As well as the usual deeds , wills, marriage settlements and copyhold papers there are more than 30 fine 18th and 19th century maps of Norfolk parishes and estates
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 15th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 8,525
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Item date: 1938 - 52
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
Larkin and Sutton met at school and remained close friends for years. This series of letters form the single most important body of evidence for Larkins formative years.
Item date: 1951
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
The first publication of Larkins own distinctive poetic voice after the juvenilia and The North Ship. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies. Donation from the Philip Larkin Memorial Fund.
Item date: 1691
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 250
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
An apparently unrecorded work, still in sheets, as delivered by the printer. A long duodecimo, the sheets would have simply been folded, unlike other kinds of the same format which require cutting first.
Item date: 1516
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 18,450
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Maghen was a friend of Erasmus and produced manuscripts for the London market, in particular the small group of London humanists which included John Colet and Christopher Urswick
Item date: 1854
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 13,226
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
76 page notebook, diary entries from 5th September to 12 October 1854 with sketches and diagrams showing troop positions and orders of march. A detailed account of the early stages of the Crimean War, especially the Battle of the Alma.
Item date: 1863 - 64
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Royal Engineers Museum
Town/City: Gillingham
County: Kent
18 page loose leaf manuscript, written hastily by Gordon with later annotations in red ink. A bald summary of his part in the campaign of supression of a rebellion against the Chinese Emperor, by a native force financed by the Shanghai merchants.
Item date: 1739
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 900
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
The inscription in this book reveals that far from being deadly rivals, Douglas was on cordial terms with the Adams family
Item date: 1649 -1717
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 1000
Institution: National Trust, Dyrham Park
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
Contains six views of rooms and staircases at Het Loo, where Blathwayt had a permanent apartment since he was Secretary at War and Acting Secretary of State to William III. The Dutch architecture influenced his rebuilding at Dyrham 1691 - 1701
Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 70,000
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire
As well as a fine series of title deeds there are manorial records, bailiffs accounts from 1277 to 1425, court rolls 1481 - 1849 a custumal and surveys of the 16th and 17th centuries. Plans of the second and third Halls survive together with plans for gardens