The Royal Proclamation of 13 August 1660 requiring persons possessing the 'wicked and traitorous' books of John Milton and John Goodwin to deliver them to the county sheriffs to be publicly burnt by the hangman at the next assizes.
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Item date: 1660
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £2,500
Institution: Milton's Cottage Trust
Town/City: Chalfont St Giles
County: Buckinghamshire
Item date: 12th century
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,680
Item cost: £31,200
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Robert Pullen (d.1146) was an outstanding English churchman, one of the first recorded lecturers in the University of Oxford and the first English cardinal. Archbishop Bancroft bequeathed one of the three surviving MSS of his sermons to Lambeth Palace Library in 1610.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £5,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £10,000
Institution: Kingston University
Town/City: London
About 180 letters written over four decades by Iris Murdoch, the novelist and philosopher to the writer and philosopher Denis Paul, her Oxford contemporary and lifelong friend.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,500
Item cost: £45,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Correspondence and papers of the Green Family of Knutsford, Cheshire, including 16 letters from Elizabeth Gaskell to Mary Green. Her husband, Henry Green, was from 1827-72 Minister of Brook Street Unitarian Chapel, Knutsford, the town immortalised by Mrs Gaskell as 'Cranford'.
Item date: 1934
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £570
Item cost: £570
Institution: Weiner Library
Town/City: London
A rare book by the journalist Michael Fry describing his experiences in Germany up to 1934. It contains an analysis of Nazism, the role of Hitler, and observations on 'The Jewish Question' and concentration camps.
Item date: 1800
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £8,000
Item cost: £42,100
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
An inscribed presentation copy of the second edition, containing Wordsworth's preface and a cancel rectifying the omission of fifteen lines of Wordsworth's 'Michael' from the book. Only eight copies of the second edition with the cancel are known to exist.
Item date: 1771
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: 1000
Item cost: 6695
Institution: National Archives of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A previously unrecorded drawing for the south and west elevations of the Court House. Robert Adam was Kinross County's MP 1768-74; the Court House was the major public building in his constituency, and he paid for the improvements in the south and west elevations himself.
Item date: 1632-1839
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £2,500
Item cost: £7,300
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria
An original court-book for Brough and Winton, 1705-1839, and transcripts of custumals, including indentured agreements between Philip, Lord Wharton, and his customary tenants of the manor of Ravenstonedale, 1579/80.
Item date: 15-16th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £903
Item cost: £3,360
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
50 deeds and documents, 15-16th cent,, relating to Mascy property, including deeds relating to the establishment and dissolution of the Hollinfare chantry chapel, and a court roll of the manor of Glazebrook, 15th cent. The collection supplements the Mascy deeds bought with FNL help in 2008
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £25,000 (£10,000 from the Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £1,250,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Siegfried's son George Sassoon sold many of his father's papers, some of which were acquired by Cambridge University Library; the 'Remaining Archive' of papers in his possession at his death in 2006 include a series of war diaries and notebooks, 1915-19, containing journal en