This archive forms an excellent record of the business of the oldest surviving firm of city solicitors. They appear to have been consistently at the very heart of commercial life of the city of London, with offices at 22 College Hill.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1720s - early 20th century
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 11,000
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1794 - 1803
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 242,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Reputedly coloured by Daniell himself. This is the first listed book in a collection of 319 books of topography and travel collected by Mason over 40 years.
Item date: 1783 - 1830
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 73,677
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
The diary together with a volume of autobiography gives a very detailed picture of the life thoughts and opinions of the great leader of the Evangelical wing of the Church of England and prime mover in the campaign for the abolition of slavery.
Item date: 14th & 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 195
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Includes grants of land in Barton Stacey to Mottisfont Priory, and others on the Isle of Wight including Freshwater
Item date: 18th & 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 9828
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Incoming letters to the Earl covering the whole period of his adult life. Also papers relating to the two regiments Sheffiled raised and his development of Newhaven as a port
Item date: 1725-1807
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 57
Item cost: 230
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
Several hundred letters addressed to Gifford by family and friends; also a manuscript journal of a journey from London to New York in 1793
Item date: 1894 - 1920
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 800
Institution: Coventry City Library
Town/City: Coventry
County: West Midlands
400 items, financial papers relating to the amalgamation in 1894 and the early development of this bicycle manufacturing firm, plus title deeds to the area of land where the factory was built
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,530
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
This group of deeds forms virtually all the known muniments of title of this small Augustinian House
Item date: 1630 - 38
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 45
Item cost: 180
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Remarkably detailed account, each charge for material being itemised with separate costs for making. The suits are described in great detail as are clothes for Mandeville's servants.
Item date: 1295
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 298
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Addressed to the Prior and Convent of Barnwell ordering them to account for a clerical subsidy for which they have been collectors.