Only known copy. In its original binding, also contains the following works: Augustine's De Origine animae; Hildebert of Tours: Expositio canonis missae and Ivo of Chartres: Sermo de sacramentis neophitorum habitus in sinodo
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Scott was Chaplain of The Victory, these letters are emotional accounts of Nelson's last hours and Scott's voyage home with the body to the State Funeral. Egerton MS 3782
Unpublished. Presented by TS Blakeney. Add MS 54351
Broadside, printed at Bicester. Presented by Peter Davies
First posthumous edition in a red morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
The roll of 1317-18 gives places of session at Dublin, Cashel, Tullow, Limerick and Kilmallock for pleas of the Crown before Edmund le Botiller, Justiciar of Ireland. The Roll from the reign of Henry V is the only known complete surviving example of a Common Bench roll from this period
Contain letters from literary figures of 19th century, including Wordsworth, and Southey. Also a lengthy account of a conversation with George IV in which the King expounded his views on Catholic Emancipation
Includes contemporary copy of a petition to the King by John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk asking to be restored to lands granted by Edward III; a note of the total value of the Duke's land holdings in Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex and Surrey in 1448
13 pages, quarto, evidently written at the request of an MP, the first two pages contain information relating to the payments received by the Earl of Orford, Admiral of the Fleet, from naval funds
A large collection of papers used by Cope to write his History of the Rifle Brigade, plus a collection of about 100 autograph letters of Military and Naval Officers who served in the Crimea, together with about 70 photographs, portraits and caricatures