The records of a Warwickshire landed family extending over 800 years, comprising a large number of medieval deeds, including significant numbers for the estates of Bordesley Abbey; estate and household account books from 1662 to the 20th century; and over 2,000 items of correspondence, including
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Item date: 12th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £72,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
Item date: 12th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £15,000
Item cost: £150,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
The bulk of this large family archive consists of deeds of the family estates, centered on Warwick and Lillington, dating from the 12-19th centuries.
Item date: 1539-40
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,000
Item cost: £63,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
A 'particular book' of James Nedeham, Clerk and Surveyor of the King's Works, 1539-40, recording detailed accounts for works at Greenwich, Westminster Hall, Windsor Castle, Woking Palace and elsewhere.
Item date: c.1670
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,000
Item cost: £85,000
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Piero Cavalli was the foremost Italian opera composer of the mid-17th century, and Erismena was first performed in Venice in 1655. The present MS, dating from c.1670 and in its original goatskin binding, contains the text in English translation.
Item date: 1263-1944
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £150,000
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
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
Item date: 19th - 21st centuries
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,000
Item cost: £175,000
Institution: Glasgow University Library
Town/City: Glasgow
The Glasgow firm of Templeton/Stoddard was the most important manufacturer of high-quality carpet in the British Empire.
Item date: 1554
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,631
Item cost: £6,075
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire
Grant by Queen Mary I of lands in northern Flintshire to John David ap Griffyn ap Llewelen, 9 May 1554, with an initial portrait miniature of the Queen.
Item date: 1895
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £30,000
Item cost: £176,000
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
The autograph MS of Jude the Obscure, one of the greatest and most controversial of Hardy's novels, was presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by the author in 1911.
Item date: 1638
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £250
Item cost: £250
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
A map of the lands of Anthony Fowle in the parishes of Wythiham and Retherfield, in ink and colour on vellum. John Pattenden of Lamberhurst was a noted mapmaker in East Sussex and Kent.
Item date: c.1635
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £8,000
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Transcripts of rentals and custumals of manors in the barony of Lewes and other documents relating to Lewes, 1440, 1535-c.1635, compiled by John Rowe, a lawyer (d.1639). The book was published by the Sussex Record Society in 1928.