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Produced at the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Magdalen at Lanercost, Cumberland, giving a detailed record of all the endowments from the foundation in 1165 -9.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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