Includes memorandum book of Edmund Morton Pleydell, a memorandum book of tithes for Milbourne 1807 - 13, correspondence with George IV and some two hundred letters between members of the family at home and abroad from 1760s to 1860s.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 137
Item cost: 550
Institution: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Item date: 1290
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 5,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A counter roll or check list kept by the Controller of the Wardrobe to monitor accounts of the Keeper. Lists expenses of the Royal Household of Edward I and Queen Eleanor. Purchased in memory of TS Blakeney, including 100 bequeathed by him and 100 donated by his friends
Item date: 1200
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
In a magnificent jewelled binding from Trier (illustrated as frontispiece to AR) Presented by John Ehrman in memory of his father Albert Ehrman, creator of the Broxbourne Library, together with some 2,000 other examples of fine bindings one hundred manuscripts and approximately one hundred incuna
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Presented by John Ehrman, this is one of some 557 items which formed the Broxbourne collection of type specimens and books of typographical interest. The type specimens were listed in The Book Collector for 1956.
Item date: 1623
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Presented by Mrs Marian Webb from the library of the late Christopher Webb. Also included in the gift were a Greek New Testament of 1550 (the editio Regia) and MF Quintilianus Institutiones Oratoriae, 1480
Item date: 17th - 20th century
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1448
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
A collection of some 500 volumes from the library of the liturgical scholar BJ Wigan
Item date: 13th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 100,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Approximately 2000 items, no less than 1188 being earlier than 1500
Item date: 1479
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Printed by William Caxton 24 March 1479. A religious treatise on the mutability of the world and the certainty of death. One of only three perfect copies known
Item date: 1802- 1837
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 42,000
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
Amongst the collection are 31 letters dating from 1810 -12 between Mary and William Wordsworth, an early copy of the poem addressed to Sara Hutchinson by Coleridge published as Dejection: an Ode in the hand of MW and letters from Dorothy concerning the illness and death of the Wordsworths daughte
Item date: 17th - 20th century
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 120,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
Warwick Castle was granted to Fulke Greville in 1604; there are many court rolls of the manor and borough of Warwick; in 1642 the management of the familys considerable estates nationwide were amalgamated into a great series of account books that were continued in almost unbroken sequence into th