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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

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

Includes court books and enclosure commissioners minutes. The Hemingford estate records consist of more than 2500 documents relating chiefly to the affairs of Captain Henry Sholto Douglas

Cummins wrote the first biography of Edith Somerville, based largely on 366 letters written to her by Somerville, now gathered into this collection together with Cummins own records of her visits to the Somerville household in Co. Cork.

570 letters bound into 11 volumes by the Chester bookseller J Seacombe shortly after Mrs Piozzis death. The Williams family were neighbours of the Piozzis in Wales and amongst their closest friends.

Queen Elizabeths original grant of Arms to the City of Westminster, followed the incorporation of the City as a seat of municipal government

A complete run of the magazine, an archive of MSS submitted for publication and corrected galley proofs. Letters and poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, letters and an article by Dylan Thomas and by Augustus John.

Rare early Dublin edition with significant textual variants