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Author: Laurence Chaderton
Item date: 16th & 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 2,200
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Chaderton was first Master of Emmanuel College, appointed 1584. The volume contains numerous papers concerning puritan criticisms of the anglican liturgy

Author: B Cole
Item date: 1746
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 200
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey

An 18th century drill book with 97 plates

Author: William Michael Rossetti
Item date: 1888 - 1911
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 125
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

The letters make frequent reference to the work of DG Rossetti and discuss the work of many writers such as Swinburne. Also acquired at this time were 10 letter sof Michael Frederick Halliday, a close friend of Millais, to William Holman Hunt. 25 of the grant was given by Simon Nowell-Smith

Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire

A collection of Civil War pamphlets, broadsides and letters which were all sent to David Pennant in his capacity as High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1642 and preserved by him.

Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire

Lot 318 is an oration of Elizabeth I made in St Marys Church to the University in 1564; Lot335 is a briefe extract of such charges as Sir William Pelham sustayned in Irland service 1579- 1580 and Lo t 342 is the Orders and instructions of Robert Earl of Lindsay Admiral of His Majestys fleet, 1635

Author: George Stephenson
Item date: 1829
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library

An important letter describing the preparations for the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the worlds first major railway line

Item date: 14th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

Includes Yarmouth Frere MSS being the Yarmouth section of the collection of Peter Le Neve, Francis Blomefield and other Norfolk antiquaries

Item date: 1890 - 1938
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

An important record of Norfolk villages around 1900

Author: William F Knight
Item date: 1844-47
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Northamptonshire Public Libraries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Letters largely concern John Clare the poet and contain copies of 13 hitherto unpublished or variant poems. Also includes three letters from Clare to Knight complaining that he cannot leave the Asylum where Knight became House Steward in 1845

Item date: 1652-1842
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 75
Institution: West Sussex Record Office
Town/City: Chichester
County: West Sussex

Survey of the Demense 1652, map of the Mannor 1724, designs for the house by Jospeh Bonomi 1791; map of Woolhouse Farm 1816