Richard Duke of York was Lieutenant Governor of France and Normandy and this elegantly written document is of great historical significance as it may be said to mark the beginning of the end of the English attempt to control France.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1443
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 260
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1598
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The first English translation of part of the account of the first Dutch expedition to the Iast Indies. Only one other copy known of this edition; it contains woodcut illustrations including one of a bird labelled emu but now described as a Cassowary. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Item date: 1600
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1400
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
First edition of Jamess official version of events in Perth on 5th August 1600
Item date: 1141-42
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The Empress Matilda's Charters are very rare and the present example which has a seal depicting her as Queen of the Romans is rarer still. Additional Charter 75724. Illustrated as frontispice to AR
Item date: 15th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The gift of Henry Davis. The most important single gift since the Huth Bequest of 1910. Includes a 15th century Canterbury blind-stamped binding, books from the libraries of Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Books bound by Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne.
Item date: 1513-1732
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire
15 Court Books, small folio in vellum wrappers or boards. The Manor of Downton, near Salisbury belonged from the earliest times to the Bishops of Winchester who leased it out, most notably at the time of these records to the Earls of Pembroke.
Item date: 1325-1615
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
The Rolls relate to the manors of East Betchworth and Aglands Moor
Item date: 1250-1500
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
Original deeds for a Priory for which no cartulary exists, almost 800 deeds of the Priory's property in Staffordshire, some for a Lost Village' that would have disappeared at the Black Death
Item date: 13th-15th centures
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
These deeds give material information about the early history of the manor of Kinlet and the genealogy of the Brampton family, one of the few which can be traced with certainty beyond Domesday
Item date: late 12th century
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Only known copy. In its original binding, also contains the following works: Augustine's De Origine animae; Hildebert of Tours: Expositio canonis missae and Ivo of Chartres: Sermo de sacramentis neophitorum habitus in sinodo