585 . Letters of the nuncio. 1787-1788. 
596 , 597 . Letters of the French minister. 1801-1809. 
603 , 604 , 606 , 607 . Letters to the French minister. 1801-1802, 1804- 
i8oq. 
610 . Letters to the nuncio. 1763. 
611 . Letters of Abbe Malani to the secretary of state. 1701-1708. 
612 . 614 . Letters of the nuncio. 1720-1722, 1746-1748. 
613 . Minutes, etc., of the nuncio. 1730-1739. 
615 . Original dispatches to the nuncio. 1757-1758. 
NUNZIATURA DI FIANDRA. 70 
A brief list of the volumes of this collection is given in indice 134 , De Pretis, 
pp. 128-135. ^ consists of 244 numbers: 1 - 8 , 11 - 194 , and 3 A, 12 A, 21 A, 
25 A, 66 A, 135 (A-I, L, N-V, Z, and Aa-Ii-Ll-Vv), an extra 136,147 (A-C), 
and 153 (A-C). Although the nunciature of Brussels was not formally estab- 
69 This is published. Vicomte de Richemont, Correspondance Secrete de Salomon 
(Paris, 1898). 
Abbe Alfred Cauchie, De la Creation d’une Ecole Beige a Rome; Congres Archeo- 
logique et Historique de Tournai en 1895 (Tournai, 1896), pp. 69. Pp. 24-34 give: 
“ Liste des Nonces et Internonces de Bruxelles ainsi que des Volumes renfermant leur 
Correspondance avec la Cour Romaine.” A. Cauchie and R. Maere, “ Les Instructions 
Generates aux Nonces des Pays-Bas Espagnols (1596-1633)”, in Revue d’Histoire 
Ecclesiastique, V. 16-46. This discusses their character and value, and serves as an 
