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Author: John Bellenden
Item date: 1822
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire

Book bound in Aberdeen. Presented by A Ehrman

Item date: 1413
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: 5
Institution: Borough of Winchelsea
Town/City: Winchelsea
County: East Sussex

A Charter granting Masses to be said for Vincent and Isabella Fynch, written on vellum with a seal in good condition

Author: George Morris of Shrewsbury
Item date: 1820-1859
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

8 folio volumes bound in vellum containing pedigrees of Shropshire families with coloured armorial bearings

Author: Henry of Lancaster
Item date: 1314
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: 30
Institution: Hereford Cathedral Library
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire

Grant not listed in Dugdales Monasticon, written in Norman French it is a fine example of the period and has a good impression of the seal of Henry of Lancaster, Lord of Monmouth. Illustrated as plate V of AR

Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Winchester Cathedral
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Presented by CER Clarabut

Author: William Pitt
Item date: 1780-1805
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London

Contain letters from William Fermor about import and export of coffee and the sufferings of Catholics under the land tax plus a letter from Pitt to Earl Camden in 1805 concerning emergency meansures to withstand an invasion. Presented by John Ehrman

Author: Bradshaw
Item date: 1848
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by John W Oliver with 20 books and 6 pamphlets of literary interest, mainly 18th and 19th century

Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Natural History Museum
Town/City: London

Contains 280 water colour drawings of plants with manuscript notes and a number of drawings including a sea monster found a Malta in 1649. Presented by Sir Eric Miller. Illustrated as plate IV of AR

Author: John Speed
Item date: 1614
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Fine copy of the scarcest edition, presented by CER Clarabut

Author: John Cleland
Item date: 1749
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Early edition of the notorious novel Fanny Hill with the supressed passage. Presented by EJ Dingwall with another edition, probably not printed before 1760 and The Woman of Honor, 1768 also attributed to Cleland