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The earliest known record of a religious guild in Nottingham, listing 207 members of the Guild of St Mary, both men and women, from the parishes of SS Mary, Peter and Nicholas, Nottingham, and further afield. even from as far as York.

An outstanding archive of the Aynho estate papers, title deeds, together with personal papers of members of the Cartwright family in public life, including William Ralph Cartwright, MP for Northamptonshire (d.1847); his son Sir Thomas Cartwright, minister in Frankfurt 1830-38 and ambassador to S

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was Clarenceux King of Arms, an office he claimed to have acquired 'in jest' when he resigned it in 1725. The Grant, signed by Anstis and Vanbrugh, is calligraphically written and finely illuminated.

Ralph Radcliffe, a Lancashire gentleman, bought the Carmelite Priory of Hitchin shortly after its surrender in 1539, and the family subsequently amassed a considerable estate in North-West Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire The archive includes over 200 medieval title deeds, court rolls, rentals, su

Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire, the ancestral home of the Massingberd family, housed an interesting library, of which, remarkably, many hundreds still survive in situ.

The Gaugains were a dynasty of minor painters and engravers of French origin but established in London by the mid-18th century. The present collection of letters of Philip Augustus Gaugain fl. 1783-1847) and other members of his family are of much interest for the history of the art trade.

Wesley's composition was completed in 1799, but it did not receive its first performance until 1826. Some parts are in Wesley's own hand, others are the work of Samuel Coad and another unidentified copyist.

The township of Forton, part of the pre-Conquest estates of Earl Tostig, passed to the newly-founded Premonstratensian Abbey of Cockersand in the late 12th century.

The letter-book contains copies of 87 of Pole's more important letters to popes, cardinals and sovereigns, including a moving letter written in 1541 after the execution of his mother, the Countess of Salisbury, in which he denounced Henry as another Nero, Herod or Caligula.

Iris Murdoch's letters to the French writer Raymond Queneau, mostly written 1946-75, contain her thoughts on her embryonic writing career, God, philosophy, her emotional state and much else, and are an invaluable source for tracking the influences that inspired and shaped her novels.