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Message only. Dated at Jena. Addressed to Johann Pfaehler of Strasbourg. Sealed at the foot.

(Engraved by William Marshall.)

‘Pietatis et literarum felix est et dulce contubernium.’ Dated at Strasbourg.

‘Non, si malo nunc, et olim sic erit.’ (Horace, Odes, II. x. 17–18.) Dated at Leipzig.

‘Si cui vis tuto fidere, fide DEO.’ Dated at Leipzig. Numbered 105.

(Engraved by Gerard van der Gucht. The illustration shows Aaron, Moses, and other figures, with God seated in the clouds.)

‘Si cui vis tuto fidere, fide DEO.’ Dated at Leipzig, 25 April. The year appears to have been cut away.

Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit.’ (Horace, Odes, II. x. 17–18.) The writer was probably a relation of Adam Rechenberg. Cf. ff. 114r, 115r, and 116r. (ii) Texts in Hebrew (Prov. xiii. 20 and Isaiah, xlv. 24). Dated at Strasbourg.

Below the sketch is written, ‘And here we have the celebrated Greek DIGAMMA.’

‘Mihi autem adhærere DEO bonum est.’ (Psalms, lxxiii. 28.) Dated at Wittenberg.

Undated. From a copy of the third volume of The Tyburn Chronicle (1768), where this illustration faces p. 281. From a drawing by Samuel Wale.

The ghost is saying, ‘Follow! wretch to the New Adelphi’, presumably a reference to the New Adelphi Theatre, which opened in London in 1858.

‘Δεῖ ὑμᾶς γεννηθῆναι ἄνθεον.’ (John, iii. 7.) Dated at Frankfurt am Main.

Asks for the 1000 livres he and Citizen Paya lent for the expedition against England to be refunded, in accordance with the law of 17 Dec.

(Undated. There is a marginal note, dated 6 Jan. (1799).)

First line: ‘As Florimel supinely lay along’. At the head is written ‘J Henley’. The subject of the poem was presumably John Hawtrey, who took a BA from St John’s in 1709, the year in which Henley was admitted there; but the date of his death is unknown.

A, as one of the representatives of Anne Moseley, daughter of Humphrey Moseley, late citizen and stationer of London, has an interest in the copyrights of ‘Priamus and Thisbe’, ‘Spencers Shepherds Calendar’, and other works, as recorded in the register of the Stationers’ Company and a transcript thereof; and also (formerly) claimed an interest in the copyright of ‘Cowleys Poems, Donns Poems, Davenants Works, Crashaws Poems, Carews Poems Ben Johnsons Works, 3d Vol, Pastor Fido, Sucklings Poems Denhams Poems Wallers Poems & Miltons Poems in Latin & English, with many others’, which all belong to B and C or one of them. For the consideration of £10 A assigns to C his interest in the copyrights of the books in the first group, and releases to B and C his claim to the copyrights of the books in the second group. Witnessed by Robert Knaplock, John Baker, and Marmaduke Horsley. (The witnesses to the receipt are the same.) Signed by ‘Dorman Newman Junior’.

Engraved by Charles Mosley. Published 1 Apr. 1739. Subscribed with the text of Isaiah, xlii. 9, and inscribed to ‘the Greatest Politician in Europe’ by ‘An Englishman’.

Caen.—Sends an account of the capture of Commodore Sidney Smith (f. 12).

(Dated 1 Floréal, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Marked in two different hands ‘Raport à communiquer’ and ‘Communiqué au Chef de l’état Major le 2 Floreal.’)