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Item date: 1644/5
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 480
Institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire

Signed by 13 officers of the Northern Horse. A useful supplement to the MS and printed material for the study of the Civil War in York and Yorkshire already in the Minster Library

Item date: 1714
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 125
Item cost: 400
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Map in ink and colour on vellum drawn by John Pooke who owned the estate

Item date: 1816 - 1860
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,850
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

140 drawings of Harveys estate, centred on Mousehold House, remodelled by Stephen Mear the Norwich architect, in 1821. Also a series of watercolour elevations by the minor Norwich-school artist John Ninham

Item date: 1864 - 70
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 450
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

Set of drawings for a station on the London and North Western railway, signed by various engineers. Shows the wide range of accomodation necessary for men and horses, fuel and goods

Author: William Burgess (Surveyor)
Item date: 1740
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 726
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Records the topography of the Cranbury estate in detail with decorative embellishments including surveying instruments and a full length portrait of Burgess

Item date: 1252 - 1370
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria

Produced at the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Magdalen at Lanercost, Cumberland, giving a detailed record of all the endowments from the foundation in 1165 -9.

Item date: 1777 - 79
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 220
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Contains cases dealing with trespass, non-payment of costs, theft, and disagreements relating to the smelting of tin

Item date: 1584
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

24 pages listing fields strip by strip in minute detail, providing valuable information on place names and personal names

Author: BS Johnson
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London

Proof copies and first editions of his books, plus periodicals containing short stories and poems written by Johnson. Also a group of letters from Johnson to John Idris Jones, Welsh poet and publisher

Author: Tom Blackburn
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

12 books of his poems, a novel, an anthology, a libretto, a volume of criticism and the corrected typescript of his fictional autobiography A clip of steel. Presented by BC Bloomfield