Grants awarded in 1978

Presented by Mrs Marian Webb from the library of the late Christopher Webb. Also included in the gift were a Greek New Testament of 1550 (the editio Regia) and MF Quintilianus Institutiones Oratoriae, 1480

Amongst the collection are 31 letters dating from 1810 -12 between Mary and William Wordsworth, an early copy of the poem addressed to Sara Hutchinson by Coleridge published as Dejection: an Ode in the hand of MW and letters from Dorothy concerning the illness and death of the Wordsworths daughter Catherine.

Printed by William Caxton 24 March 1479. A religious treatise on the mutability of the world and the certainty of death. One of only three perfect copies known

Records proceedings of courts for manors formerly in the possession of Evesham Abbey, but distrained at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Approximately 2000 items, no less than 1188 being earlier than 1500

The Yearly Meeting Advices of the Suffolk Society 1772-1858; a volume of minutes of meetings of the Suffolk Quarterly Meeting 1862-81 and a volume of minutes of ministers and elders of Woodbridge Monthly Meeting 1835 - 85.

Warwick Castle was granted to Fulke Greville in 1604; there are many court rolls of the manor and borough of Warwick; in 1642 the management of the familys considerable estates nationwide were amalgamated into a great series of account books that were continued in almost unbroken sequence into the 20th century

Over 2000 items relating mainly to the Wyche family and their Norfolk estates; includes numerous bills for the services of tradesmen such as tailors, peruke makers and school masters

In a magnificent jewelled binding from Trier (illustrated as frontispiece to AR) Presented by John Ehrman in memory of his father Albert Ehrman, creator of the Broxbourne Library, together with some 2,000 other examples of fine bindings one hundred manuscripts and approximately one hundred incunabula.

A counter roll or check list kept by the Controller of the Wardrobe to monitor accounts of the Keeper. Lists expenses of the Royal Household of Edward I and Queen Eleanor. Purchased in memory of TS Blakeney, including 100 bequeathed by him and 100 donated by his friends

Presented by John Ehrman, this is one of some 557 items which formed the Broxbourne collection of type specimens and books of typographical interest. The type specimens were listed in The Book Collector for 1956.

A collection of some 500 volumes from the library of the liturgical scholar BJ Wigan