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Item date: 1777 - 1841
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 600
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

141 items. Mostly printed, though a few are in MS, with annotations giving names of vendors, purchasers and sale prices

Item date: 1873 - mid 20th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 400
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

Notebooks of detailed inventories for probate insurance and valuations for sale; sales books with the names of buyers and prices paid; the firms letters books, office diaries, sale particulars and sale posters

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 250,000
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk

440 boxes and volumes, as well as charters and deeds there are papers of notable Suffolk antiquaries, borough and manorial records, plans and surveys.

Item date: 1359
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 8,500
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire

Grants that foreign merchants need not pay tolls to enter Warwick with their goods

Item date: early 14th century
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 550,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

23 full page miniatures precede the text; made for a lady who is depicted in one of the miniatures.

Author: Violet Milner
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Mainly the papers of Violet, Lady Milner, editor of the National Review from 1932 to 1948, but also includes correspondence and papers of her first husband Lord Edward Cecil, her second husband Lord Milner and numerous Maxse and Cecil relations.

Author: Desideru s Erasmus
Item date: 1535
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 6250
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Cousin was Erasmus amanuensis in Freiburg. He sent Erasmus the observations he had made on the book in 1536, but Erasmus died before they could be incorporated into following editions

Author: William Jupp and William Newton (Architects)
Item date: 1765
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 2,600
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London

The London Tavern in Bishopsgate was a City building of considerable social significance, being let regularly for balls, banquets and public meetings. It was destroyed by fire in 1765 and rebuilt by architects William Jupp and William Newton.

Author: JE Jackson
Item date: 1879
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 625
Item cost: 2,500
Institution: Wiltshire Museum
Town/City: Devizes
County: Wiltshire

Interleaved with MS notes, paper cuttings, early photographs, engravings pen and pencil drawings, 5 large coats of arms and 24 watercolours, some of them by William Wheatley

Author: Christopher Goodman
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

The author was born and died in Chester. On the accession of Queen Mary he joined the exiles in Strasburg. This work argues in favour of Wyatts rebellion and was secretly circulated in England