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The gift of Henry Davis. The most important single gift since the Huth Bequest of 1910. Includes a 15th century Canterbury blind-stamped binding, books from the libraries of Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Books bound by Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne.

15 Court Books, small folio in vellum wrappers or boards. The Manor of Downton, near Salisbury belonged from the earliest times to the Bishops of Winchester who leased it out, most notably at the time of these records to the Earls of Pembroke.

The Rolls relate to the manors of East Betchworth and Aglands Moor

Original deeds for a Priory for which no cartulary exists, almost 800 deeds of the Priory's property in Staffordshire, some for a Lost Village' that would have disappeared at the Black Death

These deeds give material information about the early history of the manor of Kinlet and the genealogy of the Brampton family, one of the few which can be traced with certainty beyond Domesday

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

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Unpublished.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