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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

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.

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

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.

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

Both men farmed at Jaggards in the parish of Corsham. Meticulous farming and housekeeping accounts with details of all building work carried out on the estate, plus some personal and family memoranda

Drawn up by the Town Surveyor, these plans were rejected, perhaps because of the catholicty of the design - there are gothic, byzantine, italianate and regency features

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

Gunner was a childhood friend who made contact again late in life. The letters reveal much of Larkins political opinions. The collection also includes 31 letters and 22 carbon copies of letters from Gunner to Larkin. 250 of the grant was paid out of the Philip Larkin fund