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A Bull granted by Pope Leo X permitting the marriage of Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert and Margaret Courtenay, overriding the prohibition based on their consanguinity.

This letter was bought together with an account of the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots and a letter to Elizabeth I from the Earl of Kent, who had been heavily involved in Mary's prosecution, labouring under the Queens displeasure as she sought to wash her hands of responsibility.

Two limited edition works from the Red Hen Press in which Joness poetry is combined with mezzotint and relief etching in an artistic synthesis

CR Cockerell designed the Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Insitution in Oxford, the Hanover Chapel in London and the National Monument in Edinburgh. His correspondents included John Nash, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Robert Smirke, James Elmes, John Gibson and John Henning.

Collection of 800 drawings, one of the most comprehensive surviving sets of designs for any 19th century house. The evolution of the estate can be seen from initial notebook sketches to the highly detailed working drawings as Barry worked on his design for the Duke of Sutherland.

A major collection of drawings of antiquities by the Wiltshire historian Colt Hoare. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

Manuscript estate account books and deeds for the late 17th century, together with a diary for 1715 - 22. There are also letters from John Willes, to his father the bishop of Bath and Wells describing naval engagements with the French fleet off Cape Finistre and in India 1747 - 49

Court rolls, rentals, deeds, plans sales particulars and other material. The archive reflects the entire history of the Talbot familys connection with Worcestershire, throughout a period in which they were one of the countys major landlords

Extremely rare, with the leaf of preface in which Wordsworth stated that Coleridge had written Christabel for the volume. This copy has both cancel and uncancelled leaf; a genuine mistake on the part of the binder rather than a conscious preservation, as the cancel has been misbound

With MS addenda by William and Mary Wordsworth, who also wrote the introduction to the book, later published separately. In the 1810 text Wordsworth first makes the case for a National Park to be developed to help preserve the Lake District in its state of natural purity and simplicity.