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First line: ‘I’ve thought the fair Clarissa cries’. The word ‘Purge’ in lines 4 and 16 has been erased—presumably for delicacy’s sake—and replaced with a cross.

Consideration, £63. Witnessed by Hen. Harbin and Thomas Rea. ‘Sealed at the Rummer Tavern in the Strand.’

Copy by Margaret Holland.

First line: ‘A Knife, dear girl, cuts love they say’.

Both leaves are numbered ‘2’.

On classical drama, Voltaire etc.

Chelsea.

(The titles of books, poems, etc., are grouped by author. The heading appears on f. 6r, where the lists were begun.)

Copied by Henry Thurstan Holland and Margaret Holland, signed and dated by Henry Thurstan Holland.

First line: ‘Hot was the hour, when in the shade’.

The first list is headed, ‘My Sermons already written out fair’; the second, ‘Ser-mons, roughly compos’d already, and to be Written out fair’.

These leaves were intended to contain explanations of the prints on ff. 9-15, but they are blank.

(Undated. Each entry is in the form ‘Bon pour x actions dans l’emprunt contre l’Angleterre’ (each action, or share, being equal to 1000 livres), and each is in the hand of, and sub-scribed by, the contributor in question. There are seventy-seven contributors in all, in-cluding Napoleon Bonaparte; Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu et Cie; Alex-andre Barrillon; Jacques-Rose Récamier; Lang-Hupais Gelot et Cie; Pierre-Joseph-Fleury Jubié; Jean-Baptiste Decrétot; Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret; Fulchiron et Cie; Joseph Fulchiron; Doyen, Durieux et Cie; Paul Barras; Louis-Marie de la Ré-vellière-Lépeau; Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai; Nicolas François de Neufchâteau; Jean-François Reubell; Jean-Joseph Johannet; Pierre Lenormand; Jacques-Louis Saus-say; François-Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède; Louis-Ghislain de Boute-ville du Metz; Florent Guyot; Olry-Hayem Worms de Romilly; Jean-Charles Joachim Davillier et Cie; Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gobin; and Amelin van Robais et Cie.)