Over 400 pre-Dissolution charters and deeds, including the foundation charter granted by Thurstan Archbishop of York in 1132. Collection follows the changing fortunes and ownership of the lands down to the late 18th century, by which time it was owned by Lord Grantham ambassador in Madrid.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1132 - 1756
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 6,500
Item cost: 82,190
Institution: Leeds Library, The
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 36
Item cost: 144
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Besides the Duke, the letters were addressed to the Bishop of Norwich, the Mayor and several gentlemen appointing them Commissioners to decide the quantity of arms and armour to be maintained by the City for its defence
Item date: 12th - 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,650
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
1500 documents in this collection date from before 1550 with much topographical information and too much [sic] about the medieval glass industry in Staffordshire.
Item date: 1766 - 1775
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,200
Institution: Bristol Record Office
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
Letters to and from members of this important Bristol Merchant family, engaged in the manufacture of porcelain.
Item date: 1771 - 72
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 900
Item cost: 7,345
Institution: Bristol Record Office
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line.
Item date: 1982
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 3,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
One of the projected series of 34 fascicles. The 743 copper plates engraved from drawings by Sydney Parkinson of the plants collected by Banks on his voyage round the world 1768 - 1771 with Captain Cook. The plates, which are housed at British Library had never before been printed in colour
Item date: 1734
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 40,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Only known copy of the plan for the whole of the Essay on Man. One of the 1400 volumes in the collection of Harold Forster of minor verse of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection is particularly strong on anonymous satire, though there are also sentimental, didactic and legendary tales.
Item date: 1708
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 355
Item cost: 355
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
First edition, published posthumously, engraved by H de Baussen
Item date: 1709
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented under the will of Falconer Madan, the collection of pamphlets and books he formed in order to write a bibliography of the Sacheverell affair. There are numerous variant copies of each work and pirated reprints, re-issues, re-impressions and copies with in-press corrections
Item date: 1655
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Dr de Beer with his collection of over 100 early travel books and guides from France Germany Italy and the Low Countries, as well as English works such as Jeffreys A Journal from London to Rome 1742.