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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

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