A French blind-stamped binding with panels of St John the Evangelist and four Biblical figures in compartments; presented together with an elaborately gold-tooled binding by Arthur J Gray, c.1915 on WA Clouston: A Group of Eastern Romances (1889).
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1508
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1794
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Describes a tour in Kent made in September 1794 (Add. MS 57492) presented by Theodore Besterman together with a notebook containing correspondence between Robert Strutt, 4th Lord Rayleigh and Dr Besterman, relating to spiritualism, 1932 (Add MS 57729)
Item date: 1650 - 1720
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 70
Item cost: 300
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
Over 500 estate papers including wills and inventories, household and estate bills
Item date: 1570
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 240
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
Consists of transcripts of deeds relating to Leeke property in Derbyshire
Item date: 1656 - 1757
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 20
Item cost: 20
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Includes churchwardens overseers, constables and surveyors accounts and minutes of charity schoold subscribers meetings
Item date: 1430
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 110
Item cost: 110
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Also includes letters of attorney appointing John Paston supervisor of his Manors of Bentley and Rosehall in Yorkshire
Item date: 1224 - 1330
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 100
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
57 deeds, mainly grants of lands in Kelmarsh. One deed appears to relate to an early form of mortgage or loan on security of lands
Item date: 1560 - 1611
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 550
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
The weekly household accounts detail the usual consuption of the household including food for spaniels, hawks pigeons and swans and give menus for when Carew and his guests were staying at Beddington. Also includes the later inventory of Beddington House taken in 1764
Item date: 1484 - 1705
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 55
Institution: Sussex Archaeological Society
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Records approximately 50 courts, especially interesting during the Common wealth period.
Item date: 1908 - 9
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,730
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
In this diary Wild records Shackleton and his companions painful progress over the Polar Plateau, their decision to turn back and their desperate struggle to regain the ship. Provides many insights that were not part of the official record of the expedition