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Manuscript Sources
BODLEIAN LIBRARY
Clarendon State Papers, vol. 56
MS Carte, 31–33, 47
BOUGHTON HOUSE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Montagu Papers
BRITISH LIBRARY
Additional MS 28044
Additional MS 21947–21951
Additional MS 61486
Additional MS 88923
Harley MS 5277
DORNEY COURT ARCHIVES, BERKSHIRE
Papers of the Palmer family, T15
SURREY HISTORY CENTRE
Brodrick (Midleton) Papers, MS 1248/1
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Baschet Transcripts, PRO 31/3/105–160
C 212/7/1
E 315/377
E156/20
PRO 30/50/32
PROB 1/56
PROB 11/363/469
PROB 11/466/369
PROB 32/53/38SP 78/115–148
SP 84/165/133
SP 89/15/25
WEST SUSSEX RECORD OFFICE
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Unpublished Dissertations
Clayton, Roderick, Diplomats and Diplomacy in London, 1667–1672, University of Oxford, 1995
Marciari-Alexander, Julia M., Self-Fashioning and Portraits of Women at the Restoration Court: The Case of Peter Lely and Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, 1660–1668, Yale University, 1999
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