

1796.) Original Letters between Doéfors Birch and Robertfon. ! 
as is likewife the fecond Edition of 4- 
érégé chronologique de ¢ Hifiove S du 
Droit public @ Allemagne jot printed at- 
Paris, and formed upon the plan of Pre- 
fident Henault’s Nowvel Abrégé chronolo- 
eique del Hiftoire de France, in which the 
reigns of Francis I and Henry IL will 
be proper to be feen by you. 
~The Memoires pour fervir &@ L’biftoire 
du Cardinal Granvelle by father Rofper, 
Levefaue a benediétin Monk which were 
printed at Paris in two, Vol’. 12° in 
1753 contain fome particulars relating to 
Charles V. But this performance is much 
lefs curious than it might have been, con- 
fidering that the Author had the advan- 
tage of a vat Collection, above an hun- 
dred Vclumes of the Cardinal’s original 
papers, at Bezancon. Among thefe are 
the papers of his Eminence’s tather who 
was Chancellour & Minifter to the Em- 
neror Charles Vs: ; - : 
Bithop Burnet in the Summary of Affairs 
before the Refloration prefixed to his Hifory 
of bis o1vn time, mentions a life of Frede- 
rick Eleétor Palatine who firft reformed 
the Palatinate as curion//y written by Hu- 
bert Thomas Leodius. “This book tho’ 
a very rare gne, isin my ftudy & fhall 
be fent to you. You will find in it many 
facts relating to your Emperor. ‘Fhe 
Manufeript was luckily faved when the 
library of Heydelberg was plundered and 
conveyed tothe Vatican after the taking 
of that City in 1622 and it was printed. 
in'1624at Francfort in 4°°. The Writer, 
had been Secretary & Councellor to the 
Fleétor,. 
Another book which I Shall tr®nfmit to 
you is a valuable colleétion of State pa- 
pers made by Mons? Rivier and printed 
at Blois in 1665 in two vols f°. They 
relate to the reigns of Francis 1, Henry, 
dt and Francis II of France. The in- 
dexes will direét you to fuch pafliges as 
concern the Emperor. 
As Nions'. Amelot de la Houffaie who 
was extremely converfant in modern hif- 
tory has in the 1* Tome of his Menmnires 
Hifloriques politiques et litteraires from 
156 to 193 treated of Charles V I fhall 
add that book to my parcel. : 
Varulas’s Life of Henry IT of France 
fhould be looked into, tho’ that Hitorian 
has not at prefent much reputation for 
exactnels and veracity. 
‘ 
555 
D' Fiddes in his life of Cardinal Wol- 
fey has frequent occafion to introduce the 
Emperor his Contemporary, of which 
Bayie in his diétionary gives us an ex- 
prefs article and nota thort,one, for it 
confiits of eight of, his pages. 
Roger Afcham Queen EBjizabeth’s Pre- 
ceptor when he was Secretary to S#, 
Richard Moryfin amb. from K Edward 
VI to the imperial Court wrete to a 
friend of his a Report & difcourfe of ibe 
affairs & fiate of Germany and tbe Emperor 
Charles's Court, Vhis was printed in the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth ; but the copies 
of that Edition are now very rare. How- 
ever this will be foo made public being 
reprinted in an Edition of all the Au- 
thor’s Zngliih works now in the prefs. 
The Epitres des, Princes tranflated from 
the Italian by Belleforeft will probably 
fupply you with fome few things to your 
urpofe. 
Vol 295 among the Harleian MSS. con- - 
tains little remarkable except fome let- 
ters from Henry VIII’s amb'. in Spain. 
in 1518 of which you may fee an abftraét 
in the printed Catalogue. 
in Dr.’ Hayne’s Collection of State 
papers in the Hatfield hiftory p 56 is a 
long letter of the Lord of the Council of 
Henry VIET. in 1546 to his ambr, with. 
the Emperor. . 
To Dr. BirncH. 
Extra from a letter of Dr. Rober tfons 
dated College of Edinburgh, OF. 8, 1765. 
* * * J have met with many interrup- 
tions. in. carrying on. my Charles. Vy 
partly from bad health, and partly from 
the avocations arifing from perform. 
ing the duties of my office. But I am 
now within Sight, of, Land. The hifto- 
rical part of the Work is finifhed & Iam 
bufy with a preliminary book in which I 
propofe to give a view of the progrefs in 
the, State of. Society, Laws, Manners, 
and Arts fromthe irruption of the barbo- 
rous nations to the beginning of the fix- 
teenth century. ‘This is a laborious ure 
dertaking; but I flatter myfelf that [ 
fhall be able to finifh it in a few Months, 
I have kept the books you was fo good as 
‘tofend me, & fhall return them carefully 
as foon as my work is done. 
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