S4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



notable variants. The volume belonged in the second half of 

 the IGth cent, to the Ayscough family, not improbably to Sir 

 Francis Ayscough, brother of Anne Ayscough or Askew, the 

 Protestant martyr. 



Expenses for repairs of the Royal palace at Havering atte 

 Bower, 18 Edw. I. Presented by Henry J. Ellis, Esq. 



Letter of James IV. of Scotland to Clement VII., iii. Id. 

 Jan. 1524. Signed. 



Relazione de Inghilterra, by G. Sagredo, tem^). Common- 

 wealth. 



Register of a Baptist Congregation in Kent, 1646-1802. 



Two hundred and eighty-three official letters to Sir William 

 Button Colt, Envoy to Hanover and Zell, 1691-1692. These 

 supplement the collection acquired in 1891. 



Accounts of the Receipts and Issues of the Public Revenue, 

 1710-1758. 



History of the Jesuits of New Spain, by F. de Sebastian, 

 Sacerdote, Vol. II. Presented by Lord Aldenham. 



Narrative by an Officer in the British army of the campaign 

 of Lord Cornwallis against Tippoo Sahib in 1791. 



Letter from Augustin Robespierre, as Representative of 

 the People with the Army of Italy in 1793, warning the 

 French Charge d'Affaires at Genoa of a traitor in his 

 entourage. 



Eleven letters of Admiral Earl St. Vincent, 1797-1801. 

 Some of these contain outspoken criticisms upon naval 

 matters. 



Letter from Robert Fulton, the American inventor of the 

 steamboat and torpedo, to Citizen Birecteur Barras, urging 

 the acceptance of his newly-invented machine for the 

 destruction of the English fleet, 27th Oct. 1798. 



Instructions from Admiral Lord Nelson to the officers 

 under his command as to the tactics to be employed under 

 various circumstances in case of their falling in with the 

 enemy's fleet [probably Sept. 1805]. These instructions were 

 circulated during the campaign which ended in the battle of 

 Trafalgar, and are of great interest in the history of naval 

 tactics. 



Photograph of letter from Gen. Lukas Meyer, Assistant 

 Commandant General, and Schalk Burger, Vice-President of 

 the South African Republic, to the Burgomaster of Pretoria, 

 with reference to the surrender of Pretoria and the removal 

 of the British prisoners of v/ar ; 29th May 1900. Presented 

 by A. Probstheim, Esq. 



Dutch and Portuguese Maps ; late 17th cent. 

 Portions of the translation into Scottish of the first five 

 books of Livy, made for James V. by John Bellenden, 1533. 



