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Item date: 1381-9
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 54
Item cost: 280
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Deeds relating to the manor of Pollyng, Odiham, the property of the Esturmy family.

Author: Warren Hastings
Item date: 1816
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 18
Item cost: 38
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire

Letter about the church at Hastings estate at Daylesford, which he was in the process of rebuilding

Item date: 1623
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Presented by Mrs Marian Webb from the library of the late Christopher Webb. Also included in the gift were a Greek New Testament of 1550 (the editio Regia) and MF Quintilianus Institutiones Oratoriae, 1480

Item date: 17th - 20th century
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1448
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

A collection of some 500 volumes from the library of the liturgical scholar BJ Wigan

Item date: 13th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 100,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands

Approximately 2000 items, no less than 1188 being earlier than 1500

Author: John Dalton
Item date: 1788 - 1844
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

Collection of over 200 items, 75 being holograph. There are 40 scientific manuscripts including lectures and papers relating to Daltons discoveries, laboratory notes and meteorological observations

Author: Gilbert Burnet
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Translation by the Huguenot refugee de Rosemond. Presented by John Fuggles together with John Marsh: The great sin and danger of striving with God. A sermon preached against murder and suicide at the funeral of Lydia Beadle at Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 1783

Author: John Flamsteed
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 7,350
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Possibly a proof copy of the extremely rare supressed edition, used by Halley as a working tool for his research. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 26,619
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Eleven volumes of manuscript music, including Duncan Burnetts book, a collection of 23 keyboard pieces by Scottish and English composers c.1600; Clement Matchetts book 1612, keyboard pieces containing amongst others the only known virginal piece by Willbye; Lady Jean Campbells book c.1635 of Scot

Item date: 1772 - 1885
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 576
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk

The Yearly Meeting Advices of the Suffolk Society 1772-1858; a volume of minutes of meetings of the Suffolk Quarterly Meeting 1862-81 and a volume of minutes of ministers and elders of Woodbridge Monthly Meeting 1835 - 85.