Correspondents include WH Frere and Christopher Wordsworth
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 14th & 15th centuries
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
Court rolls, rental notices, and various deeds regarding the property of the Dering family in Kent
Item date: 1677-90
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
In a letter to Danby December 2nd 1688, Compton described the escape of Princess Anne to Nottingham
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A fascinating record of exceptionally early date of a minor secular landowner. Add MS 54228
Item date: 1656-57
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only surviving Minute book of the Committee for Discoveries, one of the many such committees set up by the Long Parliament in a desperate attempt to finance their war against the King. Add MS 54198
Item date: 1750
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 250
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
About 800 pages of very varied material including notes for a second edition, never published, of the Original Theory of New Hypothesis of the Universe, plus astronomical tables and drawings of star maps
Item date: 1400
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 35
Institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire
In unusually good and complete condition. 19 initials illuminated in red, pink, organge, yellow, blue and green, with a generous quantity of gold and a little silver. MS Add 115
Item date: 1150-75
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
In its original monastic binding with two other religious treatises
Item date: 1791
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 70
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
With watercolour sketch plan of the Battle of Seringapatam
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
The accumulation of a lifetimes fanatical collecting. Estimated as possibly 750,000 portrait engravings, particularly strong in 18th and 19th century work; the periods in which the NPG was until this acquisition, particularly weak