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The quotation, 'Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot / L'honnête homme trompe s'éloigne et ne dit mot" was identified by the Chief Librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale as being from, La Coquette Corrigée, a 1756 comedy by de la Noue. It was quoted, with identification in George Otto Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876).

On part of an examination paper on Cicero. Information on most of the seniors added in MS notes beside the pasted-in sheet. 'The Master' is written, rather than Thompson's proper name.

Dated at Tonbridge and headed ‘(4.)’. Numbered 14.

(Dated ‘Thursday | Morning Past a 11’. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’.)

First line: ‘Oh! quis te furor aut malignus error’.

'Tune - '" Derry Down"'. First line 'So you doubt whom to choose of our Candidates three...' Printed by R. Tibbutt, Printer, Haymarket.

Date added by Macaulay, who has also written 'Election Squib' above the title, and added footnotes explaining the ballad at the bottom, with his initials: '1. the borough of Leicester, 2. Mr [William] Evans and Mr O[tway] Cave, 3. Sir Charles [Abney] Hastings, 4. the Corporation'.

(At the foot is the following incomplete continuation of the title: ‘With Pious Entertainments for the Great FESTIVALLS, being an Exposition of the’.)

(Each page is headed ‘Whittingham and Arliss’ Catalogue’. The books advertised are The London Theatre, by Thomas Dibdin (‘the first number … appeared on the 17th of September [1814]; and the publication will be regularly continued every Saturday’); The History of Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson; Maxims, Opinions, and Characters … from the Works of … Edmund Burke, 2nd ed.; The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel De Foe; A Narrative of the Voyages round the World performed by Captain James Cook, by Andrew Kippis; and Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, by Catharine Talbot.)

(Entirely typeset.)

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(Engraved by G. Noble from a drawing by J. Hamilton. Engraving published 31 July 1787. For the year see the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ii. 1308.)

(Engraving published 1 Dec. 1776.)

Lisieux.—The peace of the canton of Livarot has been disturbed by the threats and attacks of Chouans. Several properties have been raided and some republicans have been kidnapped. Encloses a letter from a leader of the Chouans demanding money from two residents of Courson (see f. 17). Asks him to send armed troops to Courson immediately, as the garde nationale is unable to fight.

(Dated 28 Pluviôse, an 4. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

First words, on one side: ‘If God made the earth cultivable’; and on the other: ‘Things termed common’. The sheet bears a sketch of the head of a man wearing an academic cap.

Describes the children of Montagu Montagu (born Wilkinson, c 1794-1797) in birth order giving their nicknames (real names added above) and a few lines on each: Henry (Stilts); Montagu (Mode); Caroline, Mrs Spencer Drummond (Gower); Willoughby (?Cospy), Edward (Boldero) and Horace (Flaccus). Small doodle in pencil on back.

(Handwritten, with an engraved and letterpress heading. Subscribed by Paul Barras and Joseph-Jean Lagarde.)

Consideration, £62. Witnessed by Oakley Gwynn and Jeremiah Prichard. Signed and sealed by A.