Copes own assemblage of evidence to be used in his defence at the Board of Enquiry which met to investigate the disastrous engagement with the Jacobite army at Prestonpans, of which he had been the General Officer commanding.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1745 - 46
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 21,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Item date: 1708
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,125
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A very rare and early contribution to the subject of determining longitude, written by an Englishman resident in Hamburg, but printed, as far as it is known, only in this German translation, which is accompanied by an original English poem and a previously unrecorded world map.
Item date: 1770
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 400
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Copy of an original map of 1652, since lost. Made for Samuel Dixon when he took on the lease of the Wallingtons estate from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Item date: 1952 - 67
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 13,500
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
A remarkable series of 1285 letters, written by Masefield to Audrey Napier-Smith, violinist in the Hall orchestra, provides an invaluable record of the Poet Laureate in his last 15 years.
Item date: 1620
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 1,400
Institution: Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Town/City: London
Four persecution tracts bound in one volume.
Item date: 1853 - 1900
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 2,115
Item cost: 8,459
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
Collection of over 400 letters. 260 letters are from Robert, first Earl of Lytton to Kent, author and journalist, who helped Robert publish the life of his father Edward Bulwer Lytton. Kent was a family friend and also correspondend with Roberts wife Edith and their son Edward.
Item date: 1304 - 1836
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 4,500
Item cost: 9,131
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Manuscript deeds of various properties at Chawton 1304 - 1525, together with a volume of transcribed deeds for Chawton 1547 - 1621. These considerably augment the papers already in the Record Office from the Knight family archive for the medieval period.
Item date: 1768 - 69
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Gainsborough's House
Town/City: Sudbury
County: Suffolk
Manuscript journal of two tours made by Bunbury to Rome and to Florence, before he became well known as a caricaturist in London.
Item date: 1600 - 1743
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Essex Record Office
Town/City: Chelmsford
County: Essex
The earliest map is the work of John Walker senior and his son for Thomas Mildmay, dated to about 1600. The second map, drawn by anothe r member of the Walker family, Samuel, was drawn for Sir Henry Mildmay in 1623.
Item date: 1496
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 350
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
This document antedates the earliest surviving archives of Hastings Corporation by almost a century. It details the sufficiency and number of the men of Hastings ready to repel an invasion from France or Flanders from whence Perkin Warbeck had tried to invade a year earlier