Grants awarded in 1980

254 issues running in date mainly from 1642 to 1649 and from July to November 1658.

Written in Brussels, Cavell expresses pleasure at the appointment of a female director for the lay nurses at Sanos hospital, describes progress at her own hospital at St Gilles, and mentions the sh

Maps of the estate of Edward Williams of Plas Newydd, finely executed with decorative cartouches and interesting picture of Plas Newydd (Nerquis Hall)

Fine copy of the first French Protestant Bible in its original binding and with the title page and preliminary leaves often removed to delude officialdom and prevent confiscation

Plotted on vellum, hand coloured

Cope was MP for Oxfordshire and for Banbury, and he also owned the Bramshill estate in Hampshire which became the family seat after his death.

Detailed accounts of the sale and despatch of skins and parcels of gloves mainly to retailers in London shops

The diary is the earliest and fullest of Briggs writings on Natural History

Play is based loosely on the first part of Richard Johnsons short Arthurian novel Tom a Lincoln (1599) but with an added clown figure Rusticano.

Published in the London Magazine November 1875, but never reprinted. Presented by Christopher Dobson, grandson of the poet

Authorizes the purchase of pasturage land outside the city by the Burgesses

229 folios with index. Most entries refer to the Wootton Basset and Swindon areas.

Seventh edition. Presented with six other books by John Fuggles

Gives new insight into the way White worked up personal letters into a form suitable for publication