3,000 manuscript title deeds, 450 dating from before 1600, court rolls, rentals surveys and plans of the estate. Also an important archive of letters from the Commonwealth period when the estate was owned by Colonel Philip Jones, a trusted friend of Oliver Cromwell.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 13th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 75,000
Institution: Glamorgan Archives
Town/City: Cardiff
County: Glamorgan
Item date: 13353 - 1435
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
14 deeds relating to property in the area of Newland in the Forest of Dean; they help to reveal the areas early development with much topographical information, personal names, occupations and relationships.
Item date: 1753
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 2,901
Item cost: 5,802
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Drawn up at Fountaines death by Captain William Price, the catalogue constitutes a major source for our knowledge of Fountaines collection and its display at Narford.
Item date: 1816 - 42
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 1,750
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
50 letters to and from Wyatt, 26 written by the Duke containing specific instructions for work at Apsley House.
Item date: 1971 - 93
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 30,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Over 800 letters from MacCaig (recipients not listed); they range widely over his life, work and his opinions of the work of other writers.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 12,075
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A stock book for 1858 - 69 and ledgers which record all items published by the company between 1844 and 1897. Also in-house annotated catalogues of Novellos own publications and details of agreements with other music publishers
Item date: 1721
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 620
Item cost: 620
Institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire
George Lawson bequeathed his library to the living at East Harsley in 1725, where it remained until rescued from the vicarage attic in 1976 after the death of an incumbent and it was taken to York Minster Library.
Item date: 1853
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: £200
Item cost: £200
Institution: Wiltshire Museum
Town/City: Devizes
County: Wiltshire
This catalogue represents the basis of the Societys library, formed by Britton in 1853; he used this MS catalogue to persuade William Cunnington III to sell his collection of Wiltshire antiquities to the newly formed society
Item date: 1600
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 2,426
Item cost: 9,375
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
A coloured map, commissioned by Ralph Sheldon, founder of the tapestry works at Barcheston. The earliