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Papers mostly relating to the 17th-century Fen Drainage Project accumulated by Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Bart. (1563-1645), his son Sir Miles Sandys and the elder Sir Miles's great-nephew, Col Samuel Sandys (d.1685).

Dr Bent Juel-Jensen, a former Medical Officer to the University of Oxford, was one of the principal book collectors of his generation and a generous benefactor to the Bodleian Library, to which he made outstanding gifts of books in his lifetime.

Scott's account of the rediscovery of the Scottish Regalia, which were sealed up in 1707 by order of the Treasury Commissioners, and kept in a chest in the Crown Room of Edinburgh Castle, lest the sight of them should inspire separatist sentiment.

A rare and important publication drawing attention to the close ties between the women's dress reform movements in Germany and Scotland. It is a significant addition the Museum's holdings on these movements.

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.

Paul Nash (1889-1946) spent more time and care on his illustrations of Sir Thomas Browne's famous work, first published in 1658, than on any other of his book projects. The present copy, no.

A volume of autograph contemporary copies of letters by Andrew Lumisden, antiquary and Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, for the year 1763.

Stowell (1800-58) trained for the Congregational ministry at Blackburn Academy, served pastorates in North Shields and Masborough and became President of Cheshunt College in 1850. The manuscript contains 240 pages and is a substantial work of some 90,000 words.

The bifolium, which contains readings for Holy Week, comes from a magnificant gospel lectionary which is likely to have been owned by the Cathedral in the Middle Ages and dismembered in the Reformation. Canterbury Cathedral Archives already had a bifolium from this lectionary.

This collection contains an archive of manorial records of Dullingham, near Newmarket covering the period 1630-1813 including substantial court rolls and books and minutes. Twenty deeds of the Hanger family of Little Raveley (1687-1799) was acquired at the same time.