The substantial personal and estate archive of a prominent and well-connected family owning nearly 12,000 acres in Norfolk.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 13-19th centuries
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £115,000
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £3,480
Item cost: £13,993
Institution: Nottinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
A portfolio of 24 drawings, fourteen of Rufford Abbey, five of Ollerton Hall, three of a proposed church at Ollerton, one possibly of Osberton Hall and one unidentified. They were probably commissioned by Sir George Savile, 8th Bt. (1726-1784), the owner of Rufford Abbey and Ollerton Hall.
Item date: c.1180-90
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £4,110
Institution: Nottinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
This fine charter is a confirmation of a grant of nine bovates of land in Eakring, Nottinghamshire by Matthew, Abbott of Rufford, to Osbert de Capella and Emma his wife. A seal of Osbert depicting his device (a wheel?) is attached to the charter.
Item date: 1920s - 1970s
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,265
Item cost: £5,063
Institution: Nottinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889 - 1968) was one of the leading provincial architects of his day.
Item date: 16th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £25,000
Item cost: £2,850,000
Institution: Southampton University
Town/City: Southampton
County: Hampshire
The 4,000 boxes containing the Broadlands Archives, dating from the 16-20th centuries, are one of the UK’s most important family and estate collections.
Item date: 1670, 1675
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £300
Item cost: £500
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
A printed map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea in two sections, evidently produced in connection with a disputed proposal to erect a ballast shore at Jarrow Slake. No other copy of the 1675 section appears to be known.
Item date: 1315-1637
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,250
Item cost: £7,638
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire
Wiltshire Archives purchased a number of Alderton deeds at the 2009 auction, with help from the Friends of the National Libraries. They were unable to secure the above lots at the time.
Item date: 1767-77
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £1,200
Item cost: £1,200
Institution: Wallace Collection
Town/City: London
A volume containing seven very rare catalogues for art sales which took place in the Low Countries between 1767 and 1777, as well as extracts in manuscript for three further sales.
Item date: 1840
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £2,800
Item cost: £8,245
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
These two unpublished letters give fresh insights into different stages of Wordsworth’s life.
Item date: 1817
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £11,000
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
A copy of the first edition of Coleridge's verse translation of his friend Hyman Hurwitz's Kinat Yeshurun', one of only five copies known in the UK.