A few _incunabula_ and Aldines were purchased at Göttingen.
The annual list of donations was, for the first time, printed in this
year. It does not include, however, a large gift which was partly
received now, the presentation having been made in the year preceding.
It was the gift by Rev. Dr. Nath. Bridges of the MSS. collections made
by Mr. John Bridges for his _History of Northamptonshire_. They number
thirty-seven volumes in folio, eight in quarto, and one in octavo; and
consist chiefly of extracts from Public Records and from the Episcopal
Registers of Lincoln, the volumes in quarto containing Church notes for
the several parishes. Some account of them is given in Mr. Whalley's
preface to vol. i. of Bridges' _History_, published in 1791.