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‘Πραγματεὐσασθε ἵως ἔρχομαι.’(?) (Luke, xix. 13.) Dated at Franeker. Addressed to Elias Silberrad. Numbered 175.

‘Domine minor sum cunctis miserationibus Tuis.’ (Genesis, xxxii. 10.) ‘Occultari ad tempus potest veritas, vinci non potest. | Florere ad tempus potest iniquitas, permanere non potest.’ (St Augustine.) Dated at Ulm.

(Engraved by Benjamin Cole. Below the illustration is a dedication to George, Prince of Wales.)

‘Quod Theiologus verè Magnus ÆGIDIUS STRAUCHIUS dicere solitus: Der Pfarrer ist wohl ehraus[?] Werth | Der selbsten lebt wie Er gelehrt | Fecit quod dixit, sicut docuit quoque vixit!’ Dated at Giessen. Numbered 275.

(Drawn and engraved by James Taylor.)

(Engraved by William Faithorne.)

‘Disputandi pruritus | sit | Ecclesiarum Scabies.’ (Sir Henry Wotton.) Dated at Stuttgart.

(The illustration includes a banner bearing the text ‘Quid rides? mutato nomine, de te | Fabula narratur. Horat.’)

Four lines, beginning ‘Verlasse dich auf Menschen nicht’. Probably written at Riga. The writer’s title is ‘Pastor ad D. Johan[nem] in Riga.’

(Engraved by Angus from a drawing by Stothard.)

Text in Arabic. ‘Accende lucernam tuam ante tenebras.’ Dated at Jena.

‘In spe in silentio | Speremus. Veniet tempus gaudendi. | Sileamus. Veniet tempus loquendi.’ (Isaiah, xxx. 15, etc.) ‘Si Deus pro nobis, quis contrà nos?’ (Romans, viii. 31.) Dated at Halle.

(This differs slightly from the frontispiece of the first edition of 1662.)

(Engraved by Abraham Hertochs.)

(‘The following (copied from an old account-book) gives a complete account of my personal expenditure during the summer term 1900’.)

Text in Hebrew. Dated at ‘Berg:’(?).

First words: ‘Pleasure and pain accompany almost every idea …’.

(Dated at Paris. Signed by Roques as président en absence, Barrillon, Sévène, and Récamier.)

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Transcript

[In the margin:] Secrétariat | Dépenses

Paris le 24 Germinal au 6e de la République française une Et Indivisible

Les Commissaires particuliers des Preteurs de l’Emprunt Contre L’Angleterre

Au Ministre de finances

Nous avons Reçu, Citoyen Ministre, votre Lettre du 22 Courant, qui nous accuse la Réception de la nôtre du 15 dudit, Et de la Notte qui y etois Jointe des objets Necessaires pour L’usage de nos Bureaux, Elle nous prévient aussi que vous avez donné les ordres pour que ces objets nous les avons Reçus

Salut Et Fraternité
Roques | President En absence
Barrillon
Aug[us]te Sevene
J. Recamier

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The letter was not written by any of the four signatories.

Caen.—Encloses copies of reports (f. 14).

(Dated 26 Floréal, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados.)