A Saxon Charter transcribed from the Textus Roffensis by Jacob Smith, when but 9 ½, at which Age he was very curious at those ancient Scripts, as I was informed by the ingenious Mrs. Elstob, who gave it me, which learned Gentlewoman is preparing a noble Edition of the Saxon Homilies; as her eminent Brother, the Reverend Mr. William Elstob, Rector of St. Swithin's London, is engaged in that of the Saxon Laws. Part of a Writing in a large engrossing Hand, and part of the very same so small, as scarce to be read without Spectacles, the Parchment being shrunk up by a Fire made in the Oven where it was concealed in the Wars. A Specimen very finely writ with a Tobacco-Pipe, by Ed. Smith M. A. being Part of the Lord's Prayer in Latin, Greek and English, very nicely performed upon Parchment. Don. Rev. Jac. Talbot D. D. Ling. Hebr. apud Cantabrigiensis Prof. Reg. A small one, very fine upon Paper, by Mr. Morton of Leedes, with a Pen-Pipe that he writ with. A Pen made of a Porcupine Quill, Scripta etiam Calamo Acantho-Coiritico. Other antique Pens over-laid with Silk and Silver, which must all give Place to that venerable Pen, wherewith the Reverend Mr. Mat. Henry writ the far greatest Part of his Expositions of the Bible, viz. from the Beginning of Leviticus to the End of the Old Testament (except one Sheet) which makes four Volumes in Folio, in a very close small Character: With it he wrote also all the Sermons (which were not a few) and other Tracts composed in his own Study, from Nov. 1705 to Aug. 1712, when I procured it from the pious Author of those excellent Practical Expositions.