Papers regarding the Treaty of Succession and Barrier

A series of papers dealing with the Treaty of Succession and Barrier between Great Britain and the Netherlands, 1713, written in four hands, 37 folios: (fo. 1) 1st hand, United Provinces Council of State: Ordinance, 31 October 1710, English translation; (fo. 3) 2nd hand, in Latin, Treaty of Succession and Barrier: separate article concluded 19 January 1713, printed; (fo. 50) 3rd hand, in English, Adriaan van der Hooghe van Brossele: 'Remarks on the Project of the Treaty of Succession and Barrier', translated into English; (fo. 17) treaty of Utrecht: marginal observations on several articles; (fo. 20) 4th hand, in French, a copy of a letter from Flanders Deputies to Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, 13 January 1713, 'transmitted to the Lords Commissioners for Trade with my Lord Bolingbroke's Letter Janry. 22d. 1713'; (fo. 22) Treaty of Articles 6, 9 and 13, translated into English, 'Transmitted [4 February 1713]'.

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Presented by H.M.V. Temperley, 1924.

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For further information see the History of the treaty of Utrecht, Vol. I (London, 1715), pp. 208 and 210.