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Literary MSS, notebooks, correspondence with family and friends, contracts, tributes and other miscellaneous material, including the correspondence of his second wife Valda Trevlyn.

Williams was Solicitor General 1687 -88 and the papers in this collection refer to the great state trials held in the 1670s and 80s: the Rye House Conspiracy, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Algernon Sidney and the Seven Bishops.

The only collection of Herrick letters known, they date from the period of his study at St Johns Cambridge; most of the letters to his guardian contain ingeniously phrased requests for money

Musical examples all printed from woodblocks. Bought with John Dowlands Second booke of songs or ayres of 2,4 and 5 parts, with tablature for the lute or orpherian with the violl de gamba, 1600.

This is a handy ready reckoner for converting regnal years, used for dating most legal documents, to those of the Christain calendar. Only one other copy known of this edition, at Trinity Cambridge

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, the first edition of the Missal to be printed in England. Bought with 23 other volumes: 5 Books of Hours, 3 Primers, 2 Breviaries, 2 Manuals, a Processional, a Portiforium, a Hymnal, 2Psalters, and 5 Missals

679 drawings in three albums, mostly of British subjects but some from his only trip to Italy in 1847, these are detailed sketches of the medieval buildings from which Pugin drew his own inspiration. Illustrated at p. 18 of AR

Includes maps by Josiah Ballard and William Deadman, which are both attractive and distinctive with much fine detail

Second edition of the Latin text, printed at Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Has extensive marginalia in a fine humanist hand , chiefly place names

The section from 1557 to 1575 appears to have been written from contemporary knowledge. The author may have lived in Edinburgh and been a minor official at Court