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Author: Anon
Item date: 1705
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

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

Author: Sir William Cope
Item date: 11865-75
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey

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

Author: Petty Officer Patrick Keohane
Item date: 1910-1913
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Keohane was a member of Scott's last expedidition and a member of the seach party that found the bodies of Scott and his companions in November 1913

Author: Rev William Gilpin
Item date: 1804
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Broadsheet, presented by Peter Davies

Author: John Webster
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 400
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh

Acquired with 600 other books, the majority 17th century English drama. As well as the first of The White Devil, Webster is represented by firsts of The Devils law-case, and Appius and Virginia, plus first, second and third editions of The Duchess of Malfy [sic].

Item date: 1285-1325
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

This is the earliest survey of the temporalities of the See of Canterbury to survive and contains much matter copied from earlier, now lost, documents

Item date: 14th & 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire

Terrier of lands in Lincoln belonging to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral. A 15th century Psalter and a vellum roll of rental of lands belonging to the Guild of Corpus Christi, Boston, 1489

Author: Captain Dawtrey Cooper RN
Item date: 1628
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 300
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

A good day to day account of the Earl of Lindseys expedition to relieve the Hugenot defenders of La Rochelle. Purchased with The Journal of Jeremy Roch 1665-92 a naval captain who had many adventures including shipwreck and capture by French privateers.

Author: John Buckler
Item date: 1810
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Contains 72 fine drawings of North Wales with views of cathedrals, churches and castles, bound in contemporary russia, gilt

Author: Francesco Marcaldi
Item date: 1580
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Shows interesting evidence of an attempt to bring the plight of Mary Queen of Scots to the attention of prominent Italian political figures. Presented by Matthew Stirling