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and private correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley from 

 his appointment to be Governor-General of Bengal in 1797 

 down to his death in 1842, and includes a large number of 

 confidential letters from George IV., the Duke of Wellington, 

 Canning, Dundas, Lord Liverpool, S. Perceval, Lord Gren- 

 ville, Peel, Lord Grey, Lord Melbourne, and many other 

 leading politicians of the time. The collection was reserved 

 when the rest of Lord Wellesley's papers, which are of a less 

 intimate character and relate almost exclusively to his 

 government of India, were presented to the Museum in 

 1842. 



The official correspondence of the well-known diplomatist 

 Charles Whitworth, first Lord Whitworth, in fifty volumes, 

 has also been acquired. It covers the years 1702-1725, 

 during which he was British representative at Ratisbon, 

 Vienna, Moscow, Berlin, and the Hague, and at the Congress 

 of Cambray, and was chiefly carried on with successive 

 Secretaries of State and English and foreign ministers 

 abroad. 



The principal bequest received during the year was from 

 Mr. Robert Pearson Brereton, of Oundle. It consists of 

 his collections in twenty-threa volumes relating to the 

 churches of north Northamptonshire and Rutland and to 

 the church-towers of Somerset, and includes, besides notes 

 and an incomplete architectural history of the buildings, 

 nearly eight hundred permanent photographs taken by 

 himself. 



Among other additions, by purchase, donation, or bequest, 

 are the following : — 



Gospels, in Greek, with illuminated head-pieces ; late 

 10th cent. 



St. Augustine, " De opere monachorum," etc., three quires 

 of a MS. in Caroline minuscules of the 9th cent. 



Breviary, pars hiemalis, of Paris use, with illuminated 

 initials, circ. 1300. Belonged to the College de Clermont 

 at Paris. 



Vitse Patrum, and other lives of saints, written in 

 Germany ; early 14th cent. 



A volume of English Metrical Romances, including King 

 Richard, Bevis of Hampton, Florence and Blanchefloure, 

 The Battle of Troy, Amys and Amylion, etc. ; circ. 1400. 



Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : the " Norton " MS., on 

 vellum ; 15th cent. 



Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with Lydgate's Story of 

 Thebes : the " Ingilby " MS., on paper; 15th cent. 



Breviary, of Ambrosian use, with coloured initials, written 

 by Antonio de' Uberti, in the diocese of Milan, in 1402. 



Gospels, in Slavonic, with prefaces, etc. ; 16th cent. 



