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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

Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The Major part of the roll was already at the BL. It shows a lively series of coloured drawings of equestrian knights engaged in combat with sword and lance, their tabards and horse trappings dislaying their arms. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Author: Sir Sydney Cockerell
Item date: 1920 - 1962
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 260
Item cost: 260
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

70 letters and postcards mainly relating to Cockerell and Millars shared passion for illuminated manuscripts. Add MS 58212

Author: John Leighe
Item date: 1588-9
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

82 coloured coats of arms taken by Leighe from the stained-glass of All Hallows Church, Northampton, which was destroyed by fire in 1675. Hitherto the heraldry was known only in an uncoloured, undated version in the BL and Bodleian

Author: Alfred Tennyson
Item date: 1873
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 500
Institution: Lincoln Central Library, Tennyson Research Centre
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire

An early draft of the later version of the poem, published in 1873 with numerous textual variants

Item date: 1180 - 1399
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

31 deeds, mostly grants of lands with many good seals still intact. 14 of the deeds relate to the Waleran family from the Uffculme area

Item date: 1690s - 1790s
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 500
Institution: Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim

The letters contain much information, political and social, about England and Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Item date: 1645
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 60
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: Westminster Abbey
Town/City: London

Evidently produced for John Williams, Dean of Westminster and Archbishop of York.

Author: John Vyel and Edmund Kyngyston
Item date: 1428
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A memorandum of the observances at Beckets shrine written by two monks of Christ Church Canterbury, who were guardians of the shrine. Gives an overall picture of the cult of the saint with attendant religious and tourist industries