1782. April 2.

By Mr THOMAS BAILLIE Writer.

229. A ROMAN bronze coin of the Emperor Maximianus, in good prefervation.

By Mr JOHN WILLIAMS.

230. A COPY of his account of the vitrified forts in the north parts of Scotland, in a series of letters; to which is added a letter on the fame fubject, not published with the reft, 8vo, 1777.

By Mr ALEXANDER BROWN.

231. A PAIR of remarkable old fpurs and stirrups of brafs, which belonged to the family of Lord Napier; a carved ftone, which was part of the building of the abbey of Melrofe, and had been employed in the construction of a hog's fty, from whence it was lately taken by the donor; a human skull, taken out of a ftone coffin, which was deposited under a large tumulus which stood a few paces to the north of the old abbey of Newbottle, was of a conic figure, thirty feet in height, ninety feet in diameter at the base, which was furrounded with a circle of ftones, and on the top there grew a fir tree. This venerable pile, which was compofed of earth brought from a distance, was removed, on the rebuilding of the house of Newbottle, part of which was burnt a few years ago, when the stone coffin was discovered, which measured near feven feet in length, and was proportionably deep and wide. A copy of Mr Thomas Ruddiman's Bibliotheca Romana, and of the Bibliotheca Mooriana, both in 8vo.

By ROGER ROBERTSON of Ladykirk, Efq;

232. SEVEN specimens of the ftar ftone, vulgarly called St Cuthbert's beads, and three petrified cockle fhells..

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1782. April 2.

By Mr JAMES GLASS of Crieff.

233. An old filver dollar of Brabant.

By JOHN CAW, Efq;

234. A WARRANT under the Privy Signet of Mary Queen of Scots, permitting David Blair of Adamtoune, on account of his corpulency and other complaints, to absent himself from the Queen's hoft, dated at Dunfermline the 15th of June 1562; a letter figned by the above Queen to the Laird of Adamtoune, requiring his attendance at Hamilton, with his friends and followers, for her Majesty's service, dated at Hamilton the 6th of May 1568; seven silver Scots coins, viz. one of Francis and Mary, Sovereigns of France and Scotland; one of Queen Mary, Oppidum Edinburgi; one of King James VI. fimilar to the laft; two forty pence coins of King Charles I. two five fhillings pieces of King William, dated 1697; three English filver coins; 1ft, A penny of King Edward I.; 2d, A rose fixpence of Queen Elifabeth; 3d, A fourpence piece of King Charles II. dated 1673; five old filver pennies of the Count of Namur and Henault; an old filver coin of the Dutchy of Guelders; sixty-six copper coins and medals, viz. twenty of King James V. of Scotland, ftruck in Villa de Edinburgh; nine bodles of King James VI. Charles I. and II. and William and Mary; fix Scots pennies of King Charles II.; an English farthing of King Charles II. dated 1672; an Irifh fhilling of King James II. dated November 1689; an Irish coin, on one fide, Floreat Rex, on the other, Quiefcat Plebs; a larger and smaller coin of the settlement of Bombay; a penny of the Isle of Man, ftruck by order of the Duke of Athole; a farthing of Nicholas Shepherd, in Saxmundham, Draper; a large Ruffian coin, dated 1764; a coin of Charles VI. Emperor of Germany, and King of Spain, dated 1712; a coin of the Electorate of Bavaria, dated 1750; a coin of the Stadt Hamm, da

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April 2. ted 1725; two medals of Utrecht, one dated 1620, the other struck in 1607; a medal, on one fide a fortified town on the sea coast, infcription, in adverfis virtus, 1603; on the other, a cock in a tree, and a fox below, inscription, aliud in lingua, aliud in pectore; a medal of Holland, dated 1595; another of Guelders, dated 1594; a coin of Philip IV. dated 1652; another Spanish coin of Charles II. King of Spain, dated 1686; a Swedish coin; a two skilling Danish coin, dated 1680; two large Portugal coins, the dates 1720, and 1743; two smaller ones of mixed white metal and rude sculpture, dated 1769; a small coin of the Canton of Berne, dated 1718; and fix other coins. He likewise presented a curious and valuable collection of ores of copper, lead, and iron, corals, chrystals, figured ftones, petrified shells, &c. confifting of 39 articles.

