S2 ACCOUNT^, ETa, OF THE BRITISH MUSEU.^L 



foreign princes, 1591-2 ; Register of royal warrants, instruc- 

 tions, etc., relating to Ireland, 1603-23 ; Lists of Benefices 

 in England and Wales, with the names of incumbents, date 

 of institution, etc., te'mp. James I. — Charles I. ; Report of a 

 commission on the Ordnance, 1619; Letter-book of Dudley, 

 Lord Carleton, when A.mbassador to the United Provinces, 

 1627 ; Original Notes by Sir John Borough of the proceedings 

 of the English and Scotch Commissioners at Ripon, 1640 ; 

 Proceedings of English Parliamentary Comnjissioners at 

 Edinburgh, 1648; Lists of the Royal Household, Justices of 

 the Peace, etc., 166 1 ; Admiralty Warrants, 1660-85; Victualling 

 and rating of the Navy, 1661-1700 ; Exports and Imports of 

 the City of London, etc., 1663-77 ; and a Catalogue of the 

 Cotton Library, circ. 1640, previous to its present arrangement. 



Other sales were the Bromley-Davenport Sale in May, at 

 which a " Speculum Sacerdotale," in English, 15th cent., a 

 volume of presentations to benefices by the Commissioners of 

 the Great Seal, 1649-54, and a volume of the Correspondence 

 of English Plenipotentiaries at the Hague with the Secretary 

 of State, 1709-10, were acquired ; and the Harrowby Sale, 

 when nineteen volumes of State Papers of the 18th cent, 

 were secured for the Museum. 



By private treaty the Museum has acquired a valuable 

 collection of documents from the muniment-room of Aston 

 Hall in Cheshire, comprising in all 5,731 charters and rolls, 

 together with 27 volumes of papers. About 2,000 of the 

 charters relate to the Priory of Nuneaton in Warwickshire 

 from its foundation cii^c. 1153-5 down to its dissolution in 

 1539, and are of special value as very little has hitherto been 

 known of the history of this religious house. The remainder 

 mostly relate to Chester and the Cheshire estates of the 

 Aston family from the 12th century downwards and to lands 

 in Lancashire at or near Liverpool and elsewhere, but many 

 other counties are also represented. 



Other more or less important [^acquisitions are the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Epistles and poems of St. Gregory Nazianzenus, in 

 Greek. 10th cent. 



Works of Dionysius the Pseudareopagite, with scholia, 

 in Greek. 10th cent. 



Homilies of St. John Chrysostom to the people of Antioch, 

 in Greek. 11th cent. 



Evangeliarium, in Greek. Written in A.D. 1008 by 

 Theophanes, a monk of the Iberian Monastery on Mount 

 Athos. 



Homilies by St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom, in Greek. 

 11th cent. 



Gospels, in Greek. Early 12th cent. 



Florilegium of sacred and profane authoi^s, in Greek. 

 Written A.D. 1198. 



Evangeliarium, in Greek. 12th-13th cent. 



Menaeum for November-December, in Greek, loth cent. 



