A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714

Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732) was a civil servant and book-collector, best remembered for his detailed diary. These volumes, first published in 1857, contain Luttrell's diary, which provides a rich and valuable historical account of contemporary political events of the late seventeenth century. Volume 5 covers the period 1701-5.