This defence of regicide was printed on or before 13th February 1649, some two weeks after the death of King Charles I. In The Tenure, Milton is developing his theory of civil liberty.
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Item date: 1649
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 4,950
Item cost: 4,950
Institution: Milton's Cottage Trust
Town/City: Chalfont St Giles
County: Buckinghamshire
Item date: 1758-60
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 1,600
Institution: Newstead Abbey
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
This account book details work carried out by Hardstaff at Newstead Abbey between 1758 and 1760 for William, 5th Lord Byron, great-uncle of the poet, at the time when the so called 'Wicked' Lord Byron was poised for this descent into financial ruin.
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,200
Institution: Newstead Abbey
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
This is a group of six documents which pertain to a secret and unsuccessful attempt by the 5th Lord Byron to lease Newstead Park for 21 years from 25th March 1776. They illuminate the strained relations between the 5th Lord and his son.
Item date: 1804-51
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 6,000
Item cost: 42,500
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) is one of the most important artists in the history of English watercolour painting. By 1804, he had met Dawson Turner, the Great Yarmouth banker, antiquarian, bibliophile and collector and in 1812 moved to Great Yarmouth.
Item date: 19th and 20th century
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: $19,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
This collection includes loose drawings by George Gilbert Scott Senior (1811-78), founder of an architectural dynasty, of buildings in England, France and Germany and 5 notebooks on restoration projects. The purchase includes sketchbooks by his son George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-97).
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: 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: 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: 16th to 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 70,000
Institution: Suffolk Archives
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 - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 456,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
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.