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Another munificent donation was received from Mr. (now Sir) 

 James Buchanan, who purchased for 5,000Z at Sotheby's auction- 

 rooms the Master's Log of H.M.S. Victory, from Sept., 1805, to 

 Jan., 1806, including entries relating to the battle of Trafalgar. 



Other gifts and purchases include : — 



Twenty-four Greek papyri, nearly all from the archives of Zeno, 

 a Philadelphia official of the 3rd century B.C. 



Fragments of an 11th century martyrology (N. France) and of 

 Edward Grim's Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, &c. 



An original bull of Pope Lucius II to the Abbey of St. Omer, 

 1144. 



Original instructions from Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, to 

 hjr deputies to treat with Henry IV, 1404. 



Letter of Henry VI to the town of Schiedam, 1436. 



Over forty original letters of Sir John Fastolf and other 

 documents from the Paston family archives, 1435-1472. 



Wardrobe-book of Henry VIII, 1511-1512. Also Proceedings 

 at the Coronation of Edward VI, 1547. Both parcliased from the 

 Bridgewater Fund. 



Letter-book of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Ambassador to Spain, 

 1559-1561. 



Collections relating to Martin Frobisher's voyages. 



The Tresham Papers, chiefly of Sir Thomas Tresham, father of 

 Francis Tresham who was arrested on suspicion of complicity in the 

 Gunpowder Plot. The papers were found in 1828 concealed in a 

 wall at Rushton Hall, co. Northt. Presented by T. B. Clarke- 

 Thornhill, Esq. 



Papers of Sir Charles Cornwallis, tempp. Jas. I and Chas. I, 

 transcribed by his son. 



"■ Truth cleared of Scandals," a work of the 17th cent. Quaker, 

 Richard Farnworth. 



Copies by Samuel Pepys, in his cypher, of evidence concerning 

 the birth of the Old Pretender ; also his memorandum to the King 

 about the Navy, 1686. 



A letter-book of Royal letters of William III, 1695-1701. 



The original correspondence between Jonathan Swift and Esther 

 Vanhomrigh (Vanessa). From the Morrison sale. 



Proceedings of the Prize Court of Barbados, relating to capture 

 of French ships, 1744. 



A naval signal-book, 1779, and other nautical MSS. Presented 

 hy the Marquess of Lansdowne. 



Entry-book of correspondence relating to Tan j ore, 1782. 



Entrv-book of correspondence of the Embassy to Tipu Sultan, 

 1783-1784, 2 vols. 



Memoirs by Sir Alexander Cuming concerning his relations with 

 the Cherokee Indians. 



Diaries and other papers of Warren Hastings, supplementary to 

 the large collections already in the Museum. Bequeathed by Miss 

 Marian Winter. 



