Includes memorandum book of Edmund Morton Pleydell, a memorandum book of tithes for Milbourne 1807 - 13, correspondence with George IV and some two hundred letters between members of the family at home and abroad from 1760s to 1860s.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 137
Item cost: 550
Institution: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Item date: 1510 - 1825
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 2,057
Institution: Bristol Record Office
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
270 items, mostly from the first half of the 17th century, relating to the activities of Thomas Smyth landowner and Royalist MP for Bridgwater in the period leading up to the Civil War.
Item date: 1649-53
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 42
Item cost: 169
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
Comprises accounts for the repair and building work carried out by the Earl of Warwick who was Naval commander for Parliament throughout the Civil War. The house was famous for having the first Orange House in England.
Item date: 13th - 16th centuries
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 43
Item cost: 171
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
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
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