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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
Item date: 13th - 14th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
A collection of 152 charters, many relating to Tattingstone and Bentley
Item date: 1246 - 1828
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 1,600
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
A very diverse collection, contains 38 deeds relating to Lichfield 1307 - 1607 with important topographical information and six Leveson family deeds to complement the Leveson-Gower papers already in the Record Office
Item date: 13th century - 1537
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 400
Institution: SW Heritage Trust: Somerset Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Taunton
County: Somerset
41 medieval deeds, bringing to 84 the number recovered of the 97 once known to have existed
Author: Lord Lyttleton
Item date: 1780
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First edition, presented by John Ehrman
Item date: late 15th century
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £5,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A collection of prayers and devotions written and illuminated, probably in France or the Low Countries, for Robert Blackadder, first Archbishop of Glasgow.
Author: Robert Pont
Item date: 1604
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,300
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
The only known copy to have survived; the Rev Robert Pont played an important part in the civil and religious movements in Scotland, in the Reformed interest
Author: William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
Item date: 1680s - 1737
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 190
Institution: Christ Church, University of Oxford
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Wakes library and some papers were bequeathed by him to the College. The present collection of letters includes correspondence with Friedrich Spanheim, Professor of Theology at Leiden on Sociniansim
Author: Sir Richard Tempest
Item date: not known
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 220
Item cost: 220
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A defence of the Roman Catholic religion; not in Wing or Clancys English Catholic Books 1641-1700
Author: Thomas Hardy (radical politician)
Item date: 1827
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Hardy was a bootmaker and promoter of parliamentary reform as early as 1792, he was tried for treason with Horne Tooke . Presented by John Ehrman