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  <dc:title>'Family Memorials'</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Genealogical and miscellaneous papers mounted by General E R James in an album, with index. A few items have been removed. Comprises: 
pp 1-13: Coats of arms and pedigrees of James (Van Haestrecht), Renouard, Ott, St Pierre and Donnelly families.  
pp 15-23: Missing.  
pp 25-50: James family notes and transcripts.  
pp 51-61: Ott family portrails from Icones Ottoriorum (photo-zincography from engravings), and original engraving of John Baptist Ott.  
pp 63-71: Renouard family papers, including pedigree and notes of 1752.  
pp 73-87: Captain Peter Renouard (1726-1801): commissions (sign manual of George III); letter written on the battlefield of Minden, 1759; rough roll of soldiers (in which a fragment of his skull was brought home), 1760-; letter written when a prisoner of war; cartel of exchange; letters from German family of Von Essen, with whom he had lodged as a prisoner at Meurs, 1761-1763.  
pp 89-125: Papers and memoranda on Renouard family, 1750-1867, including letters from Dutch cousin, 1789-1792.  
p 127: Order signed by Lord Galway (Marquis de Ruvigny) during Spanish campaign, 1707. 
p 129: Renouard family: act of naturalization, 1704.  
pp 136-137: Marriage contract, Col P J de St Pierre and Marie Renouard, 1696.  
pp 139-151: Ecclesiastical orders, etc., of Rev J H and Rev G C Renouard, 1781-1818.  

pp 153-170: Narrative of David T Renouard of his adventurous voyage in H M S Pandora, in the search for the 'Bounty' mutineers, 1790-1791.  
p 171: List of documents (Renouard wills, settlements, etc.), 1699-1789, 'too bulky for insertion in this book, (...) in the ancient box full of papers'. Dated 1870.  
p 173: Arms of Ott, embroidered in silks on vellum (? 18th century).  
pp 175-193: Notes of history of Ott family in Switzerland and England, by General E R James, 1870-1878.  
pp 199-226: Seven letters from Jean Gaspard Ott, Zurich, to Mrs Peter Renouard (daughter of the Rev J H Ott), 1785-1792.  
pp 227-248: MS passport from the Republic of Geneva to J H Ott, junior, on his departure for England, 1716; copies of letters of introduction for J H Ott, 1716-1717, to persons in France and England, including the Archbishop of Canterbury.  
pp 249-265:  J H Ott, junior: personal and ecclesiastical papers, 1723-1743, including act of naturalization in England, 1733 (p 257).  
pp 267-331: Correspondence of Ott family, including copy letters of Archbishop Wake to correspondents in Switzerland, 1728-1729 (pp 273-285); and letters to Canon and Mrs J H Ott, 1730-1773, from correspondents including Jean Dassier (medallist) and Dr Andr Pestalozzi, brother in law of Canon Ott and grandfather of J H Pestalozzi the educational reformer, to whom letters of 1747 and 1766 briefly refer. 
p 335: Engraving printed on the River Thames showing the 'Frost Fair' in the great frost of January 1739/40. 
p 339: Notes on ancient coins by Jean Baptiste Ott. 
p 341: Extracts from diary of J H (later Canon) Ott, when Secretary to Archbishop Wake, 1721-1723. 
p 343: Order for disembodiment of the Rutland Militia, 1783 (sign manual of George III). 
pp 345-352: Notes from military journal of Col P F de St Pierre. 
pp 353-362: Missing (St Pierre documents). 
p 363: Draft complimentary letter (from Col de St Pierre) to (the Duchess of Austria, wife of the pretender to the Spanish throne) as 'Queen of Spain', 2 November 1708. 
pp 365-369: Missing (portraits, etc.).</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c 18th century</dc:date>
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