ACCOUNTS, ice, OF THE BRITIbH ML.SEUW. I7 



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



General Collections of MSS. ---... 104 



Rolls and Charters - - - - - - - -l,.jl() 



Detached Seals and Casts ---_-.. ] jQo 

 Papyri ------.....' 2 



Egerton MSS. --------- 23 



Egerton Charters --------- 3 



Among them are : — 



Portions of a papyrus roll containing the greater part of Homer's " Iliad," Books 

 XXIII. and XXIV., written iiv uncial characters of the 3rd century. 



The " Verba Seniorum," the " Historia Lausiaca," and other early collections of 

 Lives of Saints, in Latin. Vellum. 12th century. 



A metrical paraphrase of Bible History, the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, 

 Passions of Saints, and other pieces in prose and verse ; all in French. Vellum. 

 13th century. Belonged in the 1.5th century to Derby Priory. 



The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer : the copy known as the " Haistwell 

 MS.," from its having belonged in the 18th century to Edward Haistwell. Vellum. 

 15th century. 



Medulla GrammaticcB : a Latin-English Dictionary, attributed to CJalfridus Gram- 

 maticus, a Friar-Preacher of Lynn, co. Norfolk, author of the English-Latin " Promp- 

 tuarium Parvulorum." Vellum. l.')th century. Prcfiented by the Hon. Airs. Way, 

 tuido'W of Albert W<(y. 



Life of St. Katharine of Alexandria, in English ; early 1.5th century. 

 A curious Folding-Almanac, with prognostications and miniatures of the agricultural 

 operations of the several months, accompanied by fore-casts and directions, in English, 

 ■etc. Vellum. 1,5th century. 



Licence from Edward I. for a grant in mortmain to the Augustinian Friars at 

 Shrewsbury ; 129S. Latin. Vellum. With a very fine and well-preserved seal, of 

 a type hitherto unknown. 



A large volume of State Papers and Correspondence relating to the affairs of Scot- 

 land, chiefly in connection with England, and including the proceedings against Mary, 

 Queen of Scots, at the Commissions at York and Westminster in 1.5G8 ; 1449 — 1594. 



Original letters from the French ambassadors in England to Anne de Montmorency, 

 Constable of France, on the projected marriages of Henry VIII. and his daughter, 

 the Princess Mary, etc. ; 1537 — 1539. 



The Sadleir Papers : original correspondence and papers relating to transactions 

 between England and Scotland as carried on by Sir Ralph Sadleir, the English agent, 

 during three several periods, viz., while he was stationed at Berwick and acting as 

 Warden of the Marches, August, 1559 — April, 15G0 ; while he was Treasurer of the 

 Northern Army during the insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and West- 

 morland, November, 1569 — March, 1570 ; and, chiefly, while he was acting as custodian 

 of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Wingfield and Tutbury, 1580 — 1585. Numerous lettei's 

 of Queen Elizabeth, Cecil and Walsingham are included. Four volumes. 



Miscellaneous accompts, payments from the Exchequer and other official papers ; 

 15G9— 1050. 



Register, with assay, of coins struck at the Scotch Mint at Edinburgh, 1594-1598 ; in 

 the hand of David Dickesonn, compter-warder. 



Letters and papers chiefly relating to the Civil War, and including letters, etc., of 

 Charles I., Lord Digby and Lord Jermyn, keys to Royalist ciphers, and articles 

 between George Monck and Lords Kenmure and Reay ; 1033-1055. 



Opinions of foreign physicians and theologians to the effect that Tobacco is not a 

 victual, in answer to a question submitted by the English Government; 1035. 



List of the names of indigent Royalist Military Officers in England and Wales as 

 certified in the Star Chamber; circ. 1003. 



The Privileges of the Baronage of England, by John Selden ; with a copy of 

 Orders of the House of Lords thereupon in 1020-1, certified by the Clerk of the Par- 

 liaments in 1739. In richly tooled morocco binding, with the Royal Arms. Pre- 

 sented by the Earl of Chichester. 



Poems of Sir Thomas Wyat the elder [d. 1541] ; in his own hand, or in that of an 

 amanuensis with autograph corrections. The volume formed the basis of Dr. G. F. 

 Notts edition of WyaV s Poems, 1810, It also contains a metrical version of the 

 Penitential Psalms, in the hand of Sir John Harington [d. 1012], in who.se family it 

 remained down to recent times. 



Poetical Miscellany, including poems by Cartwright, Cleveland, Corbet, Cowley, 

 Herrick, Ben Jonson, Lovelace, Randolph, etc., collected about 1050. 



Autograph Sonnet by John Keats, " This pleasant tale is like a little copse"; 1817. 

 Autograph compositions and letters of Leigh Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph M^aldo 

 Emerson, and Richard Cobden. 



Notes by Rev. Charles Dunster for a projected edition of the Poems of John Milton ; 

 1796-1803. Presented by Messrs. Rivington, the pitblishers. 



Correspondence of the Family of Paston of Paston, co. Norfolk, supplementing 

 the series already in the Museum ; fem^). Hen. VI. — 1597. 



0.74. " C Correspondence 



