Lambeth Palace Library acquired 17 volumes of the Talbot Papers in 1696, with this purchase from the College of Arms it was possible to reunite the other portion of the collection, some 15 volumes to make it once again one of the most important Tudor archives in existence
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 390,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1919
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
First, rare, signed issue (of two); contains poems by Sassoon, Hardy , Graves, Beerbohm and Pearsall Smith
Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 16,000
Institution: North Yorkshire Record Office
Town/City: Northallerton
County: North Yorkshire
The largest single group of medieval deeds for a consolidatd area of the county, extensive mining records and an unbroken series of estate records, plus important papers relating to public affairs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
An extremely rich and varied collection of over 800 deeds; no less than 72 rolls for the manor of Haveringland from 13th century onward. Also a group of East Dereham churchwardens account 1402-70, amongst the earliest known in Norfolk
Item date: 1860 - 77
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside
The senior partner of the company, GA Trenholm became Secretary to the Confederate States Treasury. The Liverpool branch of the firm then became banker to the southern States financing the supply of armaments in exchange for cotton.
Item date: 1925 - 1966
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 300
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside
The magazines form a popular encyclopaedia of engineering, industry and transport and cover an important field of social history
Item date: 1350 - 1400
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 11,250
Institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Compiled over a period of about 50 years by at least six scribes at St Mary's Abbey, York. The MS has three sections, a miscellanea including the Anglo-Norman poem Des Grauntz Geaunts; a Brut chronicle in French up to 1333 and the Anonimalle Chronicle.
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 5,900
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Deeds relating to Basing, Basingstoke, Nether Wallop and other places; also letter books and miscellaneous papers of Lord Bolton as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire from 1800 to 1807
Item date: medieval to 18th century
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
84 deeds relating to Lymington from the medieval period down to 16th century and amongst other items three bundles of deeds from Petersfield from 16th to 18th centuries
Item date: 1786
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 25,775
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Also included estate papers of the familys English holdings, papers relating to their estates in the West Indies were auctioned separately and the Record Office were unable to buy them at 106,000