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Displaying 1081 - 1090 of 1973
Item date: 1777 - 79
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 220
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Contains cases dealing with trespass, non-payment of costs, theft, and disagreements relating to the smelting of tin

Item date: 1584
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

24 pages listing fields strip by strip in minute detail, providing valuable information on place names and personal names

Author: BS Johnson
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London

Proof copies and first editions of his books, plus periodicals containing short stories and poems written by Johnson. Also a group of letters from Johnson to John Idris Jones, Welsh poet and publisher

Author: Tom Blackburn
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

12 books of his poems, a novel, an anthology, a libretto, a volume of criticism and the corrected typescript of his fictional autobiography A clip of steel. Presented by BC Bloomfield

Item date: 16th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These papers document the activities of one of Englands most notable families. From the early years there is the journal of George Trimmer Savile, Marquis of Halifax of his conversations with William III; 145 boxes of the correspondence of Georgiana Poyntz, wife of the first Earl.

Author: Giuseppi Remondini e figli
Item date: 1797 - 1799
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 440
Item cost: 440
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The first catalogue issued in Italy arranged according to the principles established by Joseph Strutt in his Biographical Directory of Engravers 1785 - 86. Works by contemporary painters are offered for sale and there is an emphasis on prints in newly developed techniques such as aquatint

Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 600
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Thomas Barlow, Bodleys Librarian 1652-60, identifield the contents of the MS on p22 and Anthony Wood wrote his name and the date 1670 at the end of the text. The original document belonged to Thomas Cole in 1670 and reached the Bodleian in 1755 in the bequest of Thomas Rawlinson

Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

Contains deeds relating to 60 Devon parishes, approximately 500 items dating before 1500. There are 35 court rolls for Haccombe (where the Carew estate was based), the composition of the Church at Holne in 1329 and a document of nullification of a marriage in 1374

Author: John Richards of Warmwell
Item date: 1697-1701
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 165
Item cost: 660
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset

Parts of this diary were published by William Barnes the Dorset dialect poet

Author: Reverend John Harrison and the Gifford family of D uffield Bank
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 190
Item cost: 765
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office

450 items; they show the origins, family histories and prevailing interests of a coherent group of middle class people in the Midlands