ACCOUNTS, kc, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I3 



James I., 24tli May 1618, gave rise among English divines to a long and violent con- 

 troversy on the due observance of the Sabbath. The " Book of Sports" was republished 

 by Charles I. in 1633, but in 1644 it was suppressed by the Long Parliament, and all 

 copies of it ordered to be publicly burned. 



Many other English works of interest printed during the 16th and 17t]i centuries 

 have also been acquired. Among them ai'e : " A Treatise concernynge the diuisloii bctweene 

 the spiritualtie and temporaltie.'' printed at London by 'J'homas Berthelet about 1529; 

 " A Werke for housholders," by llichard AVhitford, printed at London by Wynkyn de 

 Worde, in 1533 ; Richard Smyth's " Confutation" of Archbishop Parker's " Defence of 

 the Doctrine of the Sacrament," printed abroad, probably at Douai, about 1550; "A 

 copye of a verye fyne and wytty letter sent from Lewes Lippomanus, Byshop of Verona," 

 1556 ; " The seditious and blasphemous oration of Cardinal Pole," an exceedingly rare 

 tract, printed in London about 1550; Munday's '' English Roman Lyfe," London, 1590; 

 "The Disposition or Garnishmente of the Soule," Antwerp, 1596 ; "Oh read ouer D. 

 John Bridges, for it is a worthy worke,'' a well-known tract of the Martin Marprelate 

 controversy, secretly printed at East Molesey in 158H; Robert Some's " Godly Treatise," 

 London, 1589, 4to. ; John Penry's " Answere to Master Some," clandestinely printed, and 

 unknown to bibliographers; "True Relations of sundry Conferences," 1626, also secretly 

 printed, and hitherto undescribed ; " A Confession and Protestation of the Eaith," printed 

 probably at Leyden in 1616, and attributed to Henry Jacob, the first minister of an 

 Independent congregalion in England ; " The copie of a letter written from Paris 

 declaring the maner of the execution of Francis Ravaillart that murdered the French 

 King," a contemporary account of the execution of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry IV., 

 1610; John Penry's " Historic of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, &c., applied to the Pi elacy. 

 Ministerie, and Church-assemblies of England," secretly printed in 1609; " Newes from 

 Italie," 1619, containing an account of the earthquake which destroyed Piurn in the Valtel- 

 lina; Darcie's " Honors True Arbor; or, the Princely Nobilitie of the Howards," 1625; 

 "The Queene's Welles: that is a treatise of the nature and virtue of Tonbridge Water," 

 written by Lodowicke Rowzee, and published in 1632 ; " Lawes and Ordinances of Warre 

 for the better government of His Maiesties Army Royall in the present expedition for 

 the Northern Parts," printed at Newcastle in 1639; and "Observations manifesting the 

 conveniency and commodity of Mount-Piety es," London, 1661, believed to be the earliest 

 English work on pawnbroking. 



Besides the foreign books previously mentioned, the following scarce works have also 

 been acquired : — Vergerius' tract " De ingcnuis moribus," printed probably by Georg 

 Lauer at Rome about 1475; " Legenda de la seraphica uergine sancta Catherina da 

 Siena," printed about 1477 ; " Feldtbuch der Wundtarzney," printed at Strassburg in 

 1517, and illustrated with many curious engravings of surgical operations; " La Grande 

 et Merueilleuse et trescruelle oppugnation de la noble cite de Rhodes," by Jacques de 

 Bourbon, first edition, printed at Pads in 1525 ; the original Latin text, printed at 

 Wittenberg in 1527, of the " Instruction of the Inspectors to the Parish Priests in the 

 Electorate of Saxony," drawn up by Melanchthon ; Calvin's " Christians Religlonis 

 Institutio," printed at Basle in 1536, the eaidiest edition known of this celebrated work; 

 two works in the Bohemian language on the Religious Doctrines of the Moravian 

 Brethren, printed at Leutomischl in 1523, and of the utmost rarity, as are all Protestant 

 Bohemian books, owing to their having been sought for and destroyed in the Thirty 

 Years' War; Paprocki's " Ogrod Krolewsky," printed at Prague in 1599, and 

 said to be the rarest of all Paprocki's rare works, which still remain most valuable mate- 

 rials for the history of Poland and the adjacent states ; " Adagiales ac Metaphoricae 

 Forraulaj," by Juan Ruiz de Bustamente, printed at Saragossa in 1551, a very rare col- 

 lection of Proverbs in Latin and Spanish used by Cervantes in " Don Quixote ; " Aker- 

 laecken's " Genealogien der Hertogheu van Gelre, Gulick, Cleve, Berghe cnde Graven 

 vander Marck," printed in 1627, and illustrated with full-length portraits and coats of 

 arms illuminated in gold, silver, and colours; Aldenburg's " Brassillische Relation inn 

 America gelegen," with copper-j^late engravings, printed at Augsburg in 1624; and "Die 

 Balearen in Wort und Bild geschildert," in seven folio volumes, Leipzig, 1869-84, illus 

 trated with numerous coloured plates, maps, plans, and woodcuts, and of which but a very 

 small number of copies were printed at the expense of the Archduke Louis Salvator of 

 Tuscany, who himself edited the work. 



The "Records of the Court of Commission of Alabama Claims," 1882-85, in 153 

 volumes. This series is in continuation of the records of the previous Court which sat for 

 distribution of the indemnity awarded by the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva to the 

 sufferers by tlie depredations of Confederate cruisers during the Civil Wai-, and of which 

 a complete set was acquired by the Museum in 1886. Presented bi/ the Government of 

 the United States of America. 



The only additions of antiquarian interest made to the collection (if iMusic are: Merulo's 

 " Primo Libro de Madrigali a tre Voci," printed at Venice in 1580; Gabrieli's " Libro 

 primo de Madrigali a tre Voci," Venice, 1582 ; Marenzio's "Madrigali a quattro Voci," 

 Venice, 1603; and " Sacrarum Cantionum (vulgo hodie Moteta vocaut) qulnquc et sex 

 Vocum Libri V.," printed at Antwerp in 1555. 



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