Grants awarded in 1969

Includes Paston rentals for the mid -17th century

One of three copies of this 32 page pamphlet known to survive. An attempt by Hume to justify and commend the Treatise in the face of misrepresentation and neglect

200 Letter Books from 1884 - 1930 containing copies of thousands of outgoing letters most of them by Herbert Thring, Secretary of the Society. Miscellaneous subject files dealing mostly with legal disputes and 1200 incoming letters from members of the Society.

Petty Officer Browning kept a diary during Captain Scotts second Antarctic expedition, recording every day events on board ship. He was part of the Northern party who passed the winter at Cape Adare. The diary ends before they had to pass another winter in an ice cave with very scanty food

One of the most remarkable survivng documents of Stephens reign, written in the solemn elaborate language more usual in charters from before the Conquest. Has an added list of witnesses including the King, his wife Matilda and his son Eustance. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add Charter 75727

Sir Thomas Phillipps's copy of Collections for Wiltshire. containing autograph corrections and genealogies.

84 volumes and 20 loose items. They relate almost entirely to the period of Malets service as first permanent Residence at Poona and includes official and private correspondence, drafts of letters, accounts and historical notes

The novels in their original parts in this collection were used by Hatton and Cleaver for their Bibliography.

Brownrigg was Quartermaster General and Military Secretary to the Duke of York, Commander in Chief. Almost 700 letters and documents. A useful collection of historical source records relating to the defence of England against invasion from France which was a threat throughout the Napoleonic period

Many books extensively annotated by Percy and several have interesting associations with other members of the literary Club connected with Dr Johnson, such as Goldsmith.

A substantial collection of manorial documents of 16th and 17th centuries, 2,000 medieval deeds, and a large quantity of family papers, including the delinquency papers of the Second Earl during Commonwealth times

Welsh manuscr ipt of 234 pages written on vellum containing a text of the Welsh Laws. Rubricated with one miniature and several decorative capital letters in red or blue. Illustrated as plate II of AR

Sulivan was for many years Director of the East India Company and these papers are of especial interest for the light thrown on the relations of the Nabob of Arcot with his Agents and on the pecuniary claims Sulivan had on him

A French blind-stamped binding with panels of St John the Evangelist and four Biblical figures in compartments; presented together with an elaborately gold-tooled binding by Arthur J Gray, c.1915 on WA Clouston: A Group of Eastern Romances (1889). Presented in memory of Albert Ehrman by Mrs Ehrman and John Ehrman

Prepared by prelates and ecclesiastical lawyers, probably for the Papal legate, Cardinal Campeggio. There is an opinion in favour of the Queen signed by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

James Hervey came under the influence of Wesley at Lincoln and was one of the first Oxford Methodists, though he came to disagree with Wesleys public preaching and evangelism. The se letters date from this later period of disagreement

Presented by FONL together with a Persian Manuscript, The Akbar-namah an epic poem compsed by Hamid Allah of Kashmir, 1844, recounting the muder of Sir William MacNaughten, British envoy in Kabul 1841 and the subsequent loss of the British army during the retreat to Jellalabad. Both poems are illustrated