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Earliest map was drawn by Ambrose Cogger for Sir Robert Wildgoose in 1637, showing the estate iron works and attendant waterways.

3,000 manuscript title deeds, 450 dating from before 1600, court rolls, rentals surveys and plans of the estate. Also an important archive of letters from the Commonwealth period when the estate was owned by Colonel Philip Jones, a trusted friend of Oliver Cromwell.

14 deeds relating to property in the area of Newland in the Forest of Dean; they help to reveal the areas early development with much topographical information, personal names, occupations and relationships.

Drawn up at Fountaines death by Captain William Price, the catalogue constitutes a major source for our knowledge of Fountaines collection and its display at Narford.

50 letters to and from Wyatt, 26 written by the Duke containing specific instructions for work at Apsley House.

Over 800 letters from MacCaig (recipients not listed); they range widely over his life, work and his opinions of the work of other writers.

A stock book for 1858 - 69 and ledgers which record all items published by the company between 1844 and 1897. Also in-house annotated catalogues of Novellos own publications and details of agreements with other music publishers

George Lawson bequeathed his library to the living at East Harsley in 1725, where it remained until rescued from the vicarage attic in 1976 after the death of an incumbent and it was taken to York Minster Library.

This catalogue represents the basis of the Societys library, formed by Britton in 1853; he used this MS catalogue to persuade William Cunnington III to sell his collection of Wiltshire antiquities to the newly formed society

A coloured map, commissioned by Ralph Sheldon, founder of the tapestry works at Barcheston. The earliest known map of Brailes, highly finished and decorated with Sheldons coat of arms, it was obviously intended for display rather than use. Illustrated at p.35 of AR