Grants awarded in 1982

The senior partner of the company, GA Trenholm became Secretary to the Confederate States Treasury.

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.

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.

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 i

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

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.

Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line.

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.

An extremely rich and varied collection of over 800 deeds; no less than 72 rolls for the manor of Haveringland from 13th century onward.

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 Londo

Compiled over a period of about 50 years by at least six scribes at St Mary's Abbey, York.

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

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 nam

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.