Main contents are the statutes of the realm, from Magna Carta to the early 14th century, about equally divided between Latin and Anglo-French, with a list of weights sealed in the guildhall at Marlborough in 1431 and an inventory of the borough plate in 1493
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1320s
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 600
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire
Item date: 1590 - 1714
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 105
Item cost: 420
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
70 documents of interest for the information they contain about the work of constables of hundreds and parishes, justices of the peace and other holders of public office, especially for Wallington and Kingston upon Thames
Item date: 12th - 16th centuries
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 650
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
Approximately 200 deeds, 50 being 13th century, 140 14th century. They shed mu ch light on landholding and land usage in Shropshire
Item date: late 12th century to 1870s
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
The collection is rich in election material, lieutenancy and militia papers and extensive genealogical papers. Contains the letter book of Sir Philip Wodehouse 1599 - 1608 during which time he was a JP and a leading commissioner of musters
Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,900
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
The text is particularly valuable for the history of the County in being the only known source for many events. Relates more to political and administrative detail than ecclesiastical events
Item date: 1264 - 1280
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 120
Item cost: 380
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Records fines levied for offences against tge Forest Law such as the unauthorised taking of venison or timber. Some of the earliest extant records for the Forest which at that time extended over much of Berkshire
Item date: 1793
Date acquired: 1974
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 585
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Fine large paper copy bound in contemporary red morocco gilt with the four magnificent proof plates engraved by Cazenare and Colibert
Item date: 1596 - 1610
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Early autograph album of the Scots diplomat Sir Michael Balfour. Includes the signatures of James VI, Henry Prince of Wales, and Christian IV of Denmark with a series of watercolour sketches of scenes and characters in Padua and Venice
Item date: 1908 - 1939
Date acquired: 1973
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,800
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
41 Letters from Virginia Woolf with 14 from her brother Adrian Stephen and two from her other brother Toby
Item date: 1589
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 3000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
A record of the examination under torture of the printers of the Marprelate tracts, written in a rapid cursive hand with numerous deletions and additions. Signed on every page by the commissioners and Symmes, Tamlin making a mark only - eloquent testimony to what was being done to him