DEPARTMENT OF MSS S3 



Minute-book of the Parliamentary Committee for Essex, 

 chiefly relating to sequestrations and assessments ; 1643-1654. 



Summary of the London weekly Bills of Mortality during 

 the Great Plague, 25 Apr.-12 Dec. 1665, drawn up at the 

 time by Col. Jeremy Baynes. 



Letter-book of Sir W. Button Colt, Envoy to Hanover 

 and Zell ; Jan., 1691-May, 1692. 



Register of letters from the Lords Justices of Ireland to 

 the Earl of Rochester, Lord Lieutenant, when he was in 

 England; Apr.-Aug., 1702. 



Letter-books of Richard Hill, Envoy to Turin ; 1703-1706. 

 Two volumes. 



Letter of Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, to the 

 Home Secretary, on the conviction of Col. Despard and his 

 fellow-conspirators ; 1803. 



Letter of William Pitt, without address, explaining his 

 political views and asking for support to defeat Addington's 

 ministry ; 11 Apr. 1804. 



Letter of the Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, on the 

 debate in the House of Lords on Roman Catholic disabilities ; 

 1821. 



Autograph draft of the speech of B. Disraeli in the House 

 of Commons, 15 Nov. 1852, on the death of the Duke of 

 Wellington ; with letters from the same to his sister and 

 others, 1828-1852. 



Elegy on Sir Edward Coke, with an introductory ode to 

 his daughter Mrs. Anne Sadleir and an acrostic epitaph, in 

 the autograph of Robert Codrington, M.A. ; 1634. In the 

 original binding, with emblematic tooling. 



Two letters from John Dryden to Jacob Tonson, the 

 bookseller, 1684, 1697; and a letter from Alexander Pope to 

 the same, 1731. 



Autograph " Journal " of Edward Gibbon, the historian, 

 begun 24 Aug. 1761, and containing particulars of events in 

 his life from his birth, 8 May 1737, to 4 Aug. 1761. Part I. 

 of a series, four of which, ending in Dec. 1764, were acquired 

 in 1895. 



Autograph poem, " Summer Morning," by John Clare, the 

 " Peasant Poet," printed in 1821. Presented by Mr. Charles 

 Dack. 



Four letters from Lord Byron to E. D. Clarke, the 

 traveller, on " Childe Harold," " The Bride of Abydos," etc. ; 

 1812, 1813. 



Autograph MSS. of Tennyson's " Experiments in 

 Quantity," printed in Enoch Arden, etc. ; 1864. 



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