24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Statutes of the twenty-second year of King Henry VIII. 

 Thomas Powell, London, 1531. 



Erasmus : " Paraphrase upon ye Epistle of S. Paule unto 

 Titus." John Byddell, London^ about 1535. 



" The Decree for Tythes to be payed in London." Thomas 

 Berthelet, London, 1546. 



Bush, Paul, First Bishop of Bristol : " A brefe Exhortation 

 set fourthe to one Margarete Burges wyfe to Jhon Burges, 

 clotheare of Kyngeswode, in the Countie of Wilshere." John 

 Cawood. London, 1556. 



Wermueller, Otto : " A Spirituall Pearle. Translated into 

 English by Miles Coverdale." W. Leake, London, 1560. 



Bale, John : " A new Comedy or Enterlude concernyng 

 the lawes of Nature, Moises and Christe." Thomas Colwell, 

 London, 1562. 



Mascall, Leonard : " The jfirst booke of Cattell." John 

 Wolfe, London, 1587. 



Sidney, Sir Philip : " The Defence of Poesie." Printed 

 for William Ponsonby, London, 1595. Two editions of this 

 work were printed in the year 1597. One, already in the 

 British Museum, under the title of " An Apologie for Poetrie," 

 printed without authority by Henry Olney ; and the present 

 authorized edition published*^ by William Ponsonby, of which 

 only one other copy is known. 



"A moste pythie Epistle to anymate all trew Christians. 

 Translated out off fFrench by Robert Pownall." Geneva, 

 1596. 



" A verie 'perfect Discourse and Order how to know the 

 age of a Horse. By L. W. C." Thomas Pavier, London, 1601. 

 The only known copy. 



" Christes Bloodie Sweat. By J. F.," 1616. Attributed 

 to Joseph Fletcher, Rector of Wilby, Suffolk. 



A collection of broadsides, single - sheets, and folio 

 pamphlets, consisting of proclamations, legal documents, 

 trials and political tracts relating to the history of Scotland 

 between the years 1644 and 1700. 



The Italian original and a French translation of a book 

 by the Abbe Prime, writing under the assumed name of 

 " II Conte San Maiolo," entitled " Historia della" Guerra 

 d'Olanda." Paris, 1682. This book, which contains an 

 account of the secret articles of the Treaty of Dover, May, 

 1670, was suppressed at the instance of Viscount Preston, the 

 English Ambassador to France. 



Incunabula. — Two interesting Incunabula which have 

 been presented to the Library are described below among the 



