Letters and notes of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh
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Content Notes and Catalogue Entries:
- Notes about loadstones entitled 'History of the Royall Society' with references to page numbers (1 sheet); List of questions and notes concerning 'Magnetick operation' and magnetics (1 sheet); Notes in Marsh's hand on Petau's, Opus de doctrina temporum 'Notae quaedam usserianae in margine varioru[m] ejus Authoru[m] scripta' (4 conjugate leaves); Mathematical notes taken by Marsh on a book by Philippe de La Hire (Sections conicae in novem libros distributae, 1658) (2 conjugate leaves).
- Draft or copy letter from Marsh to Lord Chancellor Finch, St Alban Hall, 2 October 1678, thanking him for the favour shown towards him, before his departure for Trinity College Dublin (1 leaf); Draft letter from Marsh requesting detailed information on the 'papist priests and ffriars in y[ou]r parish or parishes' which had been requested by the Lords Justices of Ireland (1 leaf); Mathematical equations on the back of a letter to Marsh from [R.W.] Curtis concerning a meeting of the Royal Hospital Home in 1705 (1 leaf taken from Operum mathematicorum, John Wallis).
- Draft or copy letter from Marsh (when he was a bishop) to 'My Lord' in England about a dispute over church land between himself (3 pages) and a number of Roman Catholic burgesses and a transcript of the letter by Newport B. White, Keeper of the Library, c.1945 (4 pages).
