7 
Over the Cases 25 and 26. A large wooden 
drum with lateral opening, made of the trunk of 
a tree : a wooden box, &c. 
SECOND ROOM. 
This room contains miscellaneous objects 
under arrangement. 
THIRD ROOM. 
LANSDOWNE LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
This library, which having been lately acquir¬ 
ed, is not yet finally arranged, consists of 1245 
volumes (exclusive of Rolls and Charters), of 
which 122 contain an ample collection of Lord 
Burleigh’s State Papers, many of them originals : 
more than 50 volumes contain Sir Julius Caesar’s 
papers, all relative to the history of the time of 
Queen Elizabeth and King James I. : 107 vo¬ 
lumes of historical collections of Dr. White 
Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough : a considerable 
number of original royal and noble letters and 
papers : and a great store of historical, juridical, 
biographical, heraldical, and miscellaneous col¬ 
lections*. 
* A new Catalogue of this Library has been just completed, under 
the direction and at the expense of the Commissioners on the Public 
Records of the Kingdom. 
ROOM I. 
ROOM 11. 
ROOM III. 
Lansdowne 
MSS. 
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