1578. Tabulæ Geographicæ Claudii Ptolomei .

per Gerardum Mercatorem, displaying on the title page the autograph signature of "Isaacus Casaubonus."

1593. Flavii Josephi Opera Omnia, fol. Froben Basilea MDXCIII. Copy of Froben's Editio Princeps Græce of the works of Josephus, containing a large number of MS. annotations by Jerome Wolf, reformer and scholar (1516-1581), to whom the book belonged.

1607. A Booke of Offices as well of his Majesties Courte, as of all other his Courtes of Record whatsoever, his Majesties Counsell of Yorke and of Wales and the Marches, his Townes of Warr Castells Bulwarkes and Fortresses, with his Highnes Howses, Parkes, Forrestes and Chases. Collected in anno 1607. A book of fine penmanship in parchment wrapper, perfect and in good condition: Setting forth the fees of the principal offices, and the names and stiles of the holders of the same offices.

1627. Satires in verse against George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: (1) a set of sixteen scurrilous lines, written at the moment of the Duke's departure for the Isle of Rhé; (2) a longer and more ambitious performance, of 102 verses, entitled "In Ducem Reducem or a Welcome from the Isle of Ree," and written on the occasion of › the Duke's return from the disastrous expedition. Satires of excessive virulence and bitterness, but of no literary merit.

Temp. Charles I.-Book of Silk Braids, 4to, containing twentyfive specimens of silk braid, each specimen being accompanied with a manuscript note of directions for making it, and in the end of the volume this quaint love-ditty :

"Upon a banke of a brooke, as I set fishing

Ere, nig[h] the osiers that grew on the side,
I over heard a nimp[h]e and shepard esing
No time nor forten their love might devide;
To Cupit and Venus thay oufred a vowe
For to love ever as they loved now.

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"Ha!' said the shepard and fisht, what a tresher
Is theare corsealed betwixt loveers alone!

Love is a fansy, like fancyes tresher

If onse discoverd it will quickly be gone,
But envi and jelysie, if thay do staye,

Ho! thay will,' sai he, 'sune brede love's decay.'

"Come let us leve the world and care behind us,'
Says the nimp[h]e smiling, and gave him har hand,
'All alone, all alone wheare none shall find us,
In sum farr desart to seeke a new land,

And theare be from envye and jelisie free,

And a new world to each [the] other will bec.'"

1647-1669.-Collection of papers (Persian firmans with translations into English), trade-bills, lists of prices of Persian goods, directions for buying diamonds and pearls, and other documents relating to mercantile affairs, together with a Persian translation of portions of the New Testament, formerly belonging to Nicholas Buckeridge (younger brother of Bishop Buckeridge), who, in the period pointed to by the abovegiven years, was a London merchant trading between London and Persia, and an agent employed by the President and Council of the East India Company as a negotiator in the Company's behalf in Persia; the miscellaneous writings being stitched together, without any regard to

chronological order, and bound into a folio volume, whose initial fly-leaf is inscribed with these words, "Some writings belonging to Mr. Nicholas "Buckridge, relating chiefly to Persian affairs during his stay at "Gombroon, called Bender or Bender Abassi, and his residence at "Ispahaun, collected without any regard had to method or the order "in which they were wrote. B.B. 1713." B[ainbrigge] B[uckeridge], the writer of this description of the book was the son or grandson of the Anglo-Oriental merchant and adventurer. A book that would probably be serviceable to historians of the earlier operations of the East India Company.

1661.-Astronomia Carolina.-A new Theorie of the Calestial Motions, &c., &c., &c. By Thomas Streete, Student in Astronomy and Mathematics. 4to. London. Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, and to be sold at his shop at the Castle in Cornhill, 1661.-Displaying on its title page the MS. memorandum "John Flamsteed for 7s. 6d.," this quarto volume is interesting for being the book from which Flamsteed the astronomer "calculated eclipses, and wrote the Treatise of the Equation of Days" in 1665, when he was in his twentieth year.

