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
Search FNL grants since 1931
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
Records approximately 50 courts, especially interesting during the Common wealth period.
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
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
Notification by Gilbert de Pinkey to the Bishop of Lincoln that he has confirmed the grants made by his grandfather and father.
Describes a tour in Kent made in September 1794 (Add. MS 57492) presented by Theodore Besterman together with a notebook containing correspondence between Robert Strutt, 4th Lord Rayleigh and Dr Besterman, relating to spiritualism, 1932 (Add MS 57729)
Commences with the marriage treaty between Charles VIII and Anne de Bretagne 1491; the bulk of the volume are Acts of Francis I 1518-1543. Presented by TS Blakeney, Add MS 50866
A military plan of Palghat fort, Malabar illustrating its capture in 1783 by Colonel William Fullarton and the Corps of Hanoverians from the Poligars of the southern peninsula. The author served with distinction in the engagement
Fifth edition, an unrecorded piracy. Lacks B9, 10, 12