24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



illustrating the Coronations of English Sovereigns has been 

 exhibited in the King's Library. 



Acquisitions of Special /-nieresi.— Forty-eight English 

 books of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early years of the 

 seventeenth centuries, and one hundred and fifteen foreign 

 Incunabula have been added to the Library during the year 

 1902. 



Among the English books the most interesting are : — 



" A Litill Boke necessarye agenst the Pestilence," printed 

 by William de Machlinia, London, about 1485. 



Lupset, Thomas : " A Treatise of Charitie." Thomas 

 Berthelet, London, 1533. 



*' The Oath of a Freeman of the City of London." A 

 broadside printed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 



" An Hospital! for the diseased." By T. C. 

 Edward White, London, 1579. 



Fetherstone, Christopher : " The Brutish Thunderbolt ; or 

 rather feeble fier-flash of Pope Sixtus the fift against Henrie 

 the most excellent King of Navarre." Arnold Hatfield, 

 London, 1586, 



"History of France. The foure first Bookes." John 

 Windet, London, 1595. An anonymous work which does not 

 appear in the Registers of Stationers' Hall. 



" A Booke of curious and strange Inventions called the 

 first part of iNeedleworkes." William Bailey, London, 1596. 

 In 1591 a book of " New and singular Patternes and 

 Workes of Linnen " was printed by John Wolfe ; this was 

 followed by the present book, of which this is the only 

 known copy. The designs are of Venetian origin. 



Vennard, Richard : "The Right Way to Heaven." Thomas 

 Este, London, 1601. On the last page is a curious coloured 

 drawing of Queen Elizabeth. 



"The Historie of Bevis of Hampton," with sixteen 

 illustrations, printed in 1620. This book, which was 

 formerly in the possession of Mr. Richard Gough, is the only 

 known copy of this edition of the "History of Sir Bevis." 



" Clasmata," by H. W. London, 1626. A book of poems 

 chiefly of a religious character b}^ an unknown author. The 

 only other known copy of this work is in a private Library. 



Forbes, John : "' Gemitus Ecclesiae Scoticanae." Aberdeen, 

 1631. A work by John Forbes of Corse, Professor of 

 Theology at the University of Aberdeen, in favour of 

 Episcopacy in the Church of Scotland. 



