A fine copy of this eight volume work bound in red morocco, gilt, owned by Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, who assisted Nichols in the collecting of information on the West Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire. The resulting correspondence is also preserved with the book
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1795 - 1811
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 11,250
Institution: Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Record Office
Town/City: Wigston Magna
County: Leicestershire
Item date: 16th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 15,000
Item cost: 664,250
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
A vast archive of one of Kents great dynasties, providing a unique resource for researchers on a wide range of subjects from political and social to local history.
Item date: 1399 - 1509
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 3,863
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
Five substantial court rolls complete the remarkable series of manorial records held by Hertfordshire Archives in almost unbroken series from 1399 to 1933.
Item date: 1780
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Terrier compiled for Richard Payne Knight by James Sherriff, a land agent and landscape gardener, based in Birmingham. The volume contains 41 plans, all but one on vellum, with accompanying text.
Item date: 1902 to 1938
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 150,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1928) was the half-sister of the 6th Duke of Portland. In 1902 she married Philip Morrell in 1902 and until 1915, they lived in Bloomsbury where she established herself as a literary and political hostess. From 1915 they lived at Garsington Manor, near Oxford.
Item date: 1800 to 1822
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 45,000 (approximate sterling price)
Institution: Natural History Museum
Town/City: London
This set of an extremely rare botanical monograph contains 1,187 hand-coloured engraved plates and is bound in a contemporary half-leather binding. Volumes 1 to 2 were written by Vietz, an Austrian physician, who later became Professor of Forensic Medicine at Vienna University.
Item date: 1890s to 1955
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Edward Grigg, 1st Lord Altrincham (1879-1955) was a journalist, public servant and politician. The archive reflects all aspects of his life, including the India of his childhood, his period as a journalist with The Times, his service in the First World War and his political career.
Item date: 1493 to 1500
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 39,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Three incunabula (two English and one from Lyons) were bought by the British Library at the sale. The books are (i) John Alcock.
Item date: Late 17th to late 19th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 2,019
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
This is a diverse collection, which includes correspondence, property and administrative records, court papers and even recipes.
Item date: c. 1400
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 67,000
Institution: Glasgow University Library
Town/City: Glasgow
This imposing manuscript, the first volume of a two volume copy of Bartolo da Sassoferrato's commentary of part of the Digest of Roman Law, had been identified as being the partner of the University's Hunterian manuscript 6, which was acquired by Dr William Hunter at some time in the 17