Lot 318 is an oration of Elizabeth I made in St Marys Church to the University in 1564; Lot335 is a briefe extract of such charges as Sir William Pelham sustayned in Irland service 1579- 1580 and Lo t 342 is the Orders and instructions of Robert Earl of Lindsay Admiral of His Majestys fleet, 1635
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Lincolnshire Archives
Town/City: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
Item date: 1829
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
An important letter describing the preparations for the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the worlds first major railway line
Item date: 14th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Includes Yarmouth Frere MSS being the Yarmouth section of the collection of Peter Le Neve, Francis Blomefield and other Norfolk antiquaries
Item date: 1890 - 1938
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
An important record of Norfolk villages around 1900
Item date: 1844-47
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Northamptonshire Public Libraries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
Letters largely concern John Clare the poet and contain copies of 13 hitherto unpublished or variant poems.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
Item date: 1652-1842
Date acquired: 1970
Grant Value: 75
Institution: West Sussex Record Office
Town/City: Chichester
County: West Sussex
Survey of the Demense 1652, map of the Mannor 1724, designs for the house by Jospeh Bonomi 1791; map of Woolhouse Farm 1816
Item date: 1443
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 260
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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.
Item date: 1598
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1600
Date acquired: 1971
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1400
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
First edition of Jamess official version of events in Perth on 5th August 1600
Item date: 1141-42
Date acquired: 1968
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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