Also includes letters of attorney appointing John Paston supervisor of his Manors of Bentley and Rosehall in Yorkshire
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1430
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 110
Item cost: 110
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Item date: 1224 - 1330
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 100
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
57 deeds, mainly grants of lands in Kelmarsh. One deed appears to relate to an early form of mortgage or loan on security of lands
Item date: 1560 - 1611
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 550
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
The weekly household accounts detail the usual consuption of the household including food for spaniels, hawks pigeons and swans and give menus for when Carew and his guests were staying at Beddington. Also includes the later inventory of Beddington House taken in 1764
Item date: 1484 - 1705
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 55
Institution: Sussex Archaeological Society
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Records approximately 50 courts, especially interesting during the Common wealth period.
Item date: 1908 - 9
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,730
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
In this diary Wild records Shackleton and his companions painful progress over the Polar Plateau, their decision to turn back and their desperate struggle to regain the ship. Provides many insights that were not part of the official record of the expedition
Item date: 1770-1815
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Brighton Public Library
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
Consists of Bailiffs books and farming records, including a record of timber cut on the estate and notes of the exact amounts of work done by each man in the fields and the payment he received
Item date: 1148-68
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 220
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Notification by Gilbert de Pinkey to the Bishop of Lincoln that he has confirmed the grants made by his grandfather and father.
Item date: 1459
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 80
Item cost: 300
Institution: London Metropolitan Archives
Town/City: London
Shiryngton was chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The charter sets out in detail the duties of the chaplain and his daily collect is recited in full
Item date: 16th & 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 2,200
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Chaderton was first Master of Emmanuel College, appointed 1584. The volume contains numerous papers concerning puritan criticisms of the anglican liturgy
Item date: 1746
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 200
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
An 18th century drill book with 97 plates