The Hengrave Hall Manuscripts represent one of the finest surviving Tudor archives. They comprise the papers of the Kytsons (or Kitsons), Gages and Rokewoods, whose main seat was Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.
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Item date: 12th - 2oth centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 456,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: 16th to 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 70,000
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
The collection represents the East Anglian portion of the working library of heraldic and genealogical manuscripts collected from the 1960s onwards by Miss Joan Corder of Ipswich.
Item date: 12th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 15,000
Item cost: 1,760,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
The Sutherland Papers are the archive of the Leveson-Gower family, successively Earls Gower, Marquesses of Stafford and Dukes of Sutherland. Their former home in Staffordshire was Trentham Hall, designed by Sir Charles Barry and demolished in 1911.
Item date: 12th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 69,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
The collection fills 250 boxes and conatins material from the 12th to the 20th centuries, including nearly 800 medieval deeds relating to Lilleshall Abbey, Wombridge Priory, Shrewsbury Abbey and their estates.
Item date: 17th and 18th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 1,692
Item cost: 1,692
Institution: Royal Society
Town/City: London
The Royal Society contains a fine library of early scientific books and manuscripts.
Item date: 1591
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 421,444 (tax remission)
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This is one of the most important keyboard music manuscript from 16th century England. It is the earliest of four surviving MSS of this time, the others being those of Thomas Weelkes and Will Forster (BL) and the Fitzwilliam virginal book (Cambridge).
Item date: 1795
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Roget (1779-1869), best known for his Thesaurus, studied medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1795, he toured the Highlands with his uncle (Sir) Samuel Romilly, the lawyre and reforming politician.
Item date: 17th - 19th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 710,000 (tax remission)
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The archive begins with John Coleridge, vicar & schoolmaster of Ottery St Mary, and his ancestors back to the 17th century.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 4,400
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
This substantial collection the surviving bulk of the working research papers and professional and personal correspondence of Ernest Martin (d. 2005), an important figure in North Devon and the West Country, who made a substantial contribution to social, agricultural and local history.
Item date: c. 1921 to 1949
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 9,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
The collection consists of c. 105 architectural drawings by Philip Tilden (1887-1956), representing 20 schemes and including alterations to Stoke Edith, Herefordshire and Anthony House, Cornwall. Many drawings are annotated or signed by Tilden.