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1783.

By Mr ALEXANDER GARDNER Jeweller.

478. A proclamation of King William, for a national humiliation in Scotland, on acJune 12. count of the death of Queen Mary, dated the ad of January 1695.

By Mr BRYDSON Jeweller.

479. A flying fish, and three centipeds, preferved in fpirits, and a filver medal of Charles III. King of Spain.

By Mr DUNCAN WATSON.

480. A copy of Cafparis Bartholini de Tibiis veterum. 12mo.

By Mr M LEAN Mathematician..

Romae 1677.

481. Part of an ancient Roman fword of brafs, in length 10 inches; a copy of the New Testament in French, 18mo, Geneva 1559 three base filver coins of King James V. and two of Mary Queen of Scots.

By the Rev. Mr JOHN JAMIESON of Forfar.

482. An old filver penny, fimilar to that defcribed in No. 380, a filver penny of King Alexander III. a half groat of King Robert II. a filver penny of King Henry II. of England, another of King Henry III. a groat of King Henry VI. Villa Califie, an Irish penny of King Edward I. a copper coin of Mary Queen of Scots, a fmall copper medal of King William and Queen Mary, and a brafs medal of Henry IV. of France.

By Mr ANDREW JOBSON of Dundee.

483. Two ancient Roman filver coins, nineteen ancient Roman bronze coins, a filver coin of King James V. of Scotland, a copper coin of Mary Queen of Scots, twenty bodles, two half bodles, an old copper coin of Majorca, and a half fliver of Guelderland, the date 1754

By Mr GEORGE PATON..

484. Two pieces of amber ftone, from the fea fhore near the Queensferry; and two fmall birds from the Sandwich Islands, one of a beautiful red, the other black, with a mixture of green; also a copper-plate, whereon is engraved a fac fimile of a charter of King Alexander III. Gillechrifto M Nachdan, by Richard Cooper, Edinburgh.

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By Mr JAMES DALLAS Writer to the Signet.

485. A piece of very rich lead-ore, in which fome copper is intermixed, found at Mof

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By Mr THOMAS CARMICHAEL Merchant.

486. A copper half crown, coined by King James II. of Great Britain, in Ireland, dated 1690, and a copper penny of the Province of Virginia, dated 1773.

By Mr SELKIRK STEWART.

487. A Scots filver five fhillings piece of King William, dated 1697, and an Irish copper hilling, dated 1689.

By Mrs JANET COWAN.

488. Two bodles of King Charles II.

By the SECRETARY.

489. An ancient fteel cross bow, fitted up for use, with a double string: And also, a feries of original letters, relating to the valuable collection of natural objects fent to the Rev. William Robertson, D. D. Principal of the University of Edinburgh, by the Earl of Buchan, in the year 1766, for the purpofe of eftablishing a Mufaeum in the College of Edinburgh, together with inventories of the contents of feveral of the boxes, which were all directed to the Principal, who, together with the Rev. Dr Walker, then minifter of Moffat, and Dr William Cullen, Physician in Edinburgh, were appointed his Lordship's true -fees in the property of the faid collection, which is now lost.

By Mr THOMAS JOHNSTON Sadler.

490. A well preserved bodle of King Charles II. dated 1677.

By PROFESSOR WILSON of Glafgow.

491. An ancient Druidical patera, of ponderous ftone, five inches in diameter, and inches in depth, with a small square perforated handle, two inches broad.

By Mr ALEXANDER DRUMMOND.

492. Two well preserved Scots fixpenny copper coins, dated 1678 and 1679.

By Mr CHARLES CORDELL of Newcastle..

493. Seven filver coins, viz. two of the Emperors Nerva and Trajan, a penny of King Edward II. of England, a groat of King Henry VIII. a fixpence of Queen Elizabeth, dadated 1579, a fmall Union piece of King James I. of Great Britain, and a Spanish piftorin, dated 1724; and fixteen copper coins, viz. four ancient Roman, two small ones of King

1783.

June 12.

1783. June 12.

King Charles I. the one English, the other Irish; an Irifh copper fhilling, dated 1689; an Irish farthing of King George II. dated 1760; a farthing token of James Morris of Arandel, dated 1652; an Ifle of Man halfpenny, dated 1778; a copper medal, on one fide, Cujus eft, on the other, Reddite; a Chinese brafs coin; and four German medals of brafs.

By JOHN ERSKINE of Alva, Efq;

494. A plan of the difpofition of the allied army at the battle of Hockftat, the 9th of July 1704, and the parliament robe of the Lord Treasurer of Scotland, of crimfon moreen, lined throughout with fur, with his purfe of brown velvet, his gloves, and the embroidered cufhion of his chair.

By Mr DAVID HUTCHIESON.

495. Thirteen original papers concerning witches, containing minutes of court in their trials, examinations, and confeffions, before bailies and minifters; the reports of prickers, who were appointed to prick their bodies for the devil's dead marks, &c.; and the head of a hatchet of well polished gray marble, 7 inches long, and 24 inches broad, at the great

end.

By the ROYAL SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES of Copenhagen.

