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Displaying 951 - 960 of 1976
Item date: 1720 - 1733
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 200
Institution: Religious Society of Friends
Town/City: London

Most of these tracts were generated by the polemical exchange resulting from the publication of Smallbrokes Vindications of the Miracles of our blessed Saviour, 1731

Item date: 1547 - 48
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London

Includes the files for the counties of Oxfordshire to Yorkshire, in between are writs for Berks, Bucks, Beds, Northants, Rutland, Salop, Warwicks, Leics, Notts, Derbys, Lincoln and the City of York, each addressed to the appropriate Sheriff who was responsible for returning it at the required dat

Item date: 1736
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 385
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

Drawn by John Stonestreet with a particularly detailed depiction of farmhouses, barns and other buildings, distinguishing tile and thatch, the layout of farm yards, orchards and gardens

Item date: 1749 - 1906
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire

Title deeds relating chiefly to land in Belgrave but also land at Barrow on Trent in Derbyshire

Author: William, Mary and Dorothy Wordsworth
Item date: 1809
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,115
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

Replies to letters from de Quincey already at Dove Cottage. The letters discuss a variety of subjects, including the printing of The Convention of Cintra, de Quinceys intended move to Grasmere, Coleridges The Friend, and family matters

Author: Thomas de Quincey
Item date: 1822
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 475
Item cost: 475
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

First edition, a fine copy in Taylor and Hesseys trade binding

Author: JW Penfold
Item date: 1845
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 675
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

Contains a dedicatory poem by Wordsworth. The Duchess of Manchester was the principal subscriber: the list is only 66 names long

Item date: 1299 - 1300
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 900
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Accounts of John Randolph listing income and expenditure in the six forest bailiwicks together with similar accounts for the manors of Lyndhurst, Burghtone, Minnestoke and Ringwood

Item date: 15th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

The Kingsmill familys considerable estates in several counties were all administered from Sydmonton Court and this collection of estate accounts, rentals, surveys, terriers, valuations and settlements gives a very full record of their affairs over several centuries.

Item date: 14th - 16th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 7,500
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent

175 documents, mostly late-medieval title deeds for parishes all over Kent. Also includes 14 plea rolls for Dover Castle c.1337 - 1400