The late 13th century charter is a grant of land in Little Oxendon (a deserted medieval village). The Easter Books are of Brington 1585 -86 and are early examples of detailed accounts of one aspect of a rectors income
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 13th - 16th centuries
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 43
Item cost: 171
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
Item date: 1455
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 39
Item cost: 156
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Grant of lands by John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lyhert Bishop of Norwich and others to the Great Hospital Norwich
Item date: 1381-9
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 54
Item cost: 280
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Deeds relating to the manor of Pollyng, Odiham, the property of the Esturmy family.
Item date: 1816
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 18
Item cost: 38
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Letter about the church at Hastings estate at Daylesford, which he was in the process of rebuilding
Item date: 1623
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Presented by Mrs Marian Webb from the library of the late Christopher Webb. Also included in the gift were a Greek New Testament of 1550 (the editio Regia) and MF Quintilianus Institutiones Oratoriae, 1480
Item date: 17th - 20th century
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1448
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
A collection of some 500 volumes from the library of the liturgical scholar BJ Wigan
Item date: 13th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 100,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Approximately 2000 items, no less than 1188 being earlier than 1500
Item date: 1788 - 1844
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Collection of over 200 items, 75 being holograph. There are 40 scientific manuscripts including lectures and papers relating to Daltons discoveries, laboratory notes and meteorological observations
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Translation by the Huguenot refugee de Rosemond. Presented by John Fuggles together with John Marsh: The great sin and danger of striving with God. A sermon preached against murder and suicide at the funeral of Lydia Beadle at Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 1783
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 7,350
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Possibly a proof copy of the extremely rare supressed edition, used by Halley as a working tool for his research. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR