Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4

by Pascual de Gayangos; British Museum. Department of Manuscripts

2. “Consulta original azerca de la religion de San Francisco,” with the opinion of the Council of State, “Madrid y Março 27 de 1639.” 204-12 ff.

3. “Puntos de un memorial que se ha dado por persona zelosa.” Beg.: ‘Que el General de San Francisco.’ 210-2 ff.

4. Petition of F^r. Joseph de la Cruz, lector jubilado y ministro provincial de la provincia de Castilla to Fray Alonso Salizanes, minister general of his order; Madrid, 6 Oct. 1666; attested by F^r. Pedro Arias del Castillo, secretary of the province 319 ff.

SECT. XXI.—PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Add. 22,150. Paper, in 4to., ff. 240, xviii. cent.

“Cartas originales del Reverendo Padre Maestro Fray Diego Tello [Lasso de la Vega] de la Provincia de Andalucia, á diferentes sugetos; halladas entre los papeles que dejó el Reverendo Padro Maestro Fray Raymundo Josef Rebollida, ambos del Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced. Contienen varios puntos de Erudicion, Historia y Politica. Año 1779.”

The letters, which are almost all original, range between the 13th of March, 1728, and the 1st of August, 1763; a few, to the 23d of April, 1735, are dated from Rome; the remainder from Lorca, Murcia, and other towns in Spain. They are addressed either to Padre Maestro Fr. Vicente Maria Oliver or to P^e. Fr. Raymundo Josef Rebollida.

Add. 23,733. Paper, in 4to., ff. 137, xviii. cent.

“Cartas originales de Grandes de España y titulos de Castilla á Don Fernando [Joseph] de Velasco,” 1747-1779, in two volumes, preceded (ff. 1-4) by a letter in English of Anthony Merry to Dawson Turner, Esq^re., Yarmouth, dat. Herringfleet Hall, Sept. 25, 1821, giving an account of the Collection, the contents of the first volume being as follows:—