Bibframe Work
TitleBritish Museum collectionTypeMixed MaterialCollectionContributionBritish Library. Manuscript. Lansdowne MS 116. (contributor)British Library. Manuscript. Royal MS 18. (contributor)British Library. Manuscript. Sloane MS 1447. (contributor)British Library. Manuscript. Sloane MS 1622. (contributor) SubjectAyscough, Samuel, 1745-1804 Catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed. 1782Borough, Stephen, 1525-1584Haldimand, Frederick, Sir, 1718-1791Ingram, David, active 1568Rolfe, John, 1585-1622Strachey, William, 1572?-1621Calvert family (LCSH)Land grants--Maryland (LCSH)Land grants--Newfoundland and Labrador (LCSH)America--Discovery and exploration--British (LCSH)Great Britain--Colonies--America (LCSH)Great Britain--History, Naval (LCSH)Vermont--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 (LCSH)Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 (LCSH) Notelanguage: Collection material in English.Forms part of: Peter Force papers and collection (Series 7E : entry 52)SummaryContains the appointment of Stephen Borowghe (Burrough) to the office of Chief Pilot of England, with his own reasons for the necessity of such an office, 1563 (Lansdowne MS 116/3; Burghley papers); correspondence and papers of Sir Frederick Haldimand relating to Vermont, 1780-1783; David Ingram's account of a journey from Mexico titled "The Relacon of Davyd Ingram ...of sundryes things which he with others did see in Travelinge by lande for the moste northerlie pte of the Bye of Mezico . . . 1582" (Sloane MS 1447); narrative of land patents issued to the Calvert family in Newfoundland and Maryland, 1620-1670 (Ayscough Catalogue 3662); John Rolfe''s "A true relation of ye State of Virginia," circa 1617 (Royal MS 18); and William Strachey's "Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britania," 1612 (Sloane MS 1622).Origin Date(s)1562-1783 Authorized Access PointBritish Museum collection