Contains deeds relating to 60 Devon parishes, approximately 500 items dating before 1500. There are 35 court rolls for Haccombe (where the Carew estate was based), the composition of the Church at Holne in 1329 and a document of nullification of a marriage in 1374
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
Item date: 1697-1701
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 165
Item cost: 660
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Parts of this diary were published by William Barnes the Dorset dialect poet
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 190
Item cost: 765
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
450 items; they show the origins, family histories and prevailing interests of a coherent group of middle class people in the Midlands
Item date: 1695 - 1928
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 165
Item cost: 670
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Includes court books and enclosure commissioners minutes. The Hemingford estate records consist of more than 2500 documents relating chiefly to the affairs of Captain Henry Sholto Douglas
Item date: 1916 - 1950s
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 3,000
Institution: Queen's University, Belfast
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim
Cummins wrote the first biography of Edith Somerville, based largely on 366 letters written to her by Somerville, now gathered into this collection together with Cummins own records of her visits to the Somerville household in Co. Cork.
Item date: 1796 - 1821
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 30,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
570 letters bound into 11 volumes by the Chester bookseller J Seacombe shortly after Mrs Piozzis death. The Williams family were neighbours of the Piozzis in Wales and amongst their closest friends.
Item date: 1601
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 7,320
Institution: Westminster City Library
Town/City: London
Queen Elizabeths original grant of Arms to the City of Westminster, followed the incorporation of the City as a seat of municipal government
Item date: 1941 - 1984
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London
A complete run of the magazine, an archive of MSS submitted for publication and corrected galley proofs. Letters and poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, letters and an article by Dylan Thomas and by Augustus John.
Item date: 1760 - 67
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 660
Item cost: 660
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Rare early Dublin edition with significant textual variants
Item date: 1793
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
New York edition. Wants the title page but includes interesting leaf of advertisements by Naphtali Judah of 47 Water Street for books and paper. Presented by Jeff Gordon of New York