Grants awarded in 1958

Keene was Ambassador to Spain. Add MS 49621

Presented by TS Blakeney together with two volume s of Indentures for the delivery from the Exchequer, where they had been sized and sealed, of new standard weights and measures used by clerks of the markets in various towns 1670 - 1800

Only Chartulary of the Abbey known to exist, the roll is over 20 ft in length and includes a catalogue of the library mentioning two books in English. Add MS 49996

Includes lists of the rebels condemned before Sir George Bowes after the Northern Rebellion 1569 with some notes in the hand of Sir Cuthbert Sharp

First German adaptation of the Collationes patrum, the first book printed by Bmler. Presented by CA Webb together with Spiegel des Snders, 1480. A confessional manual printed at Augsburg

Bought with 7 other manuscripts; 66 full page miniatures, style deriving from Van Eyck and his successors. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add MSS 49999 - 50005

Consists mainly of copies of royal warrants and letters of instruction from the Privy Council when Carey was Treasurer at War in Ireland. Sheds light on the period of the Tyrone rebellion. Add MS 49609

Presented by the British Records Association. A varied collection of family correspondence but with a portion related to the defence of the coasts of England and Ireland at a time when Townshend was Master-General of the Ordnance. Add MSS 50006 - 50012

The gift of a group of Conan Doyle enthusiastis in America together with the Sherlock Holmes Society of London to mark the centenary of CD's birth in 1959. Illustrated as plate I of AR. Add MS 50065

Written on vellum, the greater part of Europe is shown, including the British Isles and North Africa; fully illuminated and decorated with flags, coats of arms, pictures of towns and cities and the King of Spain on his throne. Illustrated as plate II of AR

With fine seal, preserved on velvet in a morocco case

Heckles work was not previously represented in the Library