Search FNL grants since 1931

An important record of Norfolk villages around 1900

Letters largely concern John Clare the poet and contain copies of 13 hitherto unpublished or variant poems.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

Survey of the Demense 1652, map of the Mannor 1724, designs for the house by Jospeh Bonomi 1791; map of Woolhouse Farm 1816

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.

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

First edition of Jamess official version of events in Perth on 5th August 1600

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

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.

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.

The Rolls relate to the manors of East Betchworth and Aglands Moor