Add MS 36878 A-L

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS and papers, viz. A. Accompts of Richard Ellys and Robert Nailler, Greaves of the Community of Rotherham, co. York, 29 June, 1537, and of Richard Kare and Thomas Batley, their successors, 28 June, 1538; together with the accompts of the " greves of our Lady's lights " for Westgate and Brigat [Bridgegate], the " greves of our Lady's service," and the " greves for St. Katherine's service," for the same dates. Printed in J. Guest's Historic Notices of Rotherham, 1879, pp. 71-73. f. 1. Presented by Robert White, Esq. B. [Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de] Turenne, to Lieutenant General Heinrich Yon Podewils, commanding the troops of the Duke of Brunswick; 4 March, [1672]-3 Sept. [1673]. Nine letters holograph, ten signed, and one copy. Several of the letters have seals attached. f. 6. C. Passport granted by the Government of the South African Republic to Alfred Williams for three months, signed by James Watt, Controller; 22 Apr. 1897. Dutch. f. 42. Presented by Alfred Williams, Esq. D. Two leaves from a collection of Latin Homilies de Sanctis, containing portions of homilies for the feast of SS. Peter and Paul.

13th cent. Doublee columns, clipped at the top. Extracted from the binding of a book printed in 1498. f. 43. E. Chants for the " Venite," " Cantate," and " Deus misereatur " by Major Lemon and W. Abbott, 1859-1860, and one unnamed by [Charles?] Norris, 1770. Copies. 19th cent. f. 45. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. F. 1. Robert Browning to the Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis, with reference to an article by the latter on his poetry: ',On one point you are misinformed . . . Instead of the poetry of E.B.B. being 'almost forgotten,' it is more remembered-or, at least, called for in order to be remembered-than it ever was . . . The demand for my own works is nothing like so large 11 May, 1880. Holograph. f. 46.

2. Statement by Rear Admiral [Samuel] Lord Hood in -vindication of the conduct of Count de Grasse in the battle of the 12th of April, 1782; written probably with regard to the attacks made upon the latter in France after his return to that country. Dated, London, 12 Aug. 1784. Holograph. f. 48. G. 1. Accompts of Benjamin Henshawe for furniture supplied to the Court; 26 Feb. 1620-28 Nov. 1621. f. 49.

2. Two receipts from the "poore prisoners in the hole of Wood Street Compter " for three shillidgs, being the weekly charity of the Lord Treasurer, 25 Mar. and 21 Aug. 1623; with one similar receipt from the " poore prisoners in the hole of the Powltrie Compter," 23 Dec. 1623. f. 57. H. 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Moore, giving reasons for the suppression of the first edition of Laon and Cythan, and referring to a book recently published anonymously by his wife (the History of a Six Weeks' Tour, which Shelley here states to have been written some years previously), and to another literary secret which she has (presumably Frankenstein); 16 Dec. 1817. Holograph, signature torn off. f. 60.

2. Sir John Stoddart, Chief Justice of Malta, to Barrow Field, Chief Justice of Gibraltar, giving details of his friendship with Charles Lamb; Feb. 1838. f. 62.

3. John Stuart Mill to [John] Austin, on the subject of his forthcoming Elements of Logic, with a table of contents of that work; 7 July, 1842. f. 64.

4. Benjamin Disraeli [cr. Earl of Beaconsfield 1876] to his sister Sarah, with reference to the probability of his election to the leadership of the Tory party in the House of Commons, vacant through the death of Lord G. Bentinck; 20 Jan. 1849. f. 68.

5. Robert Browning to Sir T. N. Talfourd, Justice of the Common Pleas, thanking him for a sonnet published in Household Words and for his friendship generally; Paris, 17 Dec. 1851. f. 70. I. Proclamation on behalf of the Government of the Orange Free State, annexing part of Natal; 31 Oct. 1899. Signed by A. J. Strauss and C. J. Erasmus, Commandants, and W. P. v. Nitkerk, Field Cornet. A copy, posted on the door of a Staathaus. Dutch. f. 71. Presented by Frank H. Orwin, Esq. K. Proclamation of George l., as Elector of Hanover, offering a reward for the arrest of the authors of anonymous attacks on the Catechism of Justus Gesenius, then in use in the schools of the Electorate; 20 March, 1724. Signed by A. G. Fr[eiherr] von Bernstorff. Germ. Copy. f. 72. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. L. Leaf from a Missal, including the beginning of the office of St. Leonard, abbot and confessor [presumably St. Leonard of Vandæuvre, whose relies were preserved at Corbigny, in the diocese of Autun]; 14th cent. With illuminated initial borders of English style. Formerly used as binding of Add. MS. 36760. f. 73. Vellum and paper; ff. 73. XIII.-XIX. centt. Folio.