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A Visit to the United Provinces and Cleves in the Time of William III

A Visit to the United Provinces and Cleves in the Time of William III A VISIT TO THE UNITED PROVINCES AND CLEVES IN THE TIME OF WILLIAM HI DESCRIBED IN EDWARD SOUTHWELL'S ]OURNAL KATHARINE FREMANTLE On 5th September 1696 the "sober, wise & virtuous" Sir Robert Southwell (1635-17°2), secretary of state for Ireland and an experienced diplomat, who had recently been president of the Royal Society and was a friend of Evelyn, wrote from his country house at Kings Weston near Bristol to William Cole: "My son after 4 Months absence in the Camp and over all the Townes of Brabant and Holland and the Brandenbourg Court at Cleves, came happily to Us on thursday night. Soe as now wee are all chearfully together" 1. The traveller was Edward Southwell (1671-173°), who after being educated at horne and at Oxford had, as a "doctissimus juvenis", been sworn an extraordinary clerk to the privy council in 1693 and in 1695 had been joined with two others in the office of chief prothonotary of the common pleas in Ireland. In 1699 he was to become a full clerk to the privy council. He later held other official posts. In 1720 he himself became secretary of state for Ireland 2. During at least part of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online Brill

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Brill
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Copyright 1970 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0169-6726
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2214-5966
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10.1163/22145966-90000416
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A VISIT TO THE UNITED PROVINCES AND CLEVES IN THE TIME OF WILLIAM HI DESCRIBED IN EDWARD SOUTHWELL'S ]OURNAL KATHARINE FREMANTLE On 5th September 1696 the "sober, wise & virtuous" Sir Robert Southwell (1635-17°2), secretary of state for Ireland and an experienced diplomat, who had recently been president of the Royal Society and was a friend of Evelyn, wrote from his country house at Kings Weston near Bristol to William Cole: "My son after 4 Months absence in the Camp and over all the Townes of Brabant and Holland and the Brandenbourg Court at Cleves, came happily to Us on thursday night. Soe as now wee are all chearfully together" 1. The traveller was Edward Southwell (1671-173°), who after being educated at horne and at Oxford had, as a "doctissimus juvenis", been sworn an extraordinary clerk to the privy council in 1693 and in 1695 had been joined with two others in the office of chief prothonotary of the common pleas in Ireland. In 1699 he was to become a full clerk to the privy council. He later held other official posts. In 1720 he himself became secretary of state for Ireland 2. During at least part of

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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1970

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