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ColleGions for the Fdiffory of Buckingham/fhire. 
1804. ] 331 
Io the. Editor of the Montbly Magazine. § 32. Extracts of Wills proved at Aylef- 
SIR, ury. 
MONG the counties which yet 
A want a legitimate hiftorian is that 
of Buckingham. ‘The colleétions for it 
are not only numerous but acceffible ; 
and in one inftance, at leaft, a very large 
body of materials are brought together ; 
I allude, Sir, to the manufcripts of the 
celebrated Browne Willis, now preferved 
in the Bodleian Library at Oxford ; of 
which the following entirely relate to 
Buckinghambhire : 
Folio. 
1. Inftitutiones Co. Bucks, ex Regif- 
tris Linc. cum Colleétionibus Parochial. ad 
eundem com. {pectant. f 
2. Collections regarding Buckingham- 
fhire. 
3. Extracts from the Domefday Survey 
relating to the fame. : 
4. Account of the Arms and Infcrip- 
tions in Aylefbury and Afhendon Hun- 
dreds. 
5- Mifcellanea Regiftrorum Abbat "de 
Mifflenden, &c. 
6. Epitaphs in Bucks Hundred, &c, 
7. Extracts from the Regifters of Luf- 
field, &c. 
8. Pedigrees of Buckinghamfhire Fa- 
. Mnilies. 
g. About two hundred Lifts of Mem- 
bers of Parliament, chiefly collected from 
Prynne. 
10. Epitaphs and Arms in the Churches 
of Defborough Hundred. 
tr. Extraéts of Charters and Deeds of 
Snellfhall Priory, Totenhoe, alias Tat- 
nall, &c. &c. 
12. Terriers and Inftitutions Co. Bucks 
13- Notitia Ecclefiaftica, being fome 
fhort Extraéts of the Parithes in the Arch- 
deaconry of Bucks. 
14. Extracts of Wills in the faid Arch- 
deaconry. 
15. Pedes Finium Co. Bucks. 
17. Extraéts from the Tower Records. 
22. Epitaphs, Arms, Jnfcriptions, &c. 
: the Hundred and Deanery ot Bucking- 
am. 
23. Epitaphs, Arms, &c. in Stoke 
Hundred. 
_ 24. Epitaphs, Arms, Infcriptions, &c. 
in Newport Hundred. 
27. Extracts of Patents for the County 
of Bucks. 
2%. Another volume of Pedes Finium 
(wide No. 16.) 
30. Survey of the County in 1620. 
31. Lift of Voters for the County of 
Buckingham, 1713. 
33- Epitaphs, Arms, &c. in Burnham 
Hundred. 
34. The fame in Coltflow Hundred. 
52. b, Collection of Papers relating to 
Fenny Stratford Chapel. © 
Quarto. 
g- Copy of the Domefday Survey in the 
Hundreds of Bucks, Coltflaw, and New- 
ort. 
° 10. Bucks Hundred, compleated. 
34+ 7 Buckingham Hundred, 3 volumes 
: 2 E (printed.) 
37. Mifcellanea. 
38. Perfone Ecclefiarum in Decanat.” 
Murfley, Wendover, and Waddelden. 
39. Loofe papers relating to the Hun- 
dred of Buckingham. 
Colleétions for Newport Hundred, 
A 3 Vols. 
43. Colle&tions for the Hundred of 
Cotilow, 2 Vols. ‘ 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
INTRODUCTION to the sTUDY Of AR- 
CHEOLOGY, or the KNOWLEDGE of 
ANTIQUE MONUMENTS. From ihe 
FRENCH of A. L. MILLIN, CONSER- 
VATOR of the MUSEUM Of ANTIQUI- 
TIES in PaRis, Ge. Ge. 
[Concluded from page 226, No. 113.] 
HE aim of ftudy is to enhance 
knowledge and to fhun errors. This 
is not to be attained by the archeolozift 
without great attention and prudence.— 
Several monuments are injured by the 
air, the humidity of which is attracted by 
their faline particles. ‘The marble of Pa- 
ros has ceafed to be legible ; and a difco- 
very has recently been made of feveral in. 
fcriptions, the letters of which are almoft 
entirely obliterated. In the inftance of 
medals, many of them are worn by fric- 
tion to fucha degree, that it is {carcely 
poffible to decypher the types and charac. 
ters. 
A confiderable number of monuments 
have either been counterfeited through 
motives of avarice, or have been fo unfkil- 
fully treated, as to have undergone a 
change in their nature and quality. ‘The 
attempts which have been made to reflore 
mutilated ftatues have not always been 
managed with the degree of intelligence 
requifite for fucha taik. Severalignorant 
perfons have, in cleaning bronze flatues 
KX. 2 and 
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