570 letters bound into 11 volumes by the Chester bookseller J Seacombe shortly after Mrs Piozzis death. The Williams family were neighbours of the Piozzis in Wales and amongst their closest friends.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1796 - 1821
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 30,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Item date: 1916 - 1950s
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 3,000
Institution: Queen's University, Belfast
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim
Cummins wrote the first biography of Edith Somerville, based largely on 366 letters written to her by Somerville, now gathered into this collection together with Cummins own records of her visits to the Somerville household in Co. Cork.
Item date: 1695 - 1928
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 165
Item cost: 670
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Includes court books and enclosure commissioners minutes. The Hemingford estate records consist of more than 2500 documents relating chiefly to the affairs of Captain Henry Sholto Douglas
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 190
Item cost: 765
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
450 items; they show the origins, family histories and prevailing interests of a coherent group of middle class people in the Midlands
Item date: 1697-1701
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 165
Item cost: 660
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Parts of this diary were published by William Barnes the Dorset dialect poet
Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
Contains deeds relating to 60 Devon parishes, approximately 500 items dating before 1500. There are 35 court rolls for Haccombe (where the Carew estate was based), the composition of the Church at Holne in 1329 and a document of nullification of a marriage in 1374
Item date: 15th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 6,300
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
The deeds are mainly for West Kent parishes, also includes family and estate correspondence of Sir Thomas Roberts and his agent Thomas Redford, plus Redfords legal papers as attorney and receiver of taxes in the area
Item date: 1721
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Knight was treasurer of the South Sea Company who had fled overseas. Presented together with a 17th century Heraldic seal of the College of Arms, in a contemporary box, by TS Blakeney
Item date: 1583
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only known copy of an edition eight years earlier than any hitherto recorded, with important textual variants
A Comparative View of the Public Finances from the Beginning to the Close of the Late Administration
Item date: 1803
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by John Ehrman, together with two pamphlets: Report from the Committee appointed to Examine the Physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness, 1789, and An Account of a Conversation between the Rt. Hon. Edm Burke and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Gibson, 1807