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Notes of information received from citizens on the suspicious activities of Chouans in Lisieux, Martin de Mailloc, and Marolles.

(Headed ‘Notes et Renseignements’. Certified as a true copy by Pierre-Jean Lévêque.)

(i) A assigns to B (equally) the copyright in (the first volume of) The Old and New Testament Connected for a consideration of £43, half of which is not to be paid till it is printed. A also assigns to B to copyrights of ‘The Validity of the Orders of the Church Of England’, ‘The Award of King Charles the First’, ‘Directions for Church Wardens’, and ‘the Life of Mahomet’, all by Humphrey Prideaux. A second volume of The Old and New Testament Connected is now being written, and A promises to let B have the copyright in this for the same price as the first volume, in proportion to the number of sheets. Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Glenister and Thomas Edeline.

(iv) is signed by Thomas Warkhouse, W. Rolfe, and Edmund Locke, the examiners, (v) by Edward Northey.

Headed ‘An Imitation of the Latin Poem on the Death of Sir William Scot of Thirlestane.’ First line: ‘Bennet, the Muses Ornament, and Friend’. This imitation is in the same hand as the original.

£66 13s. 4d. is to be allowed to Gilbert Gerard, attorney general, and to Richard Onslow, solicitor general, for their work in ‘drawinge of bookes’ and attendance in connection with the suit between between the Queen and the Earl of Northumberland concerning copper, gold, and silver mines [the ‘Case of Mines’], in which judgement was given for the Queen, and also for their work in another matter relating to the College of Llandinbrevie(?) (the details are indistinct), in which judgement was also given for the Queen.

(Headed ‘At the liberate Termino Trinitatis anno Decimo Regine Elizabeth’’. In the hand of an amanuensis. Signed by Winchester and Mildmay.)

(Undated.)

Note underneath: 'Mrs Powell - Coldra Hall. Massacred in Abyssinia - April "/69'.

Two ballads on one sheet.

Dated at Richmond. Numbered 16.

‘Ut metus absit, retineatur charitas.’ (Cicero.)

(The ornament is from p. v. Below it are three lines of a printed dedication.)

(Engraved by G. L. Smith; composed and designed by B. Seeley. It is unclear which edition this is from.)

(A person in classical dress, standing on a small winged globe and holding a banner. Below the device is printed ‘A PARIS’, the first line of the imprint.)

(The ornaments are from p. 191 and sig. (a)3r.)

(A serpent, in a frame, flanked by cherubs, maps and globes, etc. Designed and engraved by François Chauveau.)

A serpent, in a cartouche, flanked by two female figures, one holding a shield and spear, the other a mirror.

(Engraved by I. Wood from a drawing by William Green junior.)

(A man playing a harp in front of a cottage, watched by a man leaning on a stick and three figures on horseback. On the back of the leaf are the concluding lines of ‘Naworth Castle: a Fragment’, by Frederick, Earl of Carlisle.)