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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.

Collection of over 400 letters. 260 letters are from Robert, first Earl of Lytton to Kent, author and journalist, who helped Robert publish the life of his father Edward Bulwer Lytton. Kent was a family friend and also correspondend with Roberts wife Edith and their son Edward.

Four persecution tracts bound in one volume.

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.