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A Messieurs les Magistrats de la Cour d’Assises de Lyon

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.44r
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  • 14 November 1839

    • Part of Old Library

A printed pamphlet in French, concerning the case of Karl Wilhelm Naundorff (1785?-1845), who claimed to be Louis XVII of France. At the foot of p. 4: "No. 8, Camberwell Green, Le [14] Novembre 1839" (the "14" supplied in MS). With MS signature it the foot of p.4: “Charles Louis, Duc de Normandie”. This name was also used by Naundorff.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Autograph by Richard Howe, Earl Howe

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 6/ff.61r-61v
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  • undated

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph signature, excised from letter to an unidentified recipient.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Autograph fragment by Jeremy Bentham

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 6/f.16r
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  • undated

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph fragment excised from a document, signed, pasted onto a backing paper with MS inscription “Presented by J. Bays, 25th March 1826”.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document by William Howley

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 6/ff.75r-75v
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  • 27 June 1836

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph document addressed from "Lambeth", signed, presenting his compliments to Mr Wainwright and will be happy to see him if he calls at Lambeth next Wednesday a little before eleven o’clock.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document signed by Charles the Bold

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.4r
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  • 1471

    • Part of Old Library

Parchment document in French signed by Charles the Bold. The document is cropped along the right-hand edge and therefore some of the text is missing.

Transcription by Prof. Anne Cobby:
[Je] Conte Charles duc de Bour[gog]ne et de Brabant conte de Flandres vous co<…>
avoir Receu de Nicholas de gondenas n(ost)re argenteur La somme de <...>
Mil livres de quarante gros de n(ost)re [?] de Flandres la livre <...>
par n(ost)re commandement et ordonnance Il Nous a baillie et del<...>
compartant ey nos mains ou mois de Fevrier derenierment passe e<...>
et [put'?] mois de mars y donc en faire n(ost)re plaisir en rerta[..?]><...>
dont ne voulous Icy autre declaracion estre faute . De la qu[..?]<...>
de [?] [?] Nous sommes contens Escript sou[..?] n(ost)re no<...>
xxiiiie jour d[..?] mois de mars Lan mil CCCC soixante unze an<...>
pasques

Later inscriptions added:
Inscriptions in later hands have been added to the document, including "Anno 1803"; "Finis L'ande le 3 mars 1803" and "Louis vanden Bogaerde".

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document signed by John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 6/ff.6r-6v
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  • undated

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph document signed “Lyndhurst”.
Transcription: “Admit the bearer entry to the Gallery of the House of Lords this evening 27th June”.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document signed by Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.14r
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  • 1779

    • Part of Old Library

Document in French signed by Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon.

The document describes the approval of a pension to a retiring officer with rheumatism in the Régiment de Bourbon Dragons under Capitaine La Guiche (Amable-Charles de La Guiche, 1747- 1799).

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document signed by Louis XIII

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.5r
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  • 1624

    • Part of Old Library

Parchment document in French signed by Louis XIII. The document is slightly cropped along the right-hand edge and therefore a small amount of text is missing.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document signed by Louis XIV

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.6r
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  • 1688

    • Part of Old Library

Parchment document in French signed by Louis XIV. The document is slightly cropped along the right-hand edge and in the lower right corner, and therefore a small amount of text is missing.
The document is countersigned by Louis II Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Document signed by Louis XVI

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.7r
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  • 12 December 1791

    • Part of Old Library

Document in French signed by Louis XVI.

A Document addressed to Jean-Baptiste Tourteau of Septeuil, General Treasurer of the Civil List, with an instruction to pay [Duras?] three thousand livres for his appointment as governor at the Château de Saint-Hubert.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Invitation from John Philip Kemble to an unidentified military general

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 6/ff.45r-45v
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  • undated

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph invitation, signed, to an unidentified military general.
Transcription: “My dear General, Pray, command a place in my box on Monday evening. Lord Mountjoy is at Worthing – He has not a Box this year. Ever your faithful servant”.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Abraham Hayward to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 4/ff.75r-75v
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  • undated

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph letter addressed from "Temple", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, saying he is finding it impossible to get dinner on the table much before light, and therefore if he could have the pleasure of his company at some future occasion when no such contretemps is likely to occur.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Alaric Alexander Watts to George Cooke

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 6/ff.73r-73v
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  • 11 April 1827

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph letter addressed from "58 Torrington Square", signed, to George Cooke. Watts writes that he understands from Mr Wakeman of Dublin that Cooke would undertake a plate for the luxury volume of the Literary Souvenir. Asks whether it would be possible to confirm whether he would be willing to do this and if so, when Watts may have the pleasure of an interview with Cooke.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Alexandre Rodenbach to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

  • MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 3/ff.81r-81v
  • Item
  • undated

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph letter in French, signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer. The letter is in two hands, one of a copyist for the main part of the letter, and Rodenbach’s hand for the signature (Rodenbach was blind).

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

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