12 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Fraements of a copy of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women ; of the end of the 15th 

 century. 



Contemporary copy of the Journal of Sir Richard Torkington, parson of Mulbarton, 

 in Norfolk, of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in the years 15)7, 1518; describing his 

 journey from Rye, through France to Venice, where he remained six weeks, and thence 

 by sea to Palestine ; with account of the city of Jerusalem, and of his return journey by 

 Sicily and Naples to Rome. 



" A Booke of the Trauaile and lief of me, Thomas Hoby, with diuerse thinges worth 

 the notinge:" an autograph account by Sir Thomas Hoby of his travels on the Continent, 

 and notices of public events in England, in the years 1547 to 1564; and principally of 

 his travels in Italy in 1547 -155(', with copies of ancient inscriptions, and epitaphs 

 in churches; in Fi-ance, partly with the Marquess of Northampton, in 1551 and 1552 ; 

 and in Germany and Italy, with his brother Sir Philip Hoby, in 1554. 



Nine volumes of original Spanish State Papers ; Including autograph correspondence 

 of Philip the Second with his Secretary Matteo Vasquez ; his Instructions to Governors 

 of Provinces; autograph letters of the Duke of Parma and Cardinal Granvelle, relating 

 to Flanders ; of Sjianish Ambassadors in Rome, in 1566-1572 ; and of Cardinal Borromeo, 

 in 1580-1582 ; a register of letters of Cardinal Espinosa, in 1565-1572 ; and original 

 letters of Philip the Third to the Princess Margaret, Regent of Portugal, from 1632 to 

 1639. 



Twenty- six volumes of certified Transcripts of Despatches of Spanish Ambassadors 

 and other State Papers, principally selected I'rom the public Archives at Simancas, and 

 also from other public and private collections, by the late Mr. Bergenroth, as material 

 for his proposed History of the Life of the Emperor Chaides the Fifth. The papers 

 generally are of the highest hi.-itorical importance ; and a considerable number relate to 

 Henry the Eighth's divorce and other events particularly connected with England. 



Register of letters to Sir Edward Stradling from various correspondents, including the 

 Marquess of Northampton, the Earl of Pembroke, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Henry 

 Sydney, and others, at the end of the 16th century. They were published by the Rev. 

 J. M. Traherne, in the year 1840. 



A collection of Letters, chiefly original, of Bishop Gardiner, Bishop Hooper, Martin 

 Bucer, Peter Martyr, Theodore Beza, Adrian a Saravia, and others connected with the 

 Reformation in England, in the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries; at which latter 

 period the collection was formed. 



Forty-nine original Letters of John Locke to Nicholas Thoynard, author of the French 

 Harmony of portions of the Scriptures, treating of various subjects of science and litera- 

 ture, as well as of personal affairs, in the yeai's 1678 to 1701 ; with copies of a few other 

 letters of the same correspondence. 



Memorandum-book of Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax ; containing draughts of his 

 poems. 



The volume of copies, by John Caryll, of the poet Pope's Letters to him in 

 the years 1710-1735, referred to by the late Mr. Dilke, in his articles in the 

 Athenteum, and by Mr. Elwin, In the Introduction to his edition of the Works of Pope, 

 to prove the extensive alteration of his correspondence by the poet in his own printed 

 editions. Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart, M.p. 



A volume of draughts and copies of accounts, letters, law papers, evidences, &c., relat- 

 ing to property of the family of Ferrers, of Feniton and Otteiy St. Mary, in Devonshire, 

 temp. Henry VII. Presented by Sir Walter Charles Trevelyan, Bart. 



Edward A. Bond. 



Oriental Manusckipts. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



Arabic Catalogue. — An Index of Matters, a Conspectus Codlcum, and the Preface 

 have been prepared. 



Sheets 9 T — 10 P have been carried through the press. 



The Supplement, a folio volume of 536 pages, containing descriptions of 861 Manu- 

 scripts, as well as Indices and Tables extending to the entire Catalogue, has been 

 published. 



Syriac Catalogue. — Two Appendices have been prepared, viz.. A., Notes and Additions 

 to Rosen's Catalogue ; B., Descriptions of the Mendaitic Manuscripts of the Taylor 

 Collection. 



A Conspectus 



