ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 7 



Correspondence of Louis Phelypeaux, Comtede Pontchartrain, Minister of State, with 

 French Ambassadors in England, relating to Canada; 1698-1699. 



"Declaration" of James Francis Edward Stuart, styling himself James III,, addressed 

 to all his " loving subjects"; Rome, 23rd December 1743. Signed and sealed; with 

 autograph marginal notes. 



Correspondence and Papersof William Titley, Envoy to Denmark ; 1728 — 176.5. Six- 

 teen volumes. 



Correspondence and Papers of Robert Gunning, Envoy to Denmark and Russia ; 

 1766 — 1776. Eleven volumes. 



Private Journal of F. S. Larpent, Judge Advocate General to the British Forces in 

 the Peninsula; 1813 — 1815. Presented b if F. de H. Larpent, Esq. 



A collection of romantic and other pieces in prose and verse, chiefly by Aragonese 

 poets, ending with stanzas addressed to John II., King of vVragon [14.58 — 1479J. Spanish. 

 Late 15th centui-y. 



"The Heaven of the Mind": an autograph translation by Anthony Munday of a tract 

 in Italian by Isabella Sforza ; 1602. 



" The Crown of Thorns": a religious poem, in twelve books. Perhaps the lost work 

 of that title written by Sir John Beaumont, Bart. (oh. 1627). With a collection of Latin 

 poems by Robert Clarke, an English Carthusian of Nieuport, in Flanders {oh. 1675). 



Feuei'-buch, or the art of making explosives for use in war, Avith drawings and 

 diagrams; 1600. 



Accompt-books of the officers of Ramsey Abbey, co. Huntingdon, 14th-] 6th centuries ; 

 together with a large mass of papers relating to the Commission of Sewers for cos. 

 Huntingdon and Cambridge, and to the fainily of Cromwell, al. Williams, of Hinchin- 

 brook, 16th-18th centuries. Twenty-five volumes. Also about 1,200 charters and 600 

 rolls, chiefly relating to Ramsey Abbey, dating from the 12th century. 



A charter of Covenant between Byland Abbey and Newburgh Priory, co. York, 

 respecting their mutual rights of acquiring lands in Oxdale, Gilling and Yearsley ; temp. 

 Hen. II. Vellum. With five fine seals. 



Seventy-five charters relating to cos. Norfolk and Suffolk, dating from the 15th 

 century. 



Sixty -nine charters relating to various English counties, dating from the 13th century. 

 Presented by Rev. James Crosse. 



Documents relating to the Consistory Court at Chichester; 1592. 



Collections for the history of the county of Cornwall, by Thomas Tonkin ; 18th 

 century. 



Collections for a history of Westminster Abbey, by J. Buswell ; 18th century. 

 Inventory of goods of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; ch-c. 1540. 

 Further papers, in addition to those received in 1886 and 1887, of the family oi 

 Pelham; including miscellaneous letters, 1711—1825, and an accompt-book of work 

 done on the severaT mansions of the Duke of Newcastle, 1714—1720. The collection 

 now amounts to 544 volumes, together with nearly 3,500 charters, &c. Presented by the 

 Earl of Chichester. 



Memoirs of English Engravers, 1550—1800, by Thomas Dodd ; 19th century. Fifteen 



volumes. r> i , 



History of the family of Hungerford, by Rev. F. Brown; 19th century. Bequeathed 



by Rev. P. Hroion. 



Biographical and historical gleanings by Miss Susan M. Stokes; 19th century. Six 



volumes. Present(d by Miss R. A. Webb. p -r, ^ 



Letters of Thomas Wright, F.S.A., 1853—1875; and Correspondence of Prof. 



Owen and B. Dockwray, 1845—1860. Presented by S. G. Perceval, Esq. 



Reports on countries lying between India and China, collected by John Crawfurd ; 



19th century. r, , • i 



Maps and plans of places in San Domingo, &c. : I8th century. Presented by the 



Lords of the Admiraltu. 



•' ■ Edward Scott. 



Department of Oriental Manuscripts. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



A Descriptive List of the Oriental MSS. acquired in the year 1887 has been 

 transcribed for the use of readers. Tlie same MSS. have been entered into the Oriental 

 Register and the Oriental Inventory. , , , i xu 



A Descriptive List of the MSS. acquired in 1888 has been drawn up, and the same 

 MSS. have been added to the Indexes of the special catalogues. ., i , 



The revision of the Turkish Catalogue has been completed, the indexes compiled, and 

 the preface drawn up. The last twenty-three sheets have passed throngh the press, and 

 the catalogue has been publlslied. a i • r^ ^ i i, ^ k«>„ 



The Arabic MSS. acquired since the publication of the Arabic Catalogue haAC been 

 classed, and detailed descriptions have been prepared of twenty-six of them. 



A catalogue of the MSS. containing works of the Karaite Jews, has been commenced 

 and full descriptions of seventy-seven of them have been drawn up. Descri live 



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