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Copy of an original map of 1652, since lost. Made for Samuel Dixon when he took on the lease of the Wallingtons estate from Magdalen College, Oxford.

A remarkable series of 1285 letters, written by Masefield to Audrey Napier-Smith, violinist in the Hall orchestra, provides an invaluable record of the Poet Laureate in his last 15 years.

Molesworth was the founder of the philosophically radical London Review, which was supervised closely by Mill. The present letters provide a great deal of detail on the policy and development of the magazine, together with comments on individual articles and contributors.

The major part of the archive relates to the Henbury Hall estate, bought by Thomas Brocklehurst in 1875.

Comprises a case book of male pauper lunatics 1873 - 75, and three volumes of post-mortem notes 1884 - 89, 1889 - 93 and 1900 - 02.

190 volumes of detailed inventories and valuations dated between 1890 and 1966. The names, addresses and occupiers of every property are given, with room-by-room itemised lists of furniture, fittings, equipment and, in the case of commercial premises, stock-in-trade.

This document antedates the earliest surviving archives of Hastings Corporation by almost a century. It details the sufficiency and number of the men of Hastings ready to repel an invasion from France or Flanders from whence Perkin Warbeck had tried to invade a year earlier

The earliest map is the work of John Walker senior and his son for Thomas Mildmay, dated to about 1600. The second map, drawn by anothe r member of the Walker family, Samuel, was drawn for Sir Henry Mildmay in 1623.

Manuscript journal of two tours made by Bunbury to Rome and to Florence, before he became well known as a caricaturist in London.

Manuscript deeds of various properties at Chawton 1304 - 1525, together with a volume of transcribed deeds for Chawton 1547 - 1621. These considerably augment the papers already in the Record Office from the Knight family archive for the medieval period.