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Comprises accounts for the repair and building work carried out by the Earl of Warwick who was Naval commander for Parliament throughout the Civil War. The house was famous for having the first Orange House in England.

270 items, mostly from the first half of the 17th century, relating to the activities of Thomas Smyth landowner and Royalist MP for Bridgwater in the period leading up to the Civil War.

Includes memorandum book of Edmund Morton Pleydell, a memorandum book of tithes for Milbourne 1807 - 13, correspondence with George IV and some two hundred letters between members of the family at home and abroad from 1760s to 1860s.

A counter roll or check list kept by the Controller of the Wardrobe to monitor accounts of the Keeper. Lists expenses of the Royal Household of Edward I and Queen Eleanor. Purchased in memory of TS Blakeney, including 100 bequeathed by him and 100 donated by his friends

In a magnificent jewelled binding from Trier (illustrated as frontispiece to AR) Presented by John Ehrman in memory of his father Albert Ehrman, creator of the Broxbourne Library, together with some 2,000 other examples of fine bindings one hundred manuscripts and approximately one hundred incuna

Presented by John Ehrman, this is one of some 557 items which formed the Broxbourne collection of type specimens and books of typographical interest. The type specimens were listed in The Book Collector for 1956.

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

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

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

Printed by William Caxton 24 March 1479. A religious treatise on the mutability of the world and the certainty of death. One of only three perfect copies known