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A collection of prayers takenfrom Scripture, arranged by the days of the week. Extremely popular, it went through 17 editions, from 1579, all of which are extremely scarce, a sure sign of a books popularity as the copies were read until they fell to pieces.

The single most important book on clocks, by the inventor of the pendulum clock.

Bills of loading, posters for Shipping Lines advertising routes between Liverpool and Glasgow; 35 forms for various dates in 1881 and 1882 of the Consulate of the United States listing goods and prices and documenting the shipping process from manufacturer to export

70 Privy Council letters to the Archbishops of Canterbury, many relating to a period when the registers of the Privy council are missing. Many letters to and from Burghley and Walsingham.

Extensive correspondence , both letters received and carbon copies of those sent, with translators, literary consultants, editors, publishing houses, academics, funding bodies, the Arts Council and others.

460 medieval deeds and documents, seven albums of copy deeds, legal papers accounts and vouchers ranging from the 14th to the 19th centuries; eight pedigree rolls of the Leigh and related families c.1580 to 1816, and various other papers including correspondence between the Reverend Peter Leigh a

Many extremely rare pamphlets relating to County Durham, on topics such as parliamentary reform, local politics, harbour improvement, local antiquities and local printing

93 quarto leaves, partly a notebook of Biblical quotations and prayers, but also containing accounts of the Fairfaxes and the Careys (his wifes family) during the civil war and Fairfaxs own involvement in the Restoration, and subsequent life as an Equerry of Charles II

Formerly part of the Graves Hamilton estate papers, this map drawn on parchment was sold separately from the main collection acquired with the help of FONL in 1987.

Boxes of deeds and papers relating to four main groups.