84 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Chief Secretary for Ireland (1780-82), Ambassador at Paris 

 (1785-87), Madrid (1788-89), and the Hague (1789-93), Post- 

 master General (1798-1804), President of the Board of Trade 

 (1806-7), etc. Correspondence of his son, George Eden, Earl 

 of Auckland, and of other members of his family, down to 1861, 

 is also included. Sixty volumes. 



Papers and correspondence relating to the Mint and 

 Coinage of England and Ireland, 13.36-1727 ; collected by 

 Edward Southwell, Secretary of the Irish Council. 



Exchequer Accompts and other official papers ; 1516- 

 1656. 



Ordinances of Henry VIII. for the Koyal Household ; 

 1526. Belonged to the Lord Chamberlains, the Earl of 

 Worcester (1508-1526) and the Earl of Arundel (1545- 

 1550). 



Household-book of Queen Elizabeth, with additional 

 matter interspersed relating to the Royal Household during 

 the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI. and Mary. 



Accompt of Sir John Fortescue, Master of the "Wardrobe, 

 for the coronation of James I. and Anne of Denmark; 

 1603. 



Accompt of expenses of George Fry, King's messenger, in 

 Ireland, 1690-1691 ; and in England, 1691-1698. 



Roll of Accompt of Charles Csesar, Treasurer of the Navy ; 

 1713-1714. 



Accompt of Exchequer issues and payments ; 1721-1725. 



Relatione d'Inghilterra, by Card. Bentivoglio, Nuncio in 

 the Spanish Netherlands ; 1609. 



Apology for the political conduct of Robert Cecil, Earl of 

 Salisbury, by Sir Walter Cope ; circ. 1612. 



" The Point of Honour in the Salutation used at sea by 

 striking the flag and lowering the topsail " ; written by Sir 

 Philip Meadows, 1693, and sent to Sir Robert Southwell at 

 the time. 



Notes by Edw. Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, of 

 the Council's procedure and business ; 1692-1695. Two 

 volumes. 



Treatise on the Jewel House, by Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master 

 and Treasurer, including an account of his own services to 

 the Crown during the Civil War, etc. ; 1680. 



" Memoires concernant I'Angleterre," by a French spy ; 

 circ. 1755-1760. 



Journal of the Mission of Rob. Lyall to Radama I. King of 

 Madagascar ; 1827. Presented by the family of the late Sir 

 Richard Owen, k.c.b. 



Address from British and other merchants at Shanghai to 

 Lieut.-Col. Charles George Gordon, on the suppression of 

 the Taiping Rebellion ; 1864. With signatures. Vellum. 

 Beqiieathed by Miss Mary Augusta Gordon. 



Journals of Major-General Charles George Gordon, C.B., 



during 



