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Family and estate papers concerning financial settlements, genealogy, appointments and honours. The letters staret in the 16th century and include one from Lord Burghley about religious disorders in Winchester in 1564.

Manuscript estate plan in ink and colours on vellum, the second oldest such plan in the H&W record office. Illustrated at p23 of AR

A satire on Sir Richard Steele and other Whig writers. John Lacy is a pseudonym, true authorship remains a mystery. The poem contains slighting remarks about the height of Alexander Pope and is therefore listed in Guerinots Pamphlet attacks on Alexander Pope - the fourth earliest such recorded.

In the Autumn of 1837 Pope discovered that James Watson had published an octavo edition of his Letters of Mr Pope and several of his Friends under the piratical imprint of Thomas Johnson at The Hague.

350 letters from John, mainly to his second wife Dorelia, many of them with rapid pen and ink sketches.

A collection of prayers takenfrom Scripture, arranged by the days of the week. Extremely popular, it went through 17 editions, from 1579, all of which are extremely scarce, a sure sign of a books popularity as the copies were read until they fell to pieces.

The single most important book on clocks, by the inventor of the pendulum clock.

Bills of loading, posters for Shipping Lines advertising routes between Liverpool and Glasgow; 35 forms for various dates in 1881 and 1882 of the Consulate of the United States listing goods and prices and documenting the shipping process from manufacturer to export

70 Privy Council letters to the Archbishops of Canterbury, many relating to a period when the registers of the Privy council are missing. Many letters to and from Burghley and Walsingham.

Extensive correspondence , both letters received and carbon copies of those sent, with translators, literary consultants, editors, publishing houses, academics, funding bodies, the Arts Council and others.