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First produced about 1722, this is a set of vocal and orchestral parts, copied in part by James Lewis on 13th February 1758, whose annotations reveal them to have been used at the last recorded performance on 28th December 1786.

30 letters including ones from Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Thomas Roscoe, Reginald Heber and George Jardine as well as Wilsons professors at Glasgow and Oxford.

60 documents, mostly relating to local affairs in Gloucester with scathing verses composed by Counsel mostly about the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral

Papers relating to the successive Earls of Carnarvon from the first creation in 1793 until the time of the 4th Earl in the late 19th century.

Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, fell out of a window, 2 days after making his will in 1592. Robert Herrick, the poet, was a child of 14 months at the time of his fathers death. Two of the documents are inventories of household goods, his stock in trade and his trade debts.

30 sketch books and 24 portfolios of plans elevations and miscellaneous sketches in ink watercolour and pencil. Each facet of Newalls work is represented from middle class houses to farms, churches, schools, bridges, greenhouses and tombs.

Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library. The collection also included Peter Lombards Commentary on the Psalms, three Books of Hours and a Sarum liturgical Manual of about 1450. Illustrated at p.18 of AR

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

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.

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.