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
Search FNL grants since 1931
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
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: 1789
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 720
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Catalogue made by the executors of Sir Robert Bernard of the books left on his death in 1789. The Thorp Park library consists mainly of 17th century Law books, those at Brampton Hall more modern with a first edition of Smiths The Wealth of Nations, 1796 amongst them
Item date: 1698 - 1753
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 180
Item cost: 360
Institution: Bristol Record Office
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
Two account books, one for 1698 - 1704, from the beginning of the working life of the Bristol Merchant John Day, and the other from 1729 - 1753 records James Days work as executor of the estate of Peter Day.
Item date: 1534
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 149,750
Institution: Science Museum
Town/City: London
The first book on farming published in England; part of a collection of 600 printed books and pamphlets on the history of animal husbandry and vetinary science.
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
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: 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.