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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.)

Docketed ‘Idée du Roi de Prusse.’

First line: ‘Ask you, why round yon hallow’d Grave’.

Folios 47–9 are numbered 3–5.

(There is a related note on f. 50v.)

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, signed and dated.

Includes notes on Denham, Racine, Dryden, Quinault, Corneille, Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Horace, Shakespeare, Tryphiodorus, and Seneca.

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, signed and dated.

Folios 41–6 are paginated 7–16 in red pencil. Folio 40 was apparently the front cover of a booklet.

First line: ‘Ye Solemn Pedagogues, who teach’.

The names, which include those of women, are in three columns, headed respectively ‘Archer Row’, ‘Portugal Row’, and ‘Holborn Row’.

One page is headed ‘Wednesday’s Subjects.’, with columns for ‘Episodes. Elogiums. Parodies. Proems. Preambles. Preliminaries.’ and ‘Orations.’; another is headed ‘Sundays Subjects.’, with columns for ‘Postills’, ‘Sermons’, and ‘Lectures’.

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, dated.

These leaves are paginated 17–28 in red pencil.

(A later note, dated 23 Jan. 1909, was added on f. 38v.)

Dated at Chatelaine, (Ferney).