Estate papers of the Pigot Family of Somerford Radnor, 13-17th cent. The Pigots were a leading Cheshire family, and the archive records their connections with other prominent local families such as the Downes of Somerford and the Throstles of Macclesfield.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 13-17th cent.
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £2,750
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Item date: 1787
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £300
Item cost: $950
Institution: Chepstow Museum
Town/City: Chepstow
County: Monmouthshire
A justification by Valentine Morris (1727-89) of his conduct during his unsuccessful defence of St Vincent, which was captured by the French in 1779.
Item date: 16th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £3,250
Item cost: £20,000
Institution: Carmarthenshire Archive Service
Town/City: Carmarthen
County: Carmarthenshire
Family and estate papers of the Stepney-Gulston Family, 16-20th cent. Includes manuscripts and diaries of Alan Stepney-Gulston, Victorian poet and novelist, and Josepha Heath-Gulston, the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Talbot Gwynne.
Item date: 1557-60
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £25,000
Institution: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office
Town/City: Berwick-upon-Tweed
County: Northumberland
Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 1549-52
Item date: 1987-1994
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: US$15,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library
Town/City: London
Artists' Books in limited editions.
Item date: 1747
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,200
Item cost: £3,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A previously unrecorded manuscript anti-Jacobite poem, 1747. Nothing is known of the author.
Item date: 1774-1843
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 83,050
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
A very extensive archive of letters addressed to William Gunn (1750-1841) of Norfolk, art critic, collector and writer over half a century.
Item date: 1880 to 1975
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
This collection comprises about 1,300 architectural drawings by the Exeter firm Herbert Read, predominantly of ecclesiastical woodcarving, mostly in Devon, together with a collection of order books and correspondence.
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,632
Item cost: 6,527
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Croft's working autograph manuscript (27 pages in his hand) with many revisions, deletions and inclusion of names of the singers.
Item date: 1495
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 25,350
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, died of the Black Death in 1349. His book on geometry, illustrated throughout with remarkable marginal diagrams, is thought to be the first printed book on mathematics by an Englishman.