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Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 175
Item cost: 700
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Deeds and poll tax assessments with 58 letters b etween family members 1658 - 1665

Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 175
Item cost: 700
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Includes a roll of depostions taken in 1635 in which witnesses were asked 34 questions about the demolition of Grafton Manor House and the use of the materials in building Stoke Park House for Sir Francis Crane

Author: Martin Luther
Item date: 1531
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,540
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

A unique copy of the edition of 1531, embellished with fine woodcuts and initials in the style of Hans Weiditz. Bound with Luthers sermons on Genesis in the first edition

Author: Antoine Teissier
Item date: 1700
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Second edition, published at The Hague. Contains an account of the education of children in France, a matter of particular concern to Locke. The library also acquired Fontenelles Entretiens sur la pluralit des mondes, 1686, H& L 1151

Author: Martin Luther
Item date: 1527
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 562
Item cost: 562
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

First German edition, translated by Luthers enemy Hieronymus Emser, printed at Dresden by Wolfgang Stokel

Author: William Camden
Item date: 1695
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,629
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Heavily annotated by the antiquary William Stukeley both on maps and plates and in the margins, noting local finds of Roman coins etc in Lincolnshire. Illustrated in AR at item 4

Author: Field-Marshal Earl Haig
Item date: 1890s - 1918
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 450,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A most important collection of papers, spanning Haigs entire military career, from exercise books used at Staff College to the personal diary he kept throughout the First World War.

Author: AH Church and RH Soden-Smith
Item date: 1890
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Published by the authors at Shelsley, Kew Gardens and bound by Gilbert Redgrave in brown morocco, stamped in blind with an elaborate border and centre panel showing a bird in each corner and a wreath of flowers in the centre. Presented by CER Clarabut

Item date: mid 13th century
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

190 leaves with 6 magnificent full page miniatures together with a large Beatus initial occupying a whole page. The paintings appear to show the influence of Matthew Paris and the school of St Albans Abbey

Author: Richard Cobbold
Item date: 1862
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,265
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk

Cobbold was rector of Wortham in Suffolk and spent years writing up a perceptive account of the lives characters and habitations of his parishoners, 100 of whom are depicted in these two volumes. Illustrated in AR