Extra-illustrated with original watercolours, portraits, engravings and coats of arms all by Moses Griffiths who was employed by Pennant to illustrate his works
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1796
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire
Item date: 1851 - 63
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 3,200
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
More than 200 letters, mostly addressed to Sir William Heathcote, patron of the living of Hursley, where Keble was Vicar from 1836. The letters are mostly concerned with local matters though Kebles interest in national religious and educational questions is also visible
Item date: 14th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 90,750
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
This considerable archive provides evidence of the contribution made by one of Kents leading families to the economic life of the county over several centuries. Further, the paper s of the Marquesses Camden are an important source for the politcal history of the 18th and 19th centuries
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 450
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside
Parker was Captain of the Pleasure yachts Jason I and Jason II owned by the Bibby family of Liverpool, then master of the yacht Iolanda owned by Moses Taylor of New York and of Sir Robert Houstons Liberty
Item date: 16th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 49,500
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
As well as 63 manorial court rolls and 232 manorial records there are 50 tin boxes of bills, correspondence and papers, many of them for household expenses in the late 18th century, including letters about the library at Althorp
Item date: 1650 - 52
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 500
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Two maps drawn by Anthony Everenden, they depict buildings and give field names and acreages in a bold italic hand
Item date: 1783 - 1830
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 73,677
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
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: 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: 1720s - early 20th century
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 800
Item cost: 11,000
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London
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.
Item date: 1937 - 38
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 580
Institution: Royal Geographical Society
Town/City: London
A series of letters giving an account of an expedition to Hadharamaut (modern Yemen) with Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Freya Stark, together with photographs of excavations at Bethlehem and some press cuttings