An important addition to the British Museum collection, announced on Jan. 8, is a charter of William li, to Battle Abbey, which finishes with the words "in all other things as the charter of my father doth witness," an allusion to an earlier charter granted by William the Conqueror, states the "Daily Telegraph and "Morning Post,'
The King's Great Seal is attached and is almost complete. An interesting feature is that instead of their names the King and several nobles and bishops have made crosses, beneath which their names have been inscribed.
Another gift is the valuable thirteenth-century Canterbury manuscript written at Christ Church, Canterbury, probably about 1275, and ently bought for the Museum by Lord Wakefield The National Art Collections Fund has presented a slab from the balustrade of a staircase at Persepolis, dating from the reign of Darius the Great or of Xerxes, between 520 and
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