Shiryngton was chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The charter sets out in detail the duties of the chaplain and his daily collect is recited in full
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1459
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 80
Item cost: 300
Institution: London Metropolitan Archives
Town/City: London
Item date: 16th & 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 2,200
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Chaderton was first Master of Emmanuel College, appointed 1584. The volume contains numerous papers concerning puritan criticisms of the anglican liturgy
Item date: 1746
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 200
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
An 18th century drill book with 97 plates
Item date: 1888 - 1911
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 125
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
The letters make frequent reference to the work of DG Rossetti and discuss the work of many writers such as Swinburne. Also acquired at this time were 10 letter sof Michael Frederick Halliday, a close friend of Millais, to William Holman Hunt. 25 of the grant was given by Simon Nowell-Smith
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire
A collection of Civil War pamphlets, broadsides and letters which were all sent to David Pennant in his capacity as High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1642 and preserved by him.
Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
Lot 318 is an oration of Elizabeth I made in St Marys Church to the University in 1564; Lot335 is a briefe extract of such charges as Sir William Pelham sustayned in Irland service 1579- 1580 and Lo t 342 is the Orders and instructions of Robert Earl of Lindsay Admiral of His Majestys fleet, 1635
Item date: 1829
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
An important letter describing the preparations for the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the worlds first major railway line
Item date: 14th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Includes Yarmouth Frere MSS being the Yarmouth section of the collection of Peter Le Neve, Francis Blomefield and other Norfolk antiquaries
Item date: 1890 - 1938
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
An important record of Norfolk villages around 1900
Item date: 1844-47
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Northamptonshire Public Libraries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
Letters largely concern John Clare the poet and contain copies of 13 hitherto unpublished or variant poems. Also includes three letters from Clare to Knight complaining that he cannot leave the Asylum where Knight became House Steward in 1845