496. Three volumes, in 4to, viz. 1ft, Gunnlaugi vermilinguis et Rafnis poetae vita; Hafniae, 1775. 2d, Rymbelga, five rudimentum computi Ecclefiaftici veterum islandorum; Hafniae, 1780. 3d, Hiftoria Orcadenfium, a primo Orcadum per Norvegos occupatione, ad exitum feculi duodecimi, et vita S.ti Magni Infularum Comitis; Hafniae, 1780. And two volumes in 8vo; 1ft, Krifti-Saga, five Hitoria Religionis Chriftianae, in Iflandiam introductae, necnon narratio de Iflifo Epifcopo; Hafniae, 1773; 2d, Hunkurvaka, five historia primorum quinque Skalheltenfium in Islandia Epifcoporum, Hiftoria Pauli Epifcopi, et Narratio de Thorvalldo peregrinatore; Hafniae, 1778. All handfomely bound and gilt.

By Mr WILLIAM WALKER Sollicitor at Law.

497. Four copper coins, viz. one of Germany, one of Groningen and Omlands, dated 1770; another of the fame, dated 1771; and a tradesman's token, the initials J. M.

By Mr CARDONNEL.

498. Edgar's fheet map of Peebles; an engraved fac fimile of the warrant for the execution of King Charles I.; a fheet plan of the city of Vienna and its environs; a half fheet view of Barrington Park, the feat of the Countefs of Talbot, drawn and engraved by J. Bonner; an etched portrait of Mr Robert Mein, with a copy of the Lord's prayer, written

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by him at the age of

1783.

in a circle of half an inch diameter; and a commiffion of George

Monck, commander in chief of all the forces in Great Britain and Ireland, appointing Je. June 12. remiah Smith to be a captain and major; dated 25th February 1659-60.

By WILLIAM FRASER, Efq; junior, of Fraserfield.

499. De Joanne Gordonio Vicecomite de Melgun, et Joanne Gordonio de Rothimay, in Arce Frendruaca combustis, poema. M. S.

4to.

By the Right Hon. LORD HAILES.

500. A copy of his Lordship's sketch of the life of John Barclay, author of Argenis,

By Mifs SHAW.

501. A lady's glove, of the old mode, of fine fhamoy leather, with a deep ftiff top, covered with gold and filver embroidery.

By Mr JAMES BATHGATE of Cramond.

502. A quantity of petrified fhells, of the cockle fpecies, from the limestone rock at Limekills, near Torryburn, termed the yolks of the stone by the workmen; and a fpecimen of a black inflammable matter, foft as dough, found in the fiffures of the limestone rock.

By Capt. LEWIS INNES of Balnacraig.

503. A half length original painting of Cardinal Innes.

By Mr ALEXANDER M'NAB Smith at Barchaftlan.

504. A pair of ancient forge tongs found buried under the fleep bank of a river in Glenorchy, thirty feet below the furface, and difcovered by the wafhing away of the mould which covered them. In the neighbourhood of the spot great quantities of charcoal were found, and other indications, that anciently there had been a smelting work there, though there remains no trace of the fame, either in the history or tradition of the country. fo, the stones of an ancient querne, or hand-mill, for grinding corn.

By WILLIAM THORNTON, Efq;

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505. The fum of two guineas; and a copy of an account of the late Captain Mounfey's death, who was killed in a duel, 19th March 1783.

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1783. June 12.

July 1.

By the Rev. Mr JOHN JAMIESON of Forfar.

506. A copy of the first edition of Tindal's New Teftament; Gerfhom de imitatione Chrifti, 12mo, with painted initials; a very old vulgate Bible, imperfect, 12mo; and a fet of old gold weights and scales, in a small box, made in the reign of King James VI.

By Mr JOHN BAIN Surveyor.

507. A drawing of an old grave-ftone, with infcriptions and arms, in a park eastward from Mr Warrander of Bruntsfield's houfe.

By Mr JAMES NEILSON.

508. A bronze coin of the Emperor Constantine the Great.

By Mr JAMES SOLAS DODD.

509. Two Ruffian pafchal eggs, the one gilt, the other crimson, with emblematical figures thereon.

By Mr CHARLES ELLIOT Bookfeller.

510. A copy of the British statutes at large, in 45 volumes in folio.

By Dr JOHN AITKEN.

511. A bodle of King Charles II.; another of King William and Queen Mary; and the uterus of a cow, preserved in spirits.

By JAMES BEATTIE, Efq; L. L. D.

512. A copy of his differtations, moral and critical. 4to. London, 1783.

By Mr ALEXANDER GARDNER Jeweller.

513, A small oval basso relievo in gold, of the head of Charles Francis Edward Stuart.

By Mr ALEXANDER AITCHIESON Jeweller.

514. Eighteen filver coins, viz. one of Nero, one of Vefpafian, one of Alexander III. King of Scotland, one of Mary Queen of Scots, one of King William and Queen Mary, dated 1694; fix English, viz. a penny of King Henry III. a two pence of King Charles I. a twopence of King Charles II. 1675, a threepence of King George II. 1743, two pennies of the fame King, in 1758 and 1760; a fmall Ruffian coin; two French coins; three Danish coins; and one coin of Holland; alfo eighty-nine copper coins, viz. three ancient Roman,

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