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Item date: 1224 - 1330
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 100
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

57 deeds, mainly grants of lands in Kelmarsh. One deed appears to relate to an early form of mortgage or loan on security of lands

Author: Sir Francis Carew
Item date: 1560 - 1611
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 550
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey

The weekly household accounts detail the usual consuption of the household including food for spaniels, hawks pigeons and swans and give menus for when Carew and his guests were staying at Beddington. Also includes the later inventory of Beddington House taken in 1764

Item date: 1484 - 1705
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 55
Institution: Sussex Archaeological Society
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Records approximately 50 courts, especially interesting during the Common wealth period.

Author: Frank Wild
Item date: 1908 - 9
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,730
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

In this diary Wild records Shackleton and his companions painful progress over the Polar Plateau, their decision to turn back and their desperate struggle to regain the ship. Provides many insights that were not part of the official record of the expedition

Item date: 1770-1815
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Brighton Public Library
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex

Consists of Bailiffs books and farming records, including a record of timber cut on the estate and notes of the exact amounts of work done by each man in the fields and the payment he received

Item date: 1148-68
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 220
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Notification by Gilbert de Pinkey to the Bishop of Lincoln that he has confirmed the grants made by his grandfather and father.

Author: Joseph Farington
Item date: 1794
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Describes a tour in Kent made in September 1794 (Add. MS 57492) presented by Theodore Besterman together with a notebook containing correspondence between Robert Strutt, 4th Lord Rayleigh and Dr Besterman, relating to spiritualism, 1932 (Add MS 57729)

Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Commences with the marriage treaty between Charles VIII and Anne de Bretagne 1491; the bulk of the volume are Acts of Francis I 1518-1543. Presented by TS Blakeney, Add MS 50866

Author: HC von Wersebe
Item date: 1783
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A military plan of Palghat fort, Malabar illustrating its capture in 1783 by Colonel William Fullarton and the Corps of Hanoverians from the Poligars of the southern peninsula. The author served with distinction in the engagement

Author: John Bunyan
Item date: 1682
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 35 14s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Fifth edition, an unrecorded piracy. Lacks B9, 10, 12