Search FNL grants since 1931

An early draft of the later version of the poem, published in 1873 with numerous textual variants

31 deeds, mostly grants of lands with many good seals still intact. 14 of the deeds relate to the Waleran family from the Uffculme area

The letters contain much information, political and social, about England and Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Evidently produced for John Williams, Dean of Westminster and Archbishop of York.

A memorandum of the observances at Beckets shrine written by two monks of Christ Church Canterbury, who were guardians of the shrine. Gives an overall picture of the cult of the saint with attendant religious and tourist industries

Includes eight poems by Byron composed in the period 1812-15, She Walks in Beauty among them described as Lines written by Lord Byron after seeing Mrs Wilmot at Lansdowne House). Presented by RG Powell in memory of Frank and Hilda Gordon. Add MS 58802

Presented by Dr Theodore Besterman for the newly founded Voltaire Room in the Institution together with 367 French plays of the mid and late 18th century, plus the first four collected editions of the Works totalling 156 volumes.

Two letters to W Marshall appear to have been addressed to the architect of the extensions Ruskin made to Brantwood. Other recipient unknown

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

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