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Title
Date(s)
- 1730-[c. 1752] (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
45 ff. ; 370 x 245 mm. and less.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Sotheby's; London; Purchased at auction, lot 1; 14 November 1978.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Documents, 1730-[c. 1752], probably accumulated by a French lawyer, Daminois, for a legal case, concerning the silver mines of Guadalcanal, Spain, and the alleged defrauding of investors in that enterprise by Lady Mary Herbert ('Demoiselle Powis'), daughter of the Marquess of Powis, and her agent Marc Antoine Mortemer.
They comprise three cross-sections of the mines, one printed, dated 1730 (f. 1), one watercolour (f. 35) and one in pencil (f. 45); a printed petition to the King of Spain from the Duc d'Estrées, Marechal of France, the Duc de Béthune and other French nobles complaining about Demoiselle Powis, [1733x1737] (ff. 3-9); a legal memoir by the lawyer Daminois, defending a Mr Privat, deceived by Demoiselle Powis and jailed, [c. 1752] (ff. 36-44); and four draft memoirs, [after 1741], in the same hand, describing the exploitation of the Guadalcanal mines from June 1725 to December 1730 (ff. 10-14), the alleged swindling of French nobles (ff. 15-20), and two documents reciting the history of the mines from the Roman period up to February 1732 (ff. 21-34).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged in general chronological order.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
French.
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 15264E.
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Place access points
Name access points
- Herbert, Mary, Lady, 1685-1775. (Subject)
- Mortemer, Marc Antoine. (Subject)
- Privat, inspector of mines. (Subject)
- Estrées, Victor Marie, duc d', 1660-1737. (Subject)
- Béthune, Eugène-François, duc de, 1671-1761. (Subject)
- Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746. (Subject)
- Daminois, lawyer. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
September 2008.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Cyprien Henry and Rhys Morgan Jones