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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

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