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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Includes eight poems by Byron composed in the period 1812-15, She Walks in Beauty among them described as Lines written by Lord Byron after seeing Mrs Wilmot at Lansdowne House). Presented by RG Powell in memory of Frank and Hilda Gordon. Add MS 58802

Presented by Dr Theodore Besterman for the newly founded Voltaire Room in the Institution together with 367 French plays of the mid and late 18th century, plus the first four collected editions of the Works totalling 156 volumes.