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In this Room is a Series of Englijh Medals, be¬ 
ginning with William Rufus , and reaching down 
to the prefent Times. 
BIBLIOTHECA HARLEIAN A. II. 
This Room contains another Part of the Harleian 
Manufcripts, treating chiefly of philofophical, hi- 
florical and philological Subjects, in a Variety of 
Languages, and by many different Authors. The 
Public has been gratified with a Catalogue of this 
Colledtion, to which, without enlarging any more 
on the Subjedt, I refer them, if they Ihould be cu¬ 
rious to know the particular Contents. 
HARLEIAN A. III. 
CHARTS et ROTULI. 
This fourth Room of the Department contains 
the Harleian Colledtion of original (or very ancient 
and authentic Copies of) Charters, Adts of Parlia¬ 
ment, Deeds, Warrants, Rolls, and other Inftru- 
ments in Writing, relative to a great Variety of 
public Tranfadtions at home and abroad. Thefe 
are efteemed very valuable, and are carefully depo- 
fited in Cabinets, and locked up; but there is a 
large Manufcript Catalogue referring the Curious 
to the Particulars. 
In this Room is a Series of French Medals, be¬ 
ginning with thofe of Pharamond. It is to be noted, 
that the Medals may, by turning a Button, be 
viewed both in Front and Reverfe. 
In the fifth Room is carefully preferved in feve- 
ral fmall Cabinets, Sir Hans Sloane’s Colledtion of 
Medals. Their Number, as 1 have been credibly 
informed, is upwards of twenty thoufand; but, as 
they 
