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St John was Secretary of State at this time, and he was writing to Charles Boyle who was Envoy Extraordinary in Flanders. The letters cover the period April 1712 to October 1713 and are chiefly concerned with the negotiations which led to the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht

The Sheldon family fortune was made in tapestry weaving. This account book records two years of travel and household expenses, losses at cards (20 in an evening) purchases of hawks, velvet collars for greyhounds and 10 paid for a suit of armour edged with gold lace. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

The earliest known map of the area which is now the town of Worthing

The surveys provide evidence for a vanished landscape, showing estates, buildings and fields which no longer survive and providing evidence for agricultural practises which have long disappeared.

An elevation, basement and ground floor plans for a projected new house for George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton. They show the layout of the working part of the house with laundry and stable courts. The plans were not used

As well as the usual deeds , wills, marriage settlements and copyhold papers there are more than 30 fine 18th and 19th century maps of Norfolk parishes and estates

Larkin and Sutton met at school and remained close friends for years. This series of letters form the single most important body of evidence for Larkins formative years.

The first publication of Larkins own distinctive poetic voice after the juvenilia and The North Ship. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies. Donation from the Philip Larkin Memorial Fund.

An apparently unrecorded work, still in sheets, as delivered by the printer. A long duodecimo, the sheets would have simply been folded, unlike other kinds of the same format which require cutting first.

Maghen was a friend of Erasmus and produced manuscripts for the London market, in particular the small group of London humanists which included John Colet and Christopher Urswick