By the Right Honourable the EARL of BALCARRA's.

235. COPIES of nine royal letters, viz. two from King Charles II. to the firft Earl of Balcarras and his Lady; two from James Duke of York, afterwards King James VII. to the said Earl; two from Queen Henrietta Maria, to the faid Countefs; one from Queen Anne; and two from Mary Princefs of Orange, to the Countefs.

By the Honourable HORACE WALPOLE, Esq;

·236. A copy of his catalogue of royal and noble authors, handfomely bound in green Turkey, and richly gilt.

By Mr CUMMYNG Secretary.

237. FOUR alligators of different fizes; one measuring in length three feet fix inches; another two feet four inches; the third two feet two inches; and the fourth one foot nine inches.

1782. April 2.

By Mr JOHN CLERK Optician..

238. LACERTA Iguana, measuring twenty-three inches in length; and the foetus of a mouse, taken at the time of birth, and preserved in fpirits.

By Mr ELPHINGSTON BALFOur.

239. A SILVER forty pence piece of K. Charles I.; and a copy of the Differtatio de monumentis quibusdam Romanis, in boreali Magnae Britanniae parte detectis, anno 1731. (By the late Sir John Clerk of Pennycuick, Bart.) 4to, 1750.

By Mr ALEXANDER DRUMMOND.

240. A copy of Thomas Weft's Antiquities of Furness, or an account of the Royal Abbey of St Mary, in the Vale of Night Shade, near Dalton, in Furnefs, with plates, 4to, 1774.

By Mr SAMUEL SHAW Writer.

241. TWENTY numbers of the London Gazette, published by authority, in the year 1686; fifteen numbers of the fame paper, in the year 1687; the same published the 12th of November 1688, in which is the address of the Bishops of Scotland, upon the intended invafion; the fame for July 10th 1690, and October the 5th 1691; the English Currant for the 19th of December 1688, in which is an account of the Prince of Orange's entry into London; proposals of the commiffioners from King James, to the Prince of Orange, 8th of December 1688, with the Prince's anfwer; an account of the flight, discovery, and apprehenfion of the Lord Chancellor Jeffries, 12th of December 1688; a proclamation against unqualified pedagogues, chaplains, and others, ordaining them to take the teft, iffued at Edinburgh the 4th of June 1683; a letter from Dr Titus Oates, to his

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April 2. Grace the Duke of Monmouth; a letter from Min Heer Fagel, to Mr James Stewart advocate, giving an account of the Prince and Princefs of Orange's thoughts, concerning the repeal of teft and the penal laws; a proclamation concerning the alteration to be made in the prayers for the Royal Family, iffued from the Privy Council the 29th of June 1688; a proclamation discharging the importing, vending, difperfing, or keeping feditious books and pamphlets, iffued at Edinburgh the 15th of August 1688; a proclamation for reftoring corporations to their antient charters, liberties, rights, and franchises, iffued the 17th of October 1688; a proclamation for payment of his Majefty's cefs and excife, 9th of November 1688, and another against spreading falfe news, 10th of November fame year; fome reflections upon the humble petition to the King's most excellent Majesty, of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, who fubfcribed the fame, prefented the 17th of November 1688.

By his Grace the DUKE of ARGYLE.

242. FIFTY POUNDS Sterling..

By GEORGE CONSTABLE of Wallace Craigie, Efq;

243. ORIGINAL bond for payment of the tax of the town of Kinghorn, due to the Lord Chamberlain, James Earl of Buchan, dated the 18th of January 1473.

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