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‘Bonæ mentis usurpatio nullum tristioris fortunæ recipit incursum.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

Probably copied from a newspaper or journal. Numbered 31.

Upcott’s name has been added at the foot in pencil.

From the edition printed 'Coloniae Agrippinae [at Cologne]. Apud Henricum Falckenburg'.

Sent to unidentified recipient.

‘Da mihi, Christe Deus, quæ das tibi sanguine junctis, | Coelica, Christe, mihi sanguine parta tuo.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of £3 4s. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer (the Marquess of Winchester) from the Treasurer’s place at London to Yorkshire to deliver a letter to the ‘costomere’ ther, and for returning ‘with lyche [like] spede’ to London. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt. ‘I was xxiiij dayes in thys Jorney.’

(Marked ‘fiat Alloc[atum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

(Engraved by Étienne Fessard in 1750 from a design by Pierre-Augustin Clavareau. The inscriptions at the foot are ‘P. Clauareau. In.’ and ‘Et. fessard. sculp. 1750.’)

Undated, but probably printed in 1751. A small piece of the heading has been torn off.

Ten six-line stanzas. First line: ‘Come follow, follow me’. At the top is written in a different hand: ‘Some slight variations from Percy’s text. Stanzas 9 and 10 added.’

Numbered 30.

Beaumont.—On the night of 4–5 March about 150 Chouans gathered at Pierrefitte (Pierrefitte-en-Auge) and St Hymer and committed robberies, after which they took refuge in the Château de Reux. Complains of the behaviour of the soldiers of the 3e Compagnie franche, who did not do their duty in fighting the Chouans.

(Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

First line: ‘’Tis not the splendour of the Place’.

Nine lines, beginning ‘Si mihi sint vires, et prædia magna: quid inde?’ Addressed to ‘Dn: Alberto Wessenero’ (dative).

(Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi from a design by Giovanni Battista Cipriani.)

Caen.—Encloses f. 28.

(Dated 24 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Answered on 16 Mar. Dugua has added the following note: ‘le 22. [12 Mar.] le citoyen feral a donné un Certificat de bonne Conduite au capitaine de 3e Compagnie franche qu’il a denoncé le 20 [10 Mar.].—Repondu le 28. ventose [18 Mar.].)