1781.

Nov. 14.

29.

By the Right Honourable the EARL of STAIR. 135. A LARGE ftone hammer head, vulgarly denominated a Purgatory Hammer,

By the Right Honourable the EARL of KINTORE, 136. THIRTY-ONE pounds ten fhillings Sterling.

By the Right Honourable the EARL of BUCHAN. 137. SEVEN filver coins, viz. 1ft, The three-pence piece of William and Mary, 1689; 2d, The penny piece of the fame Princes, 1694; 3d, The fourpence of King William, 1699; 4th, A fixteen fhilling piece of Chriftiern IV. King of Denmark, dated 1644; 5th, A piece of Frederick III. King of Denmark, ftruck at Gluckstad. 1668; 6th, A two fhilling piece of Denmark, 1699; 7th, A fix grofs piece of John III. King of Poland, 1683; and fix copper pieces, viz. ft, A bodle of King Charles II. in good preservation; 2d, A Swedish piece, dated 1666; 3d, A Roman coin of Pope Urban VIII.; and three coins of the English Eaft-India Company.

By the Right Honourable LORD HADDO.

138. AN antient Greek onyx, fet in a gold ring, with an infcription, in four lines, in white letters on a black ground.

By Mrs SMELLIE.

139. A PIECE of natural fine white lace, being part of the bark of a tree which grows in Jamaica, measuring two feet one inch long, and one foot two inches broad; a pod of the mahogany tree, containing two feeds; and a flower of the cotton tree, with the cotton in it, ripe for pulling.

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1781.

Nov. 29.

By Dr WEBSTER.

140. An account of the life and writings of the celebrated Dr Archibald Pitcairn, delivered by him as the Harveian oration, at Edinburgh 1781.

By Mr JOHN NICHOLS Printer, London.

141. FOUR volumes in 4to, viz. Ift, An effay on the coins of Cunobeline, with two copper-plates by Samuel Pegge, A. M. 1766; . 2d, Pieces on sculpture; and particularly on the ftatue of Peter the Great, now finishing at Petersburgh, by Monfieur Falconet, and Monfieur Diderot, with a plate of the statue 1777; 3d, Bibliotheca topographica Britannica, No. 1. 1780, with plates; 4th, A collection of all the wills of the royal families of England, from the time of William the Conqueror, with explanatory notes, and a gloffary, 1780. Four volumes in octavo; 1ft, The origin of printing, 1776; 2d, A supplement to the origin of printing, 1778; 3d, The extenfive practice of the new husbandry, exemplified by Mr Forbes, a practitioner, 1778; 4th, Biographical memoirs of William Ged, and his progress in the art of block printing, 1781; and one volume duodecimo, of Scottish tragic ballads, 1781.

By Mr JOHN BALFOUR.

142. A COPY of the Museum Veronense; hoc eft, antiquarum infcriptionum atque anaglyphorum collectio, folio, Veronae 1749.

By Mr PATON.

143. A VINDICATION of Elizabeth More, from the imputation of being a concubine, by Richard Hay of Drumboote, C. R. 1723; and the political works of Andrew Fletcher, Efq; 1737

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1781. Dec. 18.

By the Rev. Dr BLAIR.

144. FOUR filver pieces, viz. ft, The quarter merk of King James VI. of Scotland; 2d, The marriage medal of King Charles I. 3d, The Scottish crown piece of the fame King; 4th, A medal ftruck on the birth of King Charles II.; and a bronze coin of the Emperor Vefpafian.

By Mr CREECH.

145. AN antient filver coin found in the Island of Mull.

By Mr M'CORQUODALE Writer in Inverary. 146. Six Scots pennies of King Charles II. and a pair of red deer's horns.

By Mr BOGLE Painter London.

147. A JAVELIN, or fpear, from the Sandwich Islands, of hard dark coloured wood, eight feet four inches long.

By DUNCAN M'DONELL of Glengary, Efq;

148. A LARGE pair of the red deer's horns.

By Mr ELPHINGSTON BALFOur.

149. A BEAUTIFUL large moth.

By Mr PATON.

150. Two small birds dried, called the Orialus Mexicana, or lef

fer Bonana bird.

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By

By Dr ROBERT JONES.

151. A COPY of his book, entitled, An Inquiry into the State of Medicine, 1781.

BY JOHN STEWART of Allanbank, Efq;

152. Two antient filver Greek coins, in high preservation.

By the Rev. Dr JOHN GEDDES.

153. A BULL of Pope Julius III. allowing Gavin Hamilton, named Coadjutor to John Archbishop of St Andrews, to retain his Abbacy of Kilwinning, dated Rome, pridie nonas Septembris, 1555.

By the Right Honourable the EARL of BUCHAN.

154. TWENTY pounds Sterling.

By Mr ANDREW COCKBURN.

155. A SILVER penny of King Alexander III. of Scotland, well preserved.

By Mr JAMES WELSH Goldsmith.

156. SEVEN numbers of a paper published weekly in London, under the title of a Collection for Improvement of Hufbandry and Trade, containing effays on various fubjects, news, advertisements, &c. printed in 1696 and 1697.

By Conveener WILLIAM FRASER.

157, A MEDAL in type metal, on each fide a head; infcription round the one, Micat inter omnes; round the other, Alter ab illo.

By

By Mr PRESTON.

158. A PLAN of King Alpin's camp at Pitaply near Dundee, drawn by Mr Samuel Bell architect, with references to an explanatory table, and a defcription of the camp, written by Mr Preston.

By LORD HAiles.

159. A COLLECTION of papers copied from the records in the Tower of London, relative to the homage of the Scots to King Edward I. of England, fent to his Lordship by the late Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. and Thomas Aftle, Efq; keeper of the records in the Tower of London, contained in eleven sheets of gilt paper.

By the Honourable CHARLES HOPE-WEIR, Efq;

160. An antient manuscript collection of Latin prayers, set to mufic, and used at the celebration of the Sacrament of the Supper, written on vellum, bound in oak, covered with black leather strongly fortified with brafs, each board measuring in length 25 inches, by 17 inches in breadth. This valuable MS. which is in excellent prefervation, belonged to the Jesuits of St Jago at Cadiz, and was taken at an invasion of the English, anno 1596. By a note at the bottom of the title page, it appears to have been the property of Peter Norris in the year 1612, probably the perfon who was Captain of one of Queen Elisabeth's ships, which affifted at the siege of Cadiz. The number of leaves eighty-feven, the initials ornamented with gold and colours, and the mufic lines drawn with red ink.

By Mr JOHN SYME.

16L. A SILVER coin of King James VI, of Scotland; on one fide the royal arms crowned; infcription, Jacobus VI. D. G. R. Sco

torum ;