1669, September 22nd, to 1670, December 23rd.-Privy-Seal Docquet-Book, written throughout by Sir Edward Dering of Surrenden, co. Kent, baronet, one of the three Commissioners, appointed by Letters Patent, dated 22nd Sept., 21 Charles II., to keep the Privy Seal and discharge the office of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal during the absence in Ireland of John Lord Roberts, Keeper of the said Seal, appointed to proceed to Ireland, and to remain there for some time in the execution of the King's affairs. Containing a copy of the aforesaid Letters Patent, appointing the said Sir Edward Dering, Sir Thomas Strickland of Thornbridge, co. York, knight, and Robert Millward, Esq., one of King's Justices of Chester, to be Commissioners of the Privy Seal during pleasure, under the aforesaid circumstances, this book displays on its opening fly-leaf the following inscription by Sir Edward Dering's pen, to wit: "A Note and Abstract of all the privy-seales

passed since Sir Thomas Strickland, Robert Millward, esquire, and "myselfe were entrusted with the keeping of it, viz. 22 September "1669.-Lib. 1: from Michaelmas 1669 to Christmasse 1670.-Lib. 2: " from Christmasse 1670 to Christmasse 1671.-Lib. 3: from "Christmasse 1671 to 19th April 1673, when the Seale was delivered "up to his Majestie." Together with 385 numbered docquets, and three additional docquets entered and described on one of the volume's closing fly-leaves as "Docquetts forgot to be entered in their proper places," the present book-the only one of the three volumes in Mr. J. Eliot Hodgkin's possession-preserves some memoranda touching the official installment of the Commissioners, and their arrangements for the transaction of business, one of the sets of memoranda running thus

"Memoranda, 22 September, Our Commission beareth date. -4 October: The Privy Seale was delivered to Mr. Justice Millward and myselfe by the Lord Arlington at his office in Whitehall. The same day we were sworne by the Lord Keeper at Essex House, taking first the oathes of allegeance and supremacie, and then the oath for executing the office of Keeper of the Privy Seale. Sir Thomas Strickland came to towne that day, and being sworne by the Lord Keeper, 5th October: We met at the office in Whitehall and agreed to meet constantly Mondayes and Thursdayes every week for dispatch of the buinesse of the Privy Seale."

The 388 Docquets comprise the following entries :

(a.) 1669, Monday, October 11th.-A Pardon to John Sharpe for of killing George Whitfield at Tunbridge in Kent, with a non obstante 13 Rici 2di.

Memorandum.-This John Sharpe was arraigned for this fact at the last Lent Assizes at Maidstone, and found guilty of murther. But all the Justices of Peace then present at the triall did joine in a peticion to his Majestie to extend his mercie to him, it seeming a very hard judgment, Whitfield being killed by one Browne (since said to be Grangier), and Sharpe never touching him, nor having any weapon, but being in presence, and lighting Browne back to his father's house where he lay, with a candle and lanthorne.

(b.) 1669, Thursday, October 14th.-A Warrant to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to graunt letters of administration to Sir George Downing and Sir William Doyly of all goods and chattels, rights and credits belonging to the Queen Mother deceased, for the use of his Majestie.

(c.) 1669, Thursday, October 14th.-A Warrant to the Treasury to pay to Edward Backwell, esq. the summe of 1,000l. with interest from the 8th July last being for so much paid by him to the Earle of St. Albans for the use of the Queen Mother before her death.

(d.) 1669, Monday, October 18th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay unto the Lord Falconberge his Majesties Ambassadour Extraordinary to Venice the summe of 1,500/. for his transportacion, equipage, and other necessaries, and also 107. per diem for his entertainment, to commence from the day he shall depart and to continue till his returne into his Majesties presence inclusive, and to advance the first three months, and afterwards to be paid quarterly, and likewise to pay such summes of money for intelligence and other private services, as by bills, subscribed by him and allowed by one of his Majesties Secretaries of State, shall appeare due unto him. The said summes and payments to be without accompt.

