Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, was one of two principal commissioners for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1587
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £72,485
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1950 onwards
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £25,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £300,000
Institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
A comprehensive archive maintained by Tony Harrison, the poet, since 1950, comprising 200 large bound notebooks and many other manuscripts, typescripts and annnotated proofs of his work, together with extensive files relating to the development and realisation of his theatre, opera, film and tele
Item date: 1487
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £25,000
Item cost: £465,492
Institution: National Trust, Lyme Park
Town/City: Stockport
County: Cheshire
The unique copy of the first edition of the Sarum text of the Mass, printed for Caxton in 1487 by the Parisian printer Guillaume Maynyal, who was known for his mastery of red and black printing.
Item date: 1917-19
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £225
Item cost: £225
Four autograph letters from Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, to Mr Reeve, a fellow ornithologist, about sightings of birds, 1917-19.
Item date: c.1250-1954
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £300,000
Institution: Northamptonshire Archives Service
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
An outstanding archive of the Aynho estate papers, title deeds, together with personal papers of members of the Cartwright family in public life, including William Ralph Cartwright, MP for Northamptonshire (d.1847); his son Sir Thomas Cartwright, minister in Frankfurt 1830-38 and ambassador to S
Item date: 1371
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £2,400
Item cost: £6,600
Institution: Nottinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
The earliest known record of a religious guild in Nottingham, listing 207 members of the Guild of St Mary, both men and women, from the parishes of SS Mary, Peter and Nicholas, Nottingham, and further afield. even from as far as York.
Item date: 1846-54
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £765
Item cost: £765
Institution: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Town/City: Plymouth
County: Devon
The records comprise a Cost Book, 1846-7; a Petty Cash Book, 1854; a Ledger, 1846-54; and Quarry Receipts, mid-19th cent. They provide a valuable insight into the workings of the poorly documented granite quarrying industry, its costs, materials, labour and transportation
Item date: 1876 to 1880
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 205,600
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-91), statesman and poet, was Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880. The 177 files inlcude his public and private papers from 1876-80 and his correspondence from his Private Secretary's Office.
Item date: 1919 to 1966
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Imperial War Museum
Town/City: London
This collection consists of 51 letters and 6 postcards written by Siegfried Sassoon to Vivian de Sola Pinto between January 1919 and December 1966.
Item date: 1750 to 1753
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 17,625
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Roger Robertson of Ladykirk, Berwickshire, made his Grand Tour in 1750-53 and bought pictures and prints in Italy. His letters home are long and detailed and he frequently assures his parents of the good sense with which he spends his time and his father's money.