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



The Register of Binding has been entered up for the year. 



The Doubleday Collection of Casts of Seals is in course of being labelled. 



Nine hundred and twenty-four Manuscripts, Rolls, Charters, and Printed Books have 

 been stamped with a total of 5,530 impressions. 



Seven hundred and ninety-one Manuscripts have been folio'd. 



The number of Manuscripts delivered in the Reading Room is 25,618 ; and of those 

 consulted in the Department, 5,579. 



The number of Charters, Rolls, and Seals delivered to readers is 1,477. 



The number of special visitors to the Department during the year is 2,071. 



The numbers of Manuscripts and Documents acquired during the year are — 



General Collection of Manuscripts - - _ _ 305 

 Egerton Manuscripts - - - - - - -29 



Rolls and Charters ------- 324 



Detached Seals --------32 



Among them are the following : — 



Grant by Conrad II., Emperor of the Romans, to the See of Ravenna of the 

 county of Faenza, 1034. Vellum. 



Year-book of law-cases, 28-34 Edw. I. [1299-1306] ; with reports for the years 

 1275 and 1294. Vellum. 



Commentary on the Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Sseculare of Horace ; and the 

 Comedies of Terence. Vellum ; early 14tli century. 



A collection of illuminated Bibles, Psalters, Hours of the Virgin, etc., by French, 

 Flemish, and Italian artists of the 13th-15th centuries. Sixteen volumes ; vellum. 

 Bequeathed hy William Barges, E.^q., A.R. A. 



Guild-book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York, commenced in the 15th 

 century, and containing drawings of that period and a series of coloured portraits 

 of English Sovereigns from Henry VII. to Elizabeth, by different hands of the 

 16th century, continued by later additions doiyu to George III. Vellum. 



Episcopal constitutions and regulations for the diocese of Olmiitz ; circ. 1430- 

 1510. In Bohemian. Paper. Fresented by the Earl of Derby. 



Bird's-eye view, coloured, of the attack by Sir Francis Drake on the Island of St. 

 Jago, in the Cape Verd Islands ; 1585. Vellum. 



Inventory of the goods of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury ; 1575. 

 Vellum Roll. 



Chorographical description of Shires of England, by John Norden, 1595 ; with 

 maps of Essex and Hampshire. Original MS., dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. 

 Paper. 



Final concord relating to property in Stratford-on-Avon, and elsewhere, formerly 

 belonging to William Shakspeare; 1650. 



Register of deeds of property belonging to Augustine Steward of London ; temp. 

 Elizabeth. Paper. 



Correspondence and papers of William Asheby, Ambassador to Scotland, including 

 letters of the English ministers, Burleifrh and Walsinghani, and papers relating to 

 the marriage of James VI. with Anne of Denmark ; 1589. 



Correspondence of James Hay, successively Baron Hay, Viscount Doncaster, and 

 Earl of Carlisle, chiefly in connection with his embassies to Germany, Spain, and 

 France; 1616-1636. In six volumes. 



Metrical version of the Psalms, by Sir John Glanvill, late Speaker of the House 

 of Commons; 1646. Autograph. 



Entry-book of Thomas Arthur, m.d., of Limerick, practising in Limerick and 

 Dublin from 1619 to 1666. 



Visitation -book of Lewis Dwnn, Deputy Herald in counties Carmarthen, Pem- 

 broke, and Cardigan ; 1586-1613. Autograph. 



Pedigree of the family of Weston, of Sutton Place, co. Surrey, drawn up by 

 Sir William Segar, Garter, in 1632. Large vellum roll. Presented by Lt. Colonel 

 Hunter- Weston, F.S.A. 



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