(e.) 1669, October 25th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to the Earle of Essex 601. for his Majesties [ which he is pleased to bestow upon him: And also 500l. for his mournings, in regard to the liveries his Lordship hath made for his Embassy to the King of Denmarke [which] cannot be used in that service by reason of the death of the Queene Mother.

(f) 1669, October 28th.-A Warrant to the Treasurer to pay Sir Thomas Osborne and Sir Thomas Littleton the summe of 150,000l. for the use of his Majesties Navy.

(g.) 1669, October 28th.-A Warrant to the Treasurer to pay to Isaac le Goose, his Majesties jeweller, 60007., being the price of two large dyamonds his Majestie bought of him.

(h.) 1669, Tuesday, November 2nd.-A Warrant dormant to the Exchequer to pay to Sir Edward Dering, Sir Thomas Strickland, and Robert Millward, esq., Commissioners, for keeping his Majesties privy seale in the absence of the Lord Roberts, 20s. per diem as have been usually allowed to the Keeper of the Privy Seale, and 41. per diem in lieu of 16 dishes of meat allowed to the Keeper of the said Seale, to begin from 22 September last, and to continue during his Majesties pleasure.

(i.) 1669, Thursday, November 4th.-A Discharge unto Anne Lady Fanshaw, relict and executrix of Sir Richard Fanshaw, in consideration of 2,000l. by her paid into the Exchequer, of all the severall parcells of plate delivered out of his Majestie's jewell house to the said Sir Richard Fanshaw, for his embassy to Portugall and Spaine.

(k.) 1669, November 11th.-A Graunt unto John Seymour, esq. and his assignes [of] the sole priviledge of severall bookes and school-authors for 41 yeares, to begin after the expiracion of two graunts yet in being to the Company of Stationers and to Roger Norton.

(7.) 1669, Thursday, December 2nd.-His Majesties Graunt to William Lord Willoughby of Parham to be Captain-Generall and Governour-in-Chief of all the Barbados and other the Caribee Islands, to continue during his Majesties pleasure, with such powers and privileges as were graunted in his former pattent.

(m.) 1669, Thursday, December 2nd.-A. Warrant to the Exchequer to pay unto Sir Edward Griffin, Treasurer of the Chamber to his Majestie, the summe of 50,000l. upon accompt for wages and other expenses of his Majesties household, by warrant under his Majesties signe manuall.

(n.) 1669, Monday, December 6th.--A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay unto Phillip Earle of Chesterfield and Charles Henry Lord Wootton the summe of 9,000Z., in consideracion of a surrender of a rent of 3,000l. per annum, devised to them by Katherine Countesse of Chesterfield, relict of Daniel O'Neale, which 3,000l. per annum was graunted to the said Katharine by his Majestie, in consideracion of the surrender of a pattent, made to the said Daniel O'Neale for the sole making and repairing of all his Majesties powder for 21 years.

(o.) 1669, Monday, December 6th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to William Ashburnham, esq., cofferer of his Majestie's household, the summe of 100,000l. for defraying the expenses of the said household for one yeare endinge the last day of September, 1670; and also the further summe of 10,000l., for defraying the interest of money to be borrowed by him for the said service, upon accompt.

(p.) 1669, Thursday, December 9th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay the Earle of Ancram 1,000l. out of the profits of his Majesties part of the tinne formerly cast away before Ostend and now remaining in the sea and not fished up.

(q.) 16%, Monday, January 24th.-A Presentation of Ralph Davenant, clerke (ad corroborandum titulum) to the rectorie of St. Mary Matfellon (sic) alias Whitechappell in the countie of Middlesex.

(r.) 168, Thursday, January 27th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to William Young and İsaac Staggins, musicians in ordinary to his Majestie for the flute and hoboy, in the place of Henry Bassano, deceased, who enjoyed both, the wages and fee of 20d. per diem, and 167. 2s. 6d. yearly to each of them during his Majesties pleasure, to commence from midsummer 1665.

