ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



" La vie des anciens Peres "; a collection of spiritual tales in French verse. Vellum. 

 13th century. 



The Divina Commedia of Dante. Vellum. Late 14th century. Formerly in the 

 Pinelli Library. 



Commentary on Dante's Divina Commedia, by Giovanni Bertoldi, of Serravalle, 

 Bishop of Fermo, in Latin ; compiled in the city of Constance dui-ino; the sittins; of the 

 General Council, 1 Feb. 1416 — 16 Jan. 1417, at the instance of the Cardinal of Saluces, 

 Nicholas Bubbewith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Robert Hallam, Bishop of Salis- 

 bury. The only other known MS. of this Commentary is in the Vatican Library. 

 Paper. 15th century. 



A collection of charters, principally connected with the Priory of Hatfield Regis, 

 CO. Essex ; 12th — 15th centuries. 



A waxen tablet containing accompts relating to the Abbey of Citeaux. About a.d. 

 1300. 



A common-place book, chiefly of heraldic and historical collections, by Robert Comaundre 

 (vb. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, co. Chester, and chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney. 

 Paper. Tempp. Eliz. and Jas. I. 



("ollection of original letters of royal persons, ambassadors, and other officials, &c., and 

 state papers relating to affairs between England and Scotland, from 1532 to 1544. Ten 

 volumes. They appear to have formed part of the archives of the English Council of the 

 North, at York, where they remained until the reign of Charles I., when James, Duke of 

 Hamilton, removed them to Scotland, and added them to his own library. They were 

 purchased in 1882, with other MSS. of the Hamilton Library, by the Prussian Govern- 

 ment, from which they have now been acquired. 



Correspondence and papers of the family of Barrington, of Barrington Hall, in Essex, 

 1490 — 1713, chiefly on family matters and private business, but including much of 

 political interest and especially a large amount of correspondence relating to the Civil 

 War in 1643 and 1644, Sir Thomas Barrington, the second Baronet, M.P., being a lead- 

 ing member of the Parliamentary Committee for Essex. Among the correspondents are 

 Pym, Hampden, Cromwell, Essex, and other public men of the time. Nine volumes. 



Correspondence and papers of the family of Pelham and of other families allied thereto, 

 viz. : — 



1. Official correspondence and papers of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, 

 covering the whole period of his long career in the public service. He was Secretary of 

 State for the Southern Department, 1724-1746, and for the Northern Department, 1746- 

 1754; irirst Lord of the Treasury, 1754-1756, 1757-1762; and Lord Privy Seal, 1765- 

 1766 ; and died in 1768. His domestic and private corresijondeuce follows, including 

 letters of earlier and contemporary members of his family. 



2. Correspondence and papers, chiefly domestic, of Thomas Pelham, cousin of the 

 Duke of Newcastle, who succeeded in 1768 as second Baron Pelham of Stanmer ; was 

 keeper of the Wardrobe, 1775-1782 ; and was created Earl of Chichester in 1801 ; died, 

 1805. 



3. Correspondence and papers, both official and domestic, of Thomas Pelham, second 

 Earl of Chichester in 1805, who was Surveyor General of the Ordnance, 1782; Chief 

 Secretary in Leland, 1783-4 and 1795-1798; Home Secretary, 1801-1803 ; and Post- 

 master General, 1807-1823. 



4. Correspondence and papers of Colonel Henry Sidney, afterwards Earl of Romney, 

 and of his father, Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, and members of his family ; also 

 letters of members of the family of Holies, of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and others. 



The whole collection has been arranged in four hundred and sixty-three volumes. Pre- 

 sented by the Earl of Chichester. 



Corres[)ondence of Sir William Hamilton, British Envoy at the Court of Naples, 1764 — 

 1800. Eight volumes. 



Register of Proceedings in the Consistory Court of Exeter, from 25 Sept. 1637 to 

 2 Nov. 1638. 



Subscriptions of the clergy of the diocese of Exeter to the Thirty-nine Articles, &c. ; 

 1668 1682. 



Extracts from the Registers of Wills proved in the Consistory Court of Canterbury ; 

 temp. Henry VI. — 1721. Four volumes. 



Transcripts of non-parochial Rom an- Catholic Resisters kept in various parts of Eng- 

 land ; 1727-1837. Presented hj Rev. C. F. R. Palmer. 



Journal of Archibald Menzies, surgeon, R.N., during the voyage of discovery unde'^" 

 Captain George Vancouver; Dec. 1790 — 16 Feb. 1794. 



Collections for a History of the City of Lincoln, by M. Sympson, Senior Vicar of 

 Lincoln Cathedral, 1737. 



Collections for a History of Colchester Castle, by George Buckler. Bequeathed by the 

 Compiler. 



Papers and correspondence of Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe, relating to campanology; 



together with rubbings of inscriptions on bells, &c. Bequeathed by Rev. H. T. Ellacombe. 



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