1903.) ROSENGARTEN—EARL OF CRAWFORD’S MS. HISTORY. 397 
THE EARL OF CRAWFORD’S MS. HISTORY IN THE 
LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN PHILO- 
SOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
BY JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN. 
(Read December 18, 1903.) 
In the Library of the American Philosophical Society there are 
four folio MS. volumes, in old binding with clasps, but with noth- 
ing on the Library records to show how they ever got there. 
The 1st volume is labeled ‘‘ Account of Some Campaigns of the 
British Army from 1689 to 1712, and Journal of a Campaign under 
Prince Eugene on the Upper Rhine, and Miscellaneous Papers.’’ 
The 2d and 3d volumes, ‘‘ Journal of a Voyage from the Thames 
to Russia, and of Campaigning with the Russian Army, 1738-9.”’ 
The 4th volume, ‘‘ Journal of a Campaign with the Russian 
Army against Turkey, 1739.”’ 
They are all in admirable condition, in uniform clerkly clear 
thandwriting, and with a large number of fine maps, executed by 
Henry Képp by order of the Earl of Crawford, and inscribed to 
the King of England, Lord Loudoun and other noted persons high 
in command in the British army. 
The 1st volume contains: 
“ast. ‘*A Short Treatise of Fortification and Geometry,”’’ pp. ‘33. 
2d. “A Method of Discipline proposed for the Behaviour of a 
Regiment of Foot upon action,’’ pp. 29. 
3d. ‘*An Account of the most remarkable Transactions which 
happened in the Campaigns I made from the Year 1689 to the Con- 
clusion of the Peace of Ryswick in 1697.’’ It begins as follows: 
‘‘The Regiment I served in is very well known by the Title it 
bears of the Royal Regiment of Foot in Ireland, from which Regt. 
I may without Vanity say our British Infantry had the Ground- 
work of their present Discipline.’’ It describes Schomberg’s Irish 
campaign of 1689, pp. 12; then the campaigns of 1694-5-6-7, 
pp- 14. 
Then, 4th, The Campaigns of 1702-12, pp. 63. 
Then, 5th, comes ‘‘ A Journal and Remarkable Observations dur- 
ing Three Campaigns made by a friend to the Trade of War, in 
Three Volumes. Vol. First: Journal of a Campaign made with the 
Imperial Army under the Command of Prince Eugene of Savoy on 
