Presented by the British Records Association. A varied collection of family correspondence but with a portion related to the defence of the coasts of England and Ireland at a time when Townshend was Master-General of the Ordnance. Add MSS 50006 - 50012
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1750-1790s
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1199-1216
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Only Chartulary of the Abbey known to exist, the roll is over 20 ft in length and includes a catalogue of the library mentioning two books in English. Add MS 49996
Item date: 1420-1440
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 750
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bought with 7 other manuscripts; 66 full page miniatures, style deriving from Van Eyck and his successors. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add MSS 49999 - 50005
Item date: 1881
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Stoke on Trent College of Art
Town/City: Stoke-on-Trent
County: Staffordshire
Lecture delivered at Burslem Town Hall. Printed at the Chiswick Press using Morris' Golden type. Presented by EJ Nicol
Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Painted by an Italian artist; presented by TS Blakeney together with a collection of about 100 literary and political autographs of 19th and 20th centuries. Add MSS 49458, 49520
Item date: 1403
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase of this manuscript
Item date: 1677
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Oxfordshire County Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Inscribed by RA Bathurst, Vice Chancellor of the University 1676. Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett
Item date: 1822
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
Book bound in Aberdeen. Presented by A Ehrman
Item date: 1413
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: 5
Institution: Borough of Winchelsea
Town/City: Winchelsea
County: East Sussex
A Charter granting Masses to be said for Vincent and Isabella Fynch, written on vellum with a seal in good condition
Item date: 1820-1859
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
8 folio volumes bound in vellum containing pedigrees of Shropshire families with coloured armorial bearings