29 grants for 2010.
A portfolio of 24 drawings, fourteen of Rufford Abbey, five of Ollerton Hall, three of a proposed church at Ollerton, one possibly of Osberton Hall and one unidentified. They were probably commissioned by Sir George Savile, 8th Bt. (1726-1784), the owner of Rufford Abbey and Ollerton Hall.
The substantial records of a prominent Devon landed family. The Coffin family is said to have acquired the manor of Alwington soon after the Conquest, but the written record begins with a grant of free warren there to Richard Coffin in 1254.
Twenty-five letters from Disraeli to his loyal supporter Sir Henry Stracey, MP (1802-85), containing comments on current affairs, and exhibiting his consummate skills as a politician, party manager and judicious flatterer.
Details: The library collections at Belton, Lincolnshire, are among the finest in any National Trust house. The Library and Study, each containing about 6,000 books, give an almost complete picture of book collecting over 350 years.
This fine charter is a confirmation of a grant of nine bovates of land in Eakring, Nottinghamshire by Matthew, Abbott of Rufford, to Osbert de Capella and Emma his wife. A seal of Osbert depicting his device (a wheel?) is attached to the charter.
The deed of exchange and its accompanying maps document the consolidation of the estates respectively of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. (1770-1844) of Foremark, the reformist politician, and Sir George Crewe (formerly Harpur), 8th Baronet (1795-1844) of Calke.
The earliest deed in the collection is almost a century earlier than its auction description had indicated: a grant by Reynold Roylly of Hullavington to Miles de Scyston and wife Sara, of Eastbery Grange, 1315. A few of the deeds relate to property in Gloucestershire and Somerset.…
1. A rental of the Corfe Mullen estate of Sir John Coventry, 1859-1863. The Coventry family lived at Knowle House, near Wimborne, Dorset and this record of the estate rentals is a new source of information on the management of the property.
This is a third tranche, added to Cheshire Archives' existing holdings of records of this important family, comprising court rolls of the Manor of Rixton with Glazebrook, 1717-1835, title deeds, a fine series of more than 300 leases from the 1620s onwards, estate accounts and vouchers, rentals and valuations, as well two 18th century maps.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), poet and courtier, was one of the most influential literary figures of the Elizabethan age. The pedigree, which was probably commissioned from Robert Cooke by his father, Sir Henry Sidney, is on a long (c.300 cm) vellum roll of five joined sheets.
This is the only leaf known to survive from an otherwise lost 9th-century copy of Bede's Homilies on the Gospels.
Charles Grey was a London associate of a firm of Alnwick attorneys named Adams; the firm's papers were the subject of the above sale. His letter to an unnamed correspondent gives a rare and remarkable account of bodysnatching activity in Tottenham.
This little-known collection of nine autograph letters of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) reveals much about the artist’s professional practice and personal friendships.
A printed map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea in two sections, evidently produced in connection with a disputed proposal to erect a ballast shore at Jarrow Slake. No other copy of the 1675 section appears to be known.
A volume of over 400 pages, containing detailed maps of each farm on the estate (which extended to 4000 acres in half a dozen parishes, including those elements in Yorkshire and Ireland), cut from a book of over thirty surveys made by Edward Wakefield in 1814.
Peter Crosthwaite had a varied and extraordinary career as a navigator, excise agent, inventor, social reformer and entertainer. He was born in Keswick, joined the East India Company and worked his way from cabin crew to First Navigation Officer. On leaving the East India Company he worked for the excise office based at Blyth, Northumberland.
Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire, the ancestral home of the Massingberd family, housed an interesting library, of which, remarkably, many hundreds still survive in situ. The books are not grand, but collectively, as a social document, they are of great interest, representing the taste of a middling family of sometimes impoverished country gentry.
A volume containing seven very rare catalogues for art sales which took place in the Low Countries between 1767 and 1777, as well as extracts in manuscript for three further sales.
Bruce Castle Museum is a 16th century manor house in Tottenham, formerly known as Lordship House, which now houses the museum and archives for the London Borough of Haringey. The building has had various owners and a fascinating history over the past 500 years.
Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889 - 1968) was one of the leading provincial architects of his day. From 1919 to 1928 he was principally engaged in the design of Nottingham's housing schemes, gaining for the City a high reputation for the quality, quantity and cost effectiveness of its municipal housing.
Approximately 200 poetry manuscripts of varying dates and formats, written in Blunden's calligraphic hand on the versos of college announcements, together with exam papers, auction catalogues, posters, 19th century ledgers, received correspondence and compliments slips, etc.
John Blakemore, Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Derby, is a world-renowned artist/photographer whose work encompassing a wealth of aspects from landscape and portraits to superb printmaking. He is perhaps most known for his outstandingly beautiful still-life studies, portrayed in major retrospective exhibitions and books.
Mervyn Peake was one of those rare individuals who achieved eminence as both artist and writer.…
Sir Alan Ayckbourn is an outstanding figure in post-1945 British and world theatre. He has written seventy-four full-length plays, and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and he is renowned as a gifted director of his own work and that of others.
The 4,000 boxes containing the Broadlands Archives, dating from the 16-20th centuries, are one of the UK’s most important family and estate collections.
The archive of the Enys family of St Gluvias, Penryn, on deposit at Cornwall Record Office for over 40 years, comprises 80 boxes of papers and c.
The substantial personal and estate archive of a prominent and well-connected family owning nearly 12,000 acres in Norfolk.
The Rice Archive is a comprehensive record of one of Kent’s substantial farming families, extending from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It comprises extensive family correspondence, photographs, title deeds, estate papers, including papers relating to the Kent coalfields, marriage settlements and other legal papers.
These two unpublished letters give fresh insights into different stages of Wordsworth’s life.