Transcripts of rentals and custumals of manors in the barony of Lewes and other documents relating to Lewes, 1440, 1535-c.1635, compiled by John Rowe, a lawyer (d.1639). The book was published by the Sussex Record Society in 1928.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: c.1635
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £8,000
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Item date: 1920s
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £900
Item cost: £11,624
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Designs, patterns and other papers relating to the Poole Pottery from the 1920s, complementing the main Poole Pottery Archive held by the Dorset History Centre.
Item date: 1705-1824
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,325
Item cost: £1,416,433 (part of a hybrid acceptance-in-lieu arrangement)
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The political papers and correspondence of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), Home Secretary and Prime Minister, and some earlier family papers.
Item date: 1800-21
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,875
Item cost: £7,750
Institution: Barrow-in-Furness Archive
Town/City: Barrow-in-Furness
County: Cumbria
Nine quarto volumes of diaries and commonplaces of William Fleming of Rowe Head, Pennington (1770-1829), a prosperous and literate yeoman farmer living in a small village near Ulverston, Lancashire.
Item date: 1762
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £1,000
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
A volume of 180 vellum leaves serving as a key to John Probert's maps of Doddington and Broughton, the two seats of the Delves Broughton family, already held by Cheshire and Chester Archives.
Item date: 13th century - 1698
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,250
Item cost: £4,800
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
119 deeds and documents, 13th cent - 1698, relating chiefly to Mascy property in Warrington, with a wealth of early topographical and place-name information.
Item date: 1857-80
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,500
Item cost: £58,750
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
132 letters from Samuel Palmer to Richard Redgrave (1804-88), painter and founder of the Etching Club; his wife Rose (1811-99); their daughters Frances (1845-1932) and Evelyn (1849-1942); and his brother Samuel Redgrave (1802-76), art critic and civil servant.
Item date: 1831
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £974
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
In 1831 a recently formed Union of Northumberland Miners struck for a wage increase and a shortening of their working hours of 17-18 a day. The present papers mainly comprise letters to the Clerk of the Peace for Northumberland, Mr Thorpe, from Thomas Turnbull, his Deputy Clerk.
Item date: Late 19th and early 20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £33,000
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
Family papers of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), comprising correspondence, copies, printed pieces and photographs. Included are manuscript recollections of India, and 34 letters, 1881-1933, from Kipling to his parents John Lockwood and Alice Kipling, and to Edith Plowden, a family friend.
Item date: 1587
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £72,485
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, was one of two principal commissioners for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.