ACCOUNTS, &.C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 5 



Four hundred and twenty-one Manuscripts have been folio'd. 



The number of Manuscripts delivered in the Reading Room is 27,767, and of those 

 consulted in the Department, 9,012. 



The number of Charters, Rolls, and Seals delivered to readers is 2,214. 



The number of Students working in the Department during the year is 2,933. 



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



General Collection of Manuscripts - - - - 180 

 Egerton Manuscripts- _ - _ . _ _ 2 



Rolls and Charters - 689 



Detached Seals and Casts ---_-_ 1,045 



Among them are : — 



" Secretum Philosophorum '" : a compendium of Natural Philosophy, etc., with 

 diagrams. Vellum. Early 14th century. 



"Vitas Fratrum": anecdotes of St. Dominic and the Dominicans, by Gerard de 

 Frachet, Prior Provincial of Provence. Vellum. 14th century. 



Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin, finely illuminated with miniatures and borders, by 

 French artists. Vellum. Early 15th centuiy. 



Chaucer's treatise on tlie Astrolabe. Vellum. 15th century. 



Hampole's " Prick of Conscience," and the Gospel of Niccdemus, in English verse. 

 Paper, loth century. 



" Le Chasteau Perilleux": a treatise on religious life; "Le Purgatoire Saint 

 Patrice," etc. Vellum. I5th century. 



A large collection of Court-rolls and Charters relating to the counties of Kent, Sussex, 

 Surrey, Hants (Alton, Holy bourne, Petersfield, and Mapledurham), and Somerset. 

 Vellum. 13th — 15th centuries. 



Liber Valorum of Crown lands; 1541-1542. Paper. 



Accounts of the collectors of subsidies in various parts of England; 1555-1570. 

 Paper 



Letter-book of correspondence of Sir John Holies (created Baron Haughton ia 1616, 

 and Earl of Clare in 1624) ; 1598-1617. 



Letter-book of John VVallis, d.d., Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and 

 decipherer of political correspondence for the Government, containing originals and copies 

 of ciphered political letters, with decipherings ; 1651-1701. 



The rough minute-book for the Journal of the House of Lords; Apr. — Dec. 1660, 



Correspondence of the family of North, Barons North and Earls of Guilford ; 1660- 

 1728. Two volumes. 



Papers of the Hon. Roger North, comprising draughts and collections for his " Lives of 

 the Norths"; his autobiography ; copies and abstracts of political and legal papers of 

 Lord Keeper Guilford ; and his own political and social essays and various works on 

 Accounts, Etymology, Music, Perspective, Building, Natural Philosophy, and scientific 

 subjects. Forty-nine volumes. 



A collection of papers chiefly relating to the English drama, temp. Henry VII. — 1778 ; 

 formed by John Payne Collier. Vellum and Paper. 



Common-place book of Gabriel Harvey. Early 17th century. 



Discourse of Witchcraft by Edward Fairfax, of Fewston, co. Fork, giving the 

 experiences of his own family; 1621-1623. 



Poems of William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle, with autograph corrections; 

 circ. 1645. 



Letters on literary matters addressed to Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury, by Henry 

 Stubbe and others ; 1656-1675. 



Original essays and pieces In prose and verse, by Samuel Butler, the author of 

 " Hudlbras." Two volumes. 17th century. 



Medical common-place book of John Locke; circ. 1660. 



" The Compleat English Gentleman" : the original MS. of an unpublished work by 

 Daniel Defoe ; circ. 1729. 



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