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Item date: 17th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 200,000
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire

Includes the architectural and garden plans of James Paine, Richard Woods and Capability Brown for the new castle and grounds of about 1770. The total purchase pric e is for the entire collection split between the Cornish and Wiltshire record offices

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 200,000
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

A series of manorial accounts remarkable for its continuity. There are a large number of papers relating to the priory of Tywardreath and its possessions, and plans and papers concerned with mining and the production of tin and copper in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Author: Samuel Cockerell and Lewis Wyatt
Item date: 1813 - 28
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,028
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

Samuel Cockerells design, commissioned in 1813 was never executed. When the house was inherited by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus in 1827 he turned to Lewis Wyatt for an entirely new house in the Jacobethan style.

Author: GW Wilson
Item date: 1860 - 1908
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire

Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series. Most areas of mainland Scotland and some of the Inner Hebrides are also represented

Author: James Craig
Item date: 1786
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1650
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings

Item date: 1805 - 1875
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 995
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk

Mostly of the period 1830 - 60

Item date: 1568
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 3,850
Institution: Northumberland Archives Service
Town/City: Morpeth
County: Northumberland

Survey made for Sir Thomas Grey (d.1589) when he was in his minority following the death of his father Sir Ralph Grey in 1568.

Item date: 1943 - 88
Date acquired: 1991
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 33,525
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex

Editorial correspondence and in-house files, augmenting the papers of Kingsley Martin which have been held at Sussex since 1969. Correspondence includes EM Forster writing about the Warsaw Ghetto, Stephen Spender on Burgess and Maclean and Harold Wilson on post-war Russia.

Item date: 1563 - 1640
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

254 volumes plus 12 printed or written after 1640. The importance of the collection is as an entity, a mirror of the intellectual life of Lord William and his circle. About half the collection are religious works, the most read book being a copy of Calvins Institutio Christianae Religionis.

Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction of Denis Fort on the Helford river and the documents include plans and sketches, lists of soldiers a