(s.) 168, Thursday, February 3rd.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to Isaac le Goose, his Majesties jeweller, 1,450l. for his Majesties picture set with diamonds, given the Danish Ambassador, and a ring given the Envoy from the Prince of Orange.

(t.) 16. Tuesday, February 15th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of St. Martin's-inthe-Fieldes the summe of 1007., as his Majesties guift for their poor.

(u.) 163, Tuesday, February 15th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to the Treasurer of King Charles his hospitall in Westminster the sum of 50l., as also 50l. per annum to commence from Christmas last, and continue during his Majesties pleasure.

(v.) 1698, Tuesday, February 15th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of St. Margaret's, Westminster, 50l. as his Majesties free guift.

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(w.) 168, Tuesday, February 15th.-His Majesties Declaracion that Sir Algernon May shall enjoy the Office of Keeper of the Records

in the Tower of London, during his Majestie's pleasure, with the fees and profits thereof, and the yearly summe of 500l. to be paid out of his Majesties Exchequer.

(x.) 16%, Monday, February 21st.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to John Werden, esq., his Majesties envoyé extraordinaire to the King of Sweden, 3007. for his equipage, and 47. per diem for his entertainment, to commence from the day of his departure and to continue till the day of his returne to his Majesties presence inclusive, and farther to pay him such summes of money for intelligence as shall be allowed by one of his Majesties Secretaries.

(y) 1698, Tuesday, March 1st.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to Sir Stephen Fox 8,000l. without accompt, for his Majesties secret service. To be by him issued out according to such directions as he shall receive from his Majestie in that behalf,

(2.) 168, Thursday, March 3rd.-A Warrant to the Exchequer, to pay to the Duke of Monmouth 9,2007. without accompt, in satisfaction for what his Majestie oweth him for severall disbursements by him made by his Majestie's command, of the summe of 1,7007. to be paid at our Lady day 1670; 1,500l. at Michaelmas, 1670; and the other 6,000l. by even halfe yearly payments in two years, viz., 1,500l. each halfe yeare.

(aa.) 16, Monday, March 14th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay unto Edward Backwell, esq., 6,2047. 4s. 5d., being the interest of 190,3197. 9s. 10d., certified by Mr. Auditor Aldworth.

(bb.) 168, Thursday, March 17th.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to Phillip Parker, esq., paymaster of his Majesties workes, the summe of 10,000l. upon accompt for his Majesties workes done or to be done.

(ec.) 16%, Monday, March 21st.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to the Earle of Suffolke out of his Majesties revenue arising by fire-hearths and stoves the sum of 20,0007. in full payment of 50,000l., for the purchase of Audley End with the appurtenances.

(dd.) 1670, Monday, April 18th.-An Incorporacion of Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Craven, Lord Arlington, Lord Ashley, Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter Collston, Sir Edward Hungerford, Sir Paule Neile, Sir John Griffith, Sir Phillip Carteret, James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, William Prettyman, John Fenne, John Portman, into one body politique by the name of Governours and Adventurers trading to Hudsons baye; granting them and their successors all the lands and the sole trade into the seas and creekes, lying within the entrance of Hudson Streights.

(ee.) 1670, Thursday, April 21st.-A Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to Sir R. Southwell, envoy extraordinary to Portugall, severall summes of money due to him, amounting in the whole to 3,1337., in full satisfaction of his disbursements in that employment, to be received without accompt, and to discharge the said Sir Robert Southwell and Francis Parry, esq., now his Majesties agent in that Court of severall summes, amounting in the whole to 11,2607., received for his Majesties use in that Court.

(f) 1670, Thursday, April 28th.--A Graunt unto William Poley, gentleman, of the office of Chirographer of the Court of Common Please, with the fees and profits thereof, to take effect in reversion after the decease or other determinacion of the interests of Thomas Sparke and William Longuevill to whom the same is graunted successively for their lives. And to hold the same to the said William Poley during his Majesties pleasure.