S2- ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Treatises on physiognomy and on poisons, in Latin, by 

 Petrus de Abano, of Padua ; written in Italy, 15th cent. 

 Presented by Francis W. Dymond, Esq. 



Treatise, in Italian, on Italian and Spanish currency and 

 the means to restore that of Naples, by Thomas Oliver ; 1508. 



Five general Portolani, 1473-1623, and two detached maps 

 of the coasts of Europe, 1520 and 1570 ; executed in Italy by 

 Grazioso Benincasa, Georgio Sideri, Vesconte de Maiollo, 

 Diego Homem, and others. 



" The Booke of the sea carte, called the Butter," &c. : 

 sailing directions between the British Islands and the Con- 

 tinent from Ushant to the Elbe, with other nautical matter 

 and four coloured maps ; late 16th cent. 



Chronicle of Scotland to 1385, in Latin, by John Fordun ; 

 IStli cent. Apparently the archetype of the MS. used by 

 Skene as the basis of the printed text. 



Register, in Latin, of proceedings at Rome in the suit of 

 Henry VIII. for divorce from Catherine of Aragon, 1529-1533. 

 A transcript from the original in the papal archives, 1778. 



Register of certificates in causes before the Star-Chamber ; 

 1593-1595. 



Documents connected with projects for the marriage of 

 Charles, Prince of Wales, with the Infanta of Spain, and 

 subsequently with Henrietta Maria of France ; 1602-1625. 



OfRcial correspondence and papers of Robert Long as 

 Secretary of State to Charles II., chiefly letters of Residents 

 and other royalist agents abroad; 1649-1654. Included is an 

 account of the sale of the jewels of Charles at Amsterdam, 23 

 August, 1650. 



Correspondence of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, President 

 of Munster, chiefly with the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland ; 1660-1674. Three volumes. 



Correspondence and papers of George Stepney, Envoy to 

 Berlin in 1698 and to Vienna in 1702-1704 ; 1677-1707. Two 

 volumes. 



Correspondence of Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Envoy 

 in Flanders, chiefly relating to the Treaty of Utrecht and 

 including letters of Lord Bolingbroke, Secretary of State ; 

 1711-1714. 



Roll of accompt of T. Spence, paymaster of the Royal 

 Bounty to widows of military ofiicers ; 1733-1735. Presented 

 by Charles Dalton, Esq. 



Letters of W. Pitt, Earl of Chatham, on the character of 

 Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, the battle of ZorndorflP, &c., 

 and of H. Fox, Lord Holland (5), and W. Windham (2) : 1755- 

 1791. 



Letter-book of Henry Shirley, Charge d'Aff*aires at Moscow 

 and St. Petersburg ; 1767-1768. 



