Papers of the Revd. William Beauvoir (1669-1725)
BEAUVOIR PAPERS
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- ReferenceGB 109 MS 1552-1558
- Dates of Creation[1695-1723]
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description7 volumes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Beauvoir was a native of Guernsey, and served as a naval and military chaplain from 1695 to 1714. In that year, through the interest of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, he was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Stair and accompanied him on his embassy to France (1715-20). During this period he acted as intermediary between Archbishop Wake and Louis Ellies Du Pin, doctor at the Sorbonne, in negotiations designed to achieve union between the Anglican and Gallican Churches. He was collated to the rectory of Bocking, Essex, in 1719.
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Acquisition Information
They were purchased for the Library in 1956. For more information see LR/L/11 ff. 102-193.
Custodial History
All the volumes contain the bookplate of Osmund Beauvoir.
Bibliography
Adams, Leonard (ed.) "William Wake's Gallican correspondence and related documents 1716-1731" New York: Peter Lang, 1988-93 7v. [H5199.W2]Mosheim, J.L. "An Ecclesiastical History Ancient and Modern" London, 1810Sykes, N. "Old Priest and New Presbyter" Cambridgem 1956