Grants awarded in 1977

Deeds from Wendron Parish and other properties in Cornwall. Also includes a letter from the Cornish antiquary William Borlase to R Gough (1768)

Deeds relating to the manor of Pollyng, Odiham, the property of the Esturmy family.

The second book to be printed at Oxford.

Letter about the church at Hastings estate at Daylesford, which he was in the process of rebuilding

One of the rarest of the books in the Broxbourne Gift of John Ehrman, which consisted of nine incunabula, one early 16th-century German book and 14 16th-century English books.

Printed at Venice by Bernardinus Benalius; first edition, no other copy known in a British library. FONL grant given in memory of Christopher A Webb

Comprises accounts for the repair and building work carried out by the Earl of Warwick who was Naval commander for Parliament throughout the Civil War.

The late 13th century charter is a grant of land in Little Oxendon (a deserted medieval village).

Grant of lands by John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lyhert Bishop of Norwich and others to the Great Hospital Norwich

Written during a journey from Midnapore in Bengal to Simla while Trower was on sick leave. Illustrated with pen and ink and water colour sketches

Shows William Montacute, first Earl of Salisbury in full armour with crested helm and with his arms displayed on his surcoat and on accompanying shields and lance-pennons

Includes memorandum book of Edmund Morton Pleydell, a memorandum book of tithes for Milbourne 1807 - 13, correspondence with George IV and some two hundred letters between members of the family at

270 items, mostly from the first half of the 17th century, relating to the activities of Thomas Smyth landowner and Royalist MP for Bridgwater in the period leading up to the Civil War.

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, a perfect copy with a hand coloured full page woodcut on the verso of the title page of the royal arms. Only three copies known. Presented by John Ehrman.

50 photographic views of Lucknow and environs with accompanying descriptions. Presented by the Hon. Mrs Desmond Cooke