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An important addition to the Library's collection of early Scottish scientific papers, this manuscript, in a contemporary calf binding, includes sections on mathematics, law and astronomy, with notes and ex libris inscription indicating that it was the work of William Baird of Dysart, Fife.<

In 1768 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) became an excise officer in Lewes, where he lodged at Bull House with the nonconformist grocer Samuel Ollive, whose daughter Elizabeth he married in 1771. In 1774 the marriage broke up, Paine's business failed and he was dismissed from the excise service.

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.

A substantial group of 95 medieval deeds relating mostly to the Gore family. Thomas Gore, the antiquary and contemporary of John Aubrey, transcribed them for the manuscript history of his family, 'Syntagma Genealogicum', now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A very early partly coloured map of part of the parish of Dormston, seen and copied by the Worcestershire antiquary Peter Prattinton in 1826, who described it as 'a very old rude map', and then lost to sight for 180 years.

The substantial personal and estate archive of a prominent and well-connected family owning nearly 12,000 acres in Norfolk.

A portfolio of 24 drawings, fourteen of Rufford Abbey, five of Ollerton Hall, three of a proposed church at Ollerton, one possibly of Osberton Hall and one unidentified. They were probably commissioned by Sir George Savile, 8th Bt. (1726-1784), the owner of Rufford Abbey and Ollerton Hall.

This fine charter is a confirmation of a grant of nine bovates of land in Eakring, Nottinghamshire by Matthew, Abbott of Rufford, to Osbert de Capella and Emma his wife. A seal of Osbert depicting his device (a wheel?) is attached to the charter.

Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889 - 1968) was one of the leading provincial architects of his day.

The 4,000 boxes containing the Broadlands Archives, dating from the 16-20th centuries, are one of the UK’s most important family and estate collections.