82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer of England, on the negotia- 

 tions for the union and other political affairs ; 1703-1708. 



Correspondence of George Jackson, Judge Advocate, relat- 

 ing to the American rebellion, and to suits arising from the 

 capture, in 1781, of the island of St. Eustachia ; 1776-1777, 

 1782-1786. _ _ ■ 



Papers relating to the passing of an Act in 1830 for affix- 

 ing the royal sign manual to official documents by means of a 

 stamp, owing to the illness of George IV., including letters of 

 the Duke of Wellington, drafts by Lord Chancellor Lynd- 

 hurst, &c. 



Correspondence and papers of the " General Convention of 

 the Industrial Classes," established for the promotion of 

 Chartism, with returns of the state of the labouring popula- 

 tion in various towns, &c. ; 1839. Presented by Edw. Abbot 

 Parry, Esq. 



" Historia politica y secreta del Rey Phelipe V.," etc. : a sum- 

 mary of Spanish history, 1701-1719, with critical reflections. 



" Paradoxes of Defence," etc. : a treatise on the advantage 

 of the short sword over the long rapier, " by George Silver, 

 gentleman, 1599." Dedicated to Robert Devereux, Earl of 

 Essex, and apparently the actual copy presented to him. 



Two political tracts, on the advantages of an alliance with 

 the Netherlands against Spain, and on the expediency of 

 making peace or war with Spain, addressed, in the form of 

 letters, to James I., by John Atkinson, circ. 1603. 



" The art of well governing a people," translated, apparently 

 by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmoreland, circ. 1650, 

 from an Italian treatise by Fulvio Paciano, printed at Siena 

 in 1607. 



" The one-and-twenty Battailes of Yorkes Plantagenet," etc. : 

 a critical account of the War of the Roses by Thomas Gains- 

 ford, with dedication to Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick ; 

 circ. 1620. 



" The Poor Man's Talent": a medical handbook by Thomas 

 Lodge, M.D., the poet, composed about 1623, followed by 

 similar tracts, possibly by the same author ; l7th century. 



" The Art of Limeinge ": a treatise on limning or miniature- 

 painting, by Daniel King, with recipes for making pigments, 

 etc. ; 17th century. 



" Uranus and Psyche " : an anonymous allegorical poem of 

 the l7th century, with an interpretation of the names at the 

 end. 



A volume of Tales and Poems in Irish ; 18th century. 

 Presented by Standish H. O'Grady, Esq. 



Autograph poems, prose pieces, letters, memoranda, etc., of 

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; with single letters of William 

 Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, and John Sterling. 



" The Spell, an extravaganza," with other tales, by 

 Charlotte Bronte, in her own hand ; written in 1834-5. 



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