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Author: Sir William Herrick
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 105,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Manuscript papers generated by Herrick as one of the Tellers of the Exchequer; 16 volumes of warrants to pay money with their associated receipts, three volumes of debenture slips, eight ledgers recording weekly payments and receipts and five computus rolls, all for an eight year period in the re

Author: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke
Item date: 1712 - 13
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,136
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

St John was Secretary of State at this time, and he was writing to Charles Boyle who was Envoy Extraordinary in Flanders. The letters cover the period April 1712 to October 1713 and are chiefly concerned with the negotiations which led to the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht

Author: Franz Joseph von Busmanshausen
Item date: 1691
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 250
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

An apparently unrecorded work, still in sheets, as delivered by the printer. A long duodecimo, the sheets would have simply been folded, unlike other kinds of the same format which require cutting first.

Author: Peter Meghen (Scribe)
Item date: 1516
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 18,450
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Maghen was a friend of Erasmus and produced manuscripts for the London market, in particular the small group of London humanists which included John Colet and Christopher Urswick

Author: Captain Louis Edward Nolan
Item date: 1854
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 13,226
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey

76 page notebook, diary entries from 5th September to 12 October 1854 with sketches and diagrams showing troop positions and orders of march. A detailed account of the early stages of the Crimean War, especially the Battle of the Alma.

Item date: 1547 - 48
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London

Includes the files for the counties of Oxfordshire to Yorkshire, in between are writs for Berks, Bucks, Beds, Northants, Rutland, Salop, Warwicks, Leics, Notts, Derbys, Lincoln and the City of York, each addressed to the appropriate Sheriff who was responsible for returning it at the required dat

Item date: 1720 - 1733
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 200
Institution: Religious Society of Friends
Town/City: London

Most of these tracts were generated by the polemical exchange resulting from the publication of Smallbrokes Vindications of the Miracles of our blessed Saviour, 1731

Item date: 1908 - 11
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 3,245
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London

350 working drawings for the RAC by Mews and David, mainly pen and ink and pencil with some hand-coloured on paper, linen and tracing paper. The plans show elevations, sections and details with a complete set of floor plans, designs for sky-lights and other details.

Author: Gaetano dAncora
Item date: 1792
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,633
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London

Plates of Roman remains at Pozzuoli. Also bought at this time were Antonio Plo y Camin: El arquitecto practico, civil, militar, y agrimensor, second edition, 1793; Antoine Marie Peyre: Projets darchitecture, 1812; ACQ de Quincey: Lettres crites de Londres Rome ...

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 28,500
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria

Collection contains 20 charters granting lands in and around Kirkby Thore to the Cistercian Abbey of Holm Cultram and 22 medieval deeds c oncerning land transactions in the Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby and Ousby districts.