Murrys attempt to reconicle Science and Religion, important, now, for his autobiographical passages
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1929
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 1250
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh
Item date: mid 18th century
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 60
Item cost: 242
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Almost certainly the work of William Godson and drawn up for the Sheldon family; drawn and hand coloured, 27 double page spreads including two maps
Item date: 13th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 70,000
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire
As well as a fine series of title deeds there are manorial records, bailiffs accounts from 1277 to 1425, court rolls 1481 - 1849 a custumal and surveys of the 16th and 17th centuries. Plans of the second and third Halls survive together with plans for gardens
Item date: 1649 -1717
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 1000
Institution: National Trust, Dyrham Park
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
Contains six views of rooms and staircases at Het Loo, where Blathwayt had a permanent apartment since he was Secretary at War and Acting Secretary of State to William III. The Dutch architecture influenced his rebuilding at Dyrham 1691 - 1701
Item date: 1739
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 900
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
The inscription in this book reveals that far from being deadly rivals, Douglas was on cordial terms with the Adams family
Item date: 1863 - 64
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Royal Engineers Museum
Town/City: Gillingham
County: Kent
18 page loose leaf manuscript, written hastily by Gordon with later annotations in red ink. A bald summary of his part in the campaign of supression of a rebellion against the Chinese Emperor, by a native force financed by the Shanghai merchants.
Item date: 1736
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 385
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Drawn by John Stonestreet with a particularly detailed depiction of farmhouses, barns and other buildings, distinguishing tile and thatch, the layout of farm yards, orchards and gardens
Item date: late 13th century - 1486
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 1,241
Institution: Buckinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Aylesbury
County: Buckinghamshire
A group of hitherto unrecorded charters for Great and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire. There are 13 charters bearing seals from before 1289 comprising successive conveyances of small piece of land belonging to John le Waleys
Item date: 1650s - 1660s
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 312
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
A group of letters from various Puritan divines offering spiritual consolation and guidance to the Cromwells in the immediate aftermath of the Restoration
Item date: 1597 - 1668
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 120
Item cost: 850
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Richard Daniel, of Alverton, Penzance ,was a merchant engaged in trade at Middleburg, Holland. The book is a unique record of trade between the two countries at this period