This is one of the most important keyboard music manuscript from 16th century England. It is the earliest of four surviving MSS of this time, the others being those of Thomas Weelkes and Will Forster (BL) and the Fitzwilliam virginal book (Cambridge).
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1591
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 421,444 (tax remission)
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1795
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Roget (1779-1869), best known for his Thesaurus, studied medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1795, he toured the Highlands with his uncle (Sir) Samuel Romilly, the lawyre and reforming politician.
Item date: 17th - 19th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 710,000 (tax remission)
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The archive begins with John Coleridge, vicar & schoolmaster of Ottery St Mary, and his ancestors back to the 17th century.
Item date: 18th & 19th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 985,000
Institution: Natural History Museum, Library
Town/City: London
This comprehensive collection, assembled over 20 years, comprises 1,628 printed works by Darwin (including first English editions of all titles and many foreign language editions); c.
Item date: 1852-69
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 345
Item cost: 690
Institution: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Town/City: Plymouth
County: Devon
This set of diaries provides a rare insight into the Evangelical work of the Mission in Plymouth. Many entries relate to the victims of the cholera ourbreak.
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 275
Institution: National Trust, Florence Court
William Cole, 3rd Earl (1806-87), assembled a collection of over 10,000 fossils at Florence Court, sold to the British Museum in 1883.
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 156,846 (tax remission)
Institution: British Museum
Town/City: London
This archive falls into two parts. The first is the surviving archive of the Rev. Philip Hunt, who was Lord Elgin's chaplain during his embassy (1799-1803).
Item date: 15-20th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
The Argal Manor papers cover a wide range of documents, including estate maps, deeds, leases, a Penryn Borough document from 1498 and the Gweek Coal papers of the 19th century.
Item date: 1752-61
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,350
Item cost: 4,199
Institution: Bath Record Office
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
Richard 'Beau' Nash (1674-1762) arrived in Bath in 1705 and was quickly appointed Master of Ceremonies, with virtual control over all Bath's social life. This collection of 68 items mostly comprise letters written to Nash by Rowland Leffever, a fellow victim of gambling debt.
Item date: c. 1921 to 1949
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 9,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
The collection consists of c. 105 architectural drawings by Philip Tilden (1887-1956), representing 20 schemes and including alterations to Stoke Edith, Herefordshire and Anthony House, Cornwall. Many drawings are annotated or signed by Tilden.