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Instruction to the keeper of the gaol at Chelmsford in the county of Essex to receive and detain Henry Doubleday in custody for the illegal taking and detaining of one Evan Jones.

Letter, posters and election addresses for Norwood during the 1970 general election.

Volume intitled 'Survey. Breconshire estates. 1820', being a survey of the Breconshire and Herefordshire estates of Sir Charles Morgan, presented to him by Thomas Bold, agent, March 1821. The estates are divided into the Tredegar estate (4,555a), Dderw estate (1,572a.), Palleg estate (2,164a.) and Herefordshire estate (487a.), and include interests in canals and other utilities.

Includes two group portraits taken outside a country house by Peters, Photographer of Oswestry; carte de visite of Robertson, consul in China (possibly Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson, consul in Canton, 1864); an un-named steam locomotive made at the Atlas Works, Manchester in 1861 (possibly no 1297); a panorama taken at Garthmyl, Otago, New Zealand.

An account book of David Jameson, maltster, of Bailey Street, Oswestry, 1800-1825, to which have been added a single entry for 1844 and accounts of goods (tea, coffee, sugar, etc.) received in 1871. The volume was subsequently used as an album for cuttings from Bye-Gones.

An account book bearing the name of John Evans, grocer, Oswestry, 2 May [18]50. All the accounts, however, have been cut away, leaving only a few memoranda.

Notes for an essay or address on 'Anfarwoldeb yr enaid' by Edward Roberts, ' ty Capel, Great [?Mersey] Street, Liverpool'.

A bound illuminated address ('Souvenir') presented to the Reverend H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'), Congregational minister, on his removal from Hull, May 1891.

A composite volume of the period c. 1764-1765 containing transcripts and drafts of reports on education in England, Wales, and Ireland, and of other papers on education, collected by a Russian commissioner with a view to establishing an educational system in Russia. The titles of the reports include 'Des Ecoles dans le Roiaume d'Irlande connues sous le Nom de Charter-Schools', 'Etat des Ecoles de Charité de la Grande Brétagne et de l'Irlande, l'année dernière, 1764', 'Ecoles ambulantes de Charite, dans la Principauté de Galles, en Angleterre', 'Etudes de l'École des Humanités', ‘'Reflexions sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs, établies à St. Petersbourg & à Moscou', 'Utilités de l'Étude de la Langue Latine & de la Grecque, pour l'avancement des Connoissances', 'Supplement à la pétite Dissertation sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs . . .', 'Doutes & Rémarques détachées, sur le Mémoire de Mr. le Conseiller Müller', 'Touchant le Protecteur général des Grandes Écoles & les Conseillers', 'Doutes touchant le Projet pour avoir 4 différentes sortes de Grandes Ecoles', 'Memoire Touchant les Grandes Ecoles d'Humanités en Angleterre, presenté au Mois de Novembre, 1764', 'Idée superficielle des deux Universites de l'Angleterre', 'Méthode d'enseigner les Humanités', 'Refléxions générales sur les principales Branches des Connoissances sur- tout en ce qui regarde La Prémière Education, & les Genres d'Études qui y conviennent', 'Projet de deux Grandes Ecoles, ou Séminaires Séculiers, l'un à St. Petersbourg, & l'autre à Moscou', etc.

Material relating to Shropshire castles and fortifications collected by Edward Edwards, bookseller, Shrewsbury, with many engravings, plans, etc.

Miscellaneous printed, typescript, and manuscript material, August - September 1939, relating to plans for the reception of evacuees from Liverpool at Aberystwyth.

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, A-K (vol. I), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coat-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, L-Z (vol. II), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coats-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

Typescript transcripts and lists, 1943, compiled by David E. Gardner, comprising transcripts (for 1725-1812) and extracts (1813-1929) of marriages recorded in the parish registers of St Brides, Pembrokeshire (ff. 8-12); transcripts of marriages (1754-1837) recorded in the parish registers of Loughor, Glamorgan (ff. 13-33); and a list of non-parochial registers relating to Cheshire held at the General Registry Office, Somerset House (ff. 1-7).

A manuscript containing a copy made by J. T. Evans, rector, of the register of baptisms, 1680-1707, for the parish of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

A minute-book, 1869-1878, of the Montgomeryshire and Salop Presbytery (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church), with statistics for the years 1870-1871, 1873-1876.

A Book of Hours of the use of Sarum, [c. 1380x1400], in original binding but wanting many leaves. Contains: Kalendar (ff. 5-9 verso), Hours of BVM (ff. 10-39 verso), Penitential Psalms, Gradual Psalms and Litany (ff. 40-54 verso), Office of the Dead (ff. 55-78 verso) and Commendation of Souls (ff. 80-7 verso), with added prayers on f. 79, contemporary, and ff. 87 verso-9, after 1457. Illuminated initials, mostly 3-line, and borders, the dominant colours gold, blue and maroon, the initials on f. 25 (St Catherine) and f. 46 (face of Christ) historiated. From the workshop, probably in London, which produced, among other manuscripts, the Balknap Hours (J. R. Abbey Sale, Sotheby's 1 Dec. 1970, lot 2869) and Bodley MS 581 (after 1391). The Kalendar includes, in the original hand, Chad and Edward, the litany (all that survives, the Virgins) Ethelreda, Mildreda, Radegunde and Osyth. A hand of second half 15 cent. (which adds Osmund, canonized 1457) added to the Kalendar, in red, the feast and translation of Cuthbert and the invention of Oswin (relics at Tynemouth), besides other synodal Sarum feasts in black.