Grants awarded in 1982

The senior partner of the company, GA Trenholm became Secretary to the Confederate States Treasury. The Liverpool branch of the firm then became banker to the southern States financing the supply of armaments in exchange for cotton.

Also included estate papers of the familys English holdings, papers relating to their estates in the West Indies were auctioned separately and the Record Office were unable to buy them at 106,000

Letters to and from members of this important Bristol Merchant family, engaged in the manufacture of porcelain.

Dunn was a surgeon in Derbyshire near the Nightingale family seat at Lea. The letters range widely over Nightingales interests but centre on the welfare of family members and villagers in the neighbourhood

First edition, published posthumously, engraved by H de Baussen

Presented under the will of Falconer Madan, the collection of pamphlets and books he formed in order to write a bibliography of the Sacheverell affair. There are numerous variant copies of each work and pirated reprints, re-issues, re-impressions and copies with in-press corrections

112 deeds referring to small holdings of an acre or less

A very diverse collection, contains 38 deeds relating to Lichfield 1307 - 1607 with important topographical information and six Leveson family deeds to complement the Leveson-Gower papers already in the Record Office

41 medieval deeds, bringing to 84 the number recovered of the 97 once known to have existed

Includes a roll of depostions taken in 1635 in which witnesses were asked 34 questions about the demolition of Grafton Manor House and the use of the materials in building Stoke Park House for Sir Francis Crane

Deeds relating to Basing, Basingstoke, Nether Wallop and other places; also letter books and miscellaneous papers of Lord Bolton as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire from 1800 to 1807

One of the projected series of 34 fascicles. The 743 copper plates engraved from drawings by Sydney Parkinson of the plants collected by Banks on his voyage round the world 1768 - 1771 with Captain Cook. The plates, which are housed at British Library had never before been printed in colour

Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line. Also 146 monochrome drawings within the text showing the ship on successive days of the voyage, showing how it adapted to changing sailing conditions from calm to a gale

Only known copy of the plan for the whole of the Essay on Man. One of the 1400 volumes in the collection of Harold Forster of minor verse of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection is particularly strong on anonymous satire, though there are also sentimental, didactic and legendary tales. Miscellanies are represented by Griffiths no.

An extremely rich and varied collection of over 800 deeds; no less than 72 rolls for the manor of Haveringland from 13th century onward. Also a group of East Dereham churchwardens account 1402-70, amongst the earliest known in Norfolk

84 deeds relating to Lymington from the medieval period down to 16th century and amongst other items three bundles of deeds from Petersfield from 16th to 18th centuries

Presented by Dr de Beer with his collection of over 100 early travel books and guides from France Germany Italy and the Low Countries, as well as English works such as Jeffreys A Journal from London to Rome 1742.

Compiled over a period of about 50 years by at least six scribes at St Mary's Abbey, York. The MS has three sections, a miscellanea including the Anglo-Norman poem Des Grauntz Geaunts; a Brut chronicle in French up to 1333 and the Anonimalle Chronicle. This last contains the best account known of the Peasants' Revolt in London.

Deeds and poll tax assessments with 58 letters b etween family members 1658 - 1665

The largest single group of medieval deeds for a consolidatd area of the county, extensive mining records and an unbroken series of estate records, plus important papers relating to public affairs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

The magazines form a popular encyclopaedia of engineering, industry and transport and cover an important field of social history

11 pattern-shop order books in unbroken sequence 1840 to 1926, containing detailed descriptions of a wide variety of machinery tools and domestic appliances manufactured by the company with the names of their customers

A collection of 152 charters, many relating to Tattingstone and Bentley

34 coloured penand ink plans of estates mainly in the parishes of St Enoder, Ladock and St Erme with schedules of field names and acreages

Cobbold was rector of Wortham in Suffolk and spent years writing up a perceptive account of the lives characters and habitations of his parishoners, 100 of whom are depicted in these two volumes. Illustrated in AR