Records proceedings of courts for manors formerly in the possession of Evesham Abbey, but distrained at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1542-44
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 725
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Item date: 1374 - 1896
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 638
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Over 2000 items relating mainly to the Wyche family and their Norfolk estates; includes numerous bills for the services of tradesmen such as tailors, peruke makers and school masters
Item date: 1772 - 1885
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 576
Institution: Suffolk Archives
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
The Yearly Meeting Advices of the Suffolk Society 1772-1858; a volume of minutes of meetings of the Suffolk Quarterly Meeting 1862-81 and a volume of minutes of ministers and elders of Woodbridge Monthly Meeting 1835 - 85.
Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 26,619
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Eleven volumes of manuscript music, including Duncan Burnetts book, a collection of 23 keyboard pieces by Scottish and English composers c.1600; Clement Matchetts book 1612, keyboard pieces containing amongst others the only known virginal piece by Willbye; Lady Jean Campbells book c.1635 of Scot
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 7,350
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Possibly a proof copy of the extremely rare supressed edition, used by Halley as a working tool for his research. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Translation by the Huguenot refugee de Rosemond. Presented by John Fuggles together with John Marsh: The great sin and danger of striving with God. A sermon preached against murder and suicide at the funeral of Lydia Beadle at Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 1783
Item date: 1788 - 1844
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Collection of over 200 items, 75 being holograph. There are 40 scientific manuscripts including lectures and papers relating to Daltons discoveries, laboratory notes and meteorological observations
Item date: 1865
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 20
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives, Tennyson Research Centre
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
Finely bound copy with a double fore-edge painting depicting Somersby Rectory and Tennyson's house near Freshwarer, Isle of Wight
Item date: 1830 -63
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 40
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Miss Corlass was the friend and correspondent of both John and his parents. Contains interesting information about Mrs Ruskin (JR's mother) and about his (John's) parents view of his marriage to Effie Gray
Item date: 1884 onwards
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
200 Letter Books from 1884 - 1930 containing copies of thousands of outgoing letters most of them by Herbert Thring, Secretary of the Society. Miscellaneous subject files dealing mostly with legal disputes and 1200 incoming letters from members of the Society.