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Subscription and signature are autograph, text throws light on negotiations for an alliance between England and France against Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Arthur Gimson donated 40 of the total purchase price. Add MS 48988, f 40

137 pages written in a beautiful charter hand in red, green and black ink, of immense importance for the economic and religious historian. Add MS 48978. Presented by Mr & Mrs A Ehrman. Illustrated as plate I of AR

Used to record details of each binding produced personally by Cobden Sanderson including buyers name and price obtained in the important period before the Doves Bindery was established. Mr & Mrs A Ehrman gave 50 10s and Arthur Gimson 25 towards the purchase

A Grant by Geoffrey atte Pyrye to John son of William Long of Winchelsea of rents in the parish of St Thomas. 3 fine and perfect seals one of which is the borough seal. Illustrated as plate V of AR

Laski was lecturer and later professor at LSE 1920 - 1950; he collected works on the history of political thought from pamphlets of the Civil war period to socialist periodicals of the 19th century including the rare Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Marx

This edition is No 26, second issue, but lacks portraitand with variant frontispiece. Presented by Miss JEH Austen

Fine examples of Arabic calligraphy, mainly prayers, enclosed in broad borders of burnished gold. Illustrated as plate IV of AR

Important collection of official correspondence addressed to officers of the town with particular emphasis on the Civil War period. Illustrated as plate V of AR

Samaratian literature collected by Dr Gaster from Nablus including fine MSS of The Pentateuch; 350 Hebrew MSS drawn from Yemen and Morocco as well as Europe and Genizah fragments of discarded texts and documents of much importance to scholarship. Illustrated as plates III and IV of AR

Vol 1 contains notes in the hand of Fulk Onslow, Clerk of the Commons, of speeches made and Acts of Parliament concerning Mary Queen of Scots, amongst others. Vol 2 shows the inner workings of the Parliament Office at moments of crisis such as the trial of the Earl of Strafford.