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Author: Edith Cavell
Item date: 1912
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 44
Item cost: 192
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

Written in Brussels, Cavell expresses pleasure at the appointment of a female director for the lay nurses at Sanos hospital, describes progress at her own hospital at St Gilles, and mentions the shortage of nurses in Belgium

Author: Thomas Yardley of Worcester, glover
Item date: 1693 - 1711
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 16
Item cost: 65
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire

Detailed accounts of the sale and despatch of skins and parcels of gloves mainly to retailers in London shops

Author: Sir John Cope
Item date: 1691-96
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 90
Item cost: 360
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Cope was MP for Oxfordshire and for Banbury, and he also owned the Bramshill estate in Hampshire which became the family seat after his death.

Author: Robert Whitpaine (Surveyor)
Item date: 1682
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 21
Item cost: 84
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Plotted on vellum, hand coloured

Author: John Joseph Briggs
Item date: 1834 - 44
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 400
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office

The diary is the earliest and fullest of Briggs writings on Natural History

Author: Richard and Alexander Daniel
Item date: 1597 - 1668
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 120
Item cost: 850
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Richard Daniel, of Alverton, Penzance ,was a merchant engaged in trade at Middleburg, Holland. The book is a unique record of trade between the two countries at this period

Item date: 15th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 6,300
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent

The deeds are mainly for West Kent parishes, also includes family and estate correspondence of Sir Thomas Roberts and his agent Thomas Redford, plus Redfords legal papers as attorney and receiver of taxes in the area

Item date: 1644/5
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 480
Institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire

Signed by 13 officers of the Northern Horse. A useful supplement to the MS and printed material for the study of the Civil War in York and Yorkshire already in the Minster Library

Item date: 1714
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 125
Item cost: 400
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Map in ink and colour on vellum drawn by John Pooke who owned the estate

Item date: 1816 - 1860
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,850
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

140 drawings of Harveys estate, centred on Mousehold House, remodelled by Stephen Mear the Norwich architect, in 1821. Also a series of watercolour elevations by the minor Norwich-school artist John Ninham