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‘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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[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.)

Acknowledges the receipt of £34 8s. for the copyright of his brother Abraham Stanyan’s ‘Account of Switzerland written in the Year 1714’, for which he promises to make a bill of sale when required.

Subscribed with verses beginning ‘The Great man easy sits in Borrow’d State’. This impression lacks the words ‘Published & Invt. by a Friend to ye Court’, which appear on those in the British Museum. Undated.

The sketch is captioned ‘horrible fate of the man who kept a note book | vide Ovid Metam: VII. 364 et sq.’ At the top is small figure on a cloud, labelled ‘this is νεφεληνερετα Ζευς’, i.e. ‘cloud-gatherer Zeus’.

‘Non decet membrum delicatum esse sub capite spinis confixo.’ ‘Das glid kan nicht in weissen[?] blumen sitzen, | wan sich das haubt vom dorn mus lassen ritzen.’ Probably written at Wismar. The writer’s title is ‘Schol[ae] Wismar[iensis] Rector’.

The defendant is given a week to plead, pleading issuably, the defendant undertaking to deliver particulars of any set-off he may plead.

(A printed form, filled up by hand.)

Clarendon Place.—The Court of Common Pleas has appointed Monday the 6th and the next three days to sit in bank, and errors from their own court will probably be taken in a week’s time.

(Dated Monday.)