ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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

 General Collection of Manuscripts - - - - 110 



Egerton Manuscripts ---- ---23 



Eolls and Charters ------- 4^243 



Detached Seals and Casts ------ 68 



Among them are : — 



A waxen-boolc, 8| by 6J inches, consisting of seven wooden tablets, coated witb black 

 "wax on both sides, and two covers waxed on the inner sides ; inscribed with documents, 

 written with the stilus in tachygraphic symbols, and with a few memoranda in Greek. 

 Perhaps of the 3rd century. 



A wooden board, 13 by 7 inches, painted white, and inscribed on both sides in ink, 

 ■with thirteen lines from the Iliad, iii. 272-285, probably for the purpose of teaching 

 scholars. Perhaps of the 3rd century. 



The four Gospels, in Greek, with tables of chapters, &c. Imperfect in the Gospel of 

 St. John. Vellum. 9th or 10th century. 



Canons and Hymns of the Greek Church. Paper. Late 14th century. 



Grant from Berenger I., King of Italy, to Odelbert, priest, of Verona, of certain farms 

 in the county of Verona ; 90.5. With a very fine seal. 



" Gesta Cnutonis," or "Encomium Emma;": a history of the reigns of Cnut and his 

 son Harold, dedicated to Queen Emma, wife of Ciiut; with a drawing representing the 

 author offering his book to the Queen. Vellum. 11th century. From the Hamilton I.ibrary. 



Charter of King Edward the Confessor, declaring his confii'mation of grants made to 

 St. Mary's Abbey, Coventry ; after 1043, 



The Dialogues of William Okam, Parts I. and II. Vellum. 15th century. Belonged 

 to the Celestines of Amiens in 1507. 



The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord, taken from St. Bonaventura, and the 

 Harrowing of Plell ; in English. Vellum. 15th century. 



The " Brute " Chronicle, in Englisli, ending in the reign of Richard II. Vellum. 

 15th century. 



Transcript of Instructions and Correspondence of Sir Ralph Sadler, Ambassador to 

 Scotland ; 1539, 1543. 17th century. From the Hamilton Library. 



Co])ics of letters, speeches, &c., from 1545 to 1579, collected as models or precedents, 

 and arranged under various heads. They comprise speeches of Queen Elizabeth and Sir 

 Nicholas Bacon, and letters of Koger Ascham, Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Arch- 

 bishop Grindal, Sir Francis Englefield, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, Sir Nicholas Hacon, 

 Toby Matthew, Secretary Cecil, Sir Thomas AVyat, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Cart- 

 wright, Sir Francis Kacon, and others. Vellum. End of the 16th century. Presented 

 by W. A. Ttjssen Amherst, Esq., M.P. 



Order of Queen Mary's adherents to Sir Nicholas Pclham and other gentlemen of 

 Sussex, to proclaim the Queen, and denouncing " tlie ladie Jane, a quene of a new and 

 pi'etie invencion " ; 19 July, 1553. Presented by the Earl of Chichester, 



Transcripts, made in 1703, of State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of 

 Scots; 1548 — 1586. From the Hamilton Library. 



Transcript of letters oi' Charles I. to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1646. 17th century. 

 From the same Library. 



Portion of Bishop Burnet's Memoirs of the Lives of James and William, Dukes of 

 Hamilton ; with autograph corrections and additions, and a preface differing from that of 

 the edition of 1677. From the same Library. 



Memoirs of the Irish Campaign of 1691, by General Mackay and others. 18th century. 



Contemporary copy of Proceedings In the House of Lords againstSir John Fenwick; 1696, 



Papers concerning the birth and legitimacy of James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old 

 Pretender), son of James II., being part of the collections of George Hickes, D.D., 

 deprived Dean of Worcester ; 1701, 1702. 



Minutes of the meetings of the Commissioners for the Union of the two Kingdoms of 

 England and Scotland ; 1702-3. From the Hamilton Library. 



The History of New England, 1620-1680, by William Hubbard. 18th century. 



Diaries and Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts; 

 1741-1780. 



Diarj- of Peter Oliver, Chief Justice of Massachusetts ; 1776-1780. 



" Tlie Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion to the year 1776," in the form 

 of a letter, by the same ; 1781. 



Furtlier Papers, in addition to those received in 1886, of the family of Pelham, consist- 

 ing chiefly of manorial rentals and court-books, accompts of iron-works in Sussex, and 

 personal and household accompts ; 15th— 18th centuries. (The total number of volumes 



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