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65 documents, many are letters addressed to Captain Thomas Brodnax of Canterbury and Godmersham Park, giving military commands and are signed by key figures including John Dixwell, one of the regicides.

A volume of meditations and directions on the Christian life, written shortly before the Civil War with a series of 11 illuminated initials, incorporating droll faces, decorated with flowers, leaves, acorns, grapes and ears of wheat in a charming naive style reminiscent of Stuart needlework.

The earliest known Norfolk swan roll, hitherto unrecorded before its appearance at auction. There are 99 charming illustrations of swans heads in black and red ink with their distinctive ownership marks and the owners names written above.

Acquired together with a sketch book with drawings by Lady Frances Elizabeth Compton, presumably the pupil of JC Nattes.

Previously unknown to scholars, this is the farewell address of the first director of the RCM, whose wise guidance from 1882 soon made the College an important part of the musical life of the nation

10 volumes, the major source and inspiration for Ruskins The Bible of Amiens, a combination of religious exposition and architectural history. This set was probably taken to France by Ruskin as there is a sketch of tracery in pencil on a flyleaf in volume 6, dated Beauvais 1888.

The two main series of these documents relate to the selection of MPs and to the water supply of the town. The records include agreements to construct conduits and details of the pipes to be laid during the mid-16th century

31 sheets bound in marbled boards containing drawings and sketches relating to several aspects of Gandys work both as an architect and as an antiquarian. There are drawings taken at Storrs in Windermere, Roslin, Melrose, Newcastle, Lancaster Church and Castle and Shrewsbury Market House.

An edition of grreat rarity, published in Moscow; only one other copy known in Western Europe.

This account book is one of only three extant for rural parishes in Wiltshire dating from the reign of Henry VIII and it is by far the most detailed. The English reformation in microcosom is vividly documented in these pages.