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Author: Samuel Tomlyns and others
Item date: 1650s - 1660s
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 312
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

A group of letters from various Puritan divines offering spiritual consolation and guidance to the Cromwells in the immediate aftermath of the Restoration

Item date: late 13th century - 1486
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 1,241
Institution: Buckinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Aylesbury
County: Buckinghamshire

A group of hitherto unrecorded charters for Great and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire. There are 13 charters bearing seals from before 1289 comprising successive conveyances of small piece of land belonging to John le Waleys

Author: Henry Austin Dobson
Item date: 1875
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Published in the London Magazine November 1875, but never reprinted. Presented by Christopher Dobson, grandson of the poet

Author: Gilbert White
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 111,500
Institution: Gilbert White's House
Town/City: Selborne
County: Hampshire

Gives new insight into the way White worked up personal letters into a form suitable for publication

Author: William Williams (Surveyor)
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 400
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire

Maps of the estate of Edward Williams of Plas Newydd, finely executed with decorative cartouches and interesting picture of Plas Newydd (Nerquis Hall)

Author: William Gilpin
Item date: 1809
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,250
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The 20 aquatint plates have been replaced with 23 wash drawings of which 3 were unpublished. These drawings appear to derive from Gilpins watercolour sketch book and are the originals from which the published plates were made

Author: Terence Rattigan
Item date: 1945 - 61
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: Deposited
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Both drafts with extensive alterations and additions were given by Rattigan to his secretary in fine bindings by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Deposited by Miss Herring at the Bodleian

Author: Anon
Item date: 1548
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

STC11383 presented by HW Pratley.

Item date: late 18th century
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire

229 folios with index. Most entries refer to the Wootton Basset and Swindon areas. The volume gives full details of the parties, their occupations, the properties concerned and the format of the deeds

Item date: 1681
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 27
Item cost: 111
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

Authorizes the purchase of pasturage land outside the city by the Burgesses