Here is preserved the MS. already mentioned from which Jebb published Roger Bacon’s _Opus Majus_, also the two MSS. from which Howard published the _Chronicle of Florence of Worcester_; the original MS., as prepared for press, of Spottiswoode’s _History of the Church of Scotland_; the original draft of Berkeley’s _Principles of Human Knowledge_; also the originals of Sir Thomas Roe’s _Correspondence_ (Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, 1621-8, published London, 1740). Of MSS. bearing on Irish history we have a fair collection. First may be mentioned a volume of _Letters of Queen Elisabeth on Public Affairs in Ireland, 1565 to 1570_, each letter having her sign-manual. There is also a volume of _Correspondence of Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy, with the English Government, 1612-1614_; the thirty-two volumes already mentioned of the _Depositions relative to the Rising of 1641_; thirteen volumes of the _Correspondence of Geo. Clarke, Secretary of War, 1690-1694_; as many of _Archbishop King’s Correspondence, 1696-1729_; _Irish Treasury Accounts, 1714-1719_; and twelve volumes of Major Sirr’s papers, letters, etc., chiefly connected with the Rebellion in 1798. We have also Dr. R. R. Madden’s large collection of papers relating to the United Irishmen. There are several important volumes of Waldensian literature, which have been catalogued and described by Todd in his _Books of the Vaudois_. With Wyclif literature also we are well supplied, and we have one of the two known copies of the first complete _English Prose Psalter_, recently published by Dr. Karl Bülbring for the Early English Text Society. We have two MSS. of Piers Plowman, five of Rolle’s _Pricke of Conscience_, and several hymns by Rolle (published by Todd in the _British Magazine_, vol. ix.). Dr. Ingram, a few years ago, identified the earliest English translation of the _De Imitatione_, disguised under the title the book occasionally bore--_Musica Ecclesiastica_. Nor must I omit to mention the _Life of St. Alban_ in Norman-French, probably in the handwriting of Matthew Paris, the text of which has been published, with glossary, etc., by Professor Atkinson. The original MS. is adorned with pictures on nearly every page. Illustrative of French history we possess statistical accounts of the French provinces and cities of about the year 1698, filling thirty-two volumes; also a collection, in twenty-five volumes, of _Memoirs_ (some called “Secret”) _of the Foreign and the Financial Affairs of France in the Reign of Louis XV_. These formed part of the Fagel Library. The same library contains a large collection of maps, printed and MS., some of great rarity. Copies of two or three of these have lately been made for the Colonial Office, as of value with respect to a question of the boundary of British Guiana.