49 working drawings for the austere neoclassical mansion designed by Wyatt for Sir Thomas Frankland, which was demolished in 1927. Many of the drawings bear instructions to workmen about the domestic fittings such as flues, water closets, drainage, window shutters and library furniture.
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The ledgers are day books with invoices transcribed in chronological order, each describing individually the pictures worked on.
Written by the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. Acquired at the Goyder sale withJohn Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The true copies of the letters betwene ... Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D.
These newsbooks were in effect the earliest English newspapers. This collection is of extreme value to historians since it contains Rushworths manuscript annotations commenting on the accuracy, or lack of it, in his contemporaries versions of events
Contains notes on Jean Cavalier, leader of the Protestant Camisards of the Cvennes in their revolt against Louis XIV after the revocatin of the Edict of Nantes. RLS had intended to write a novel on this subject but the ideas in this notebook were never fully developed.
An album or scrap book compiled by a bear-leader - a man who conducted young gentlemen on the Grand Tour of Europe. It is a serious record of his scholarly, artisitc and topographic interests and witness to his wide circle of antiquarian contacts
A most important, and very engaging collection of letters from Englands leading statesman and general during the War of the Spanish Succession to the Dutch head of state. This acquisition complemented the Blenheim papers, already in BL which contains some of Heinsiuss replies to Marlborough
For the most part this archive comprises letters from John Holles third Duke of Newcastle and Thomas Pelham Holles, 4th Duke, to Sir Francis Molyneux.
One of the most comprehensive family estate archives.
Depicts the manor of Anstey in northern Hertfordshire belonging to William Robinson Lytton. It records field names and shows buildings in primitive perspective. Thomas Browne went on to become Garter King of Arms in 1774