82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 



The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer; early 15th 

 cent. Vellum. 



Cdllection of Romance and English History, in Latin, by 

 John Strecche, Canon of Kenilworth Priory; circ. 1422, 

 Vellum. 



Romance of Aspremont, in French ; 13th cent. Vellum. 



Romance of Partonopeus de Blois, translated from the 

 French into English verse ; late 15th cent. Vellum and 

 paper. 



Original Wardrobe-book of Queen Eleanor, 1st wife of 

 Edward I., for 1289-1290. Vellum. 



Three original Wardrobe-books of Edward I. ; (a) for 

 1299-1300, (b) for 1303-1304, and (c) for 1303-1305. 



Accompt of Master John Walewayn, King's Escheator 

 south of the Trent, for 1316. Vellum roll. 



Accompt of William Foister, Treasurer of the household of 

 Anne, widow of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 

 at Writtle, co. Essex, for the year 1463. Vellum roll. 

 Three State letters on Scottish affairs : 

 (a.) David Beaton, Cardinal Archbishop of St. Andrews, to 



Francis T. of France ; 5 Oct. 1545. 

 (6.) Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen 



of Scots, to Charles IX. of France ; 6 May 1566. 

 (c.) Jacques Bochetel de La Foret, French Ambassador to 

 England, to Catharine de' Medici, Queen Dowager 

 of France ; 29 March, 1567. 



Original Wardrobe-book of Queen Elizabeth, for 1566-1567. 

 Vellum roll (in book form). 



Minute-book of the Council of the North at York ; 1594- 

 1606. 



Holograph parliamentary journal by Walter Yonge of 

 Colyton, M.P. for Honiton ; 1627-1642. 



Journal of the Civil War, 1642-1649, kept by John Syms, 

 Incumbent successively of Sheepstor, Dean-Prior and Buck- 

 land-in-the-Moor, co. Devon. 



Original warrant signed by Lord Essex, for payment to 

 Sir E. Boys, Captain of Dover Castle ; 24 Aug. 1642. 



Original entry-book of stores delivered out of the Ordnance 

 Office for the Parliamentarian forces, 1646-1650. 



Documents relative to the mission of Henri de Taillefer, 

 Sieur de Barriere, Agent of the Prince de Conde at London ; 

 1652-1656. French. Copied in May, 1895, from the Conde 

 papers at Chantilly. Presented by Prof. S. R. Gardiner. 



Journal of John Stevens, Lieutenant in the Grand Prior's 

 regiment in the Irish Army of James II., describing the 

 battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, and the first siege of 

 Limerick; 1688-1691. 



Parliamentary journal kept by the Hon. Philip Yorke ; 

 temp. Geo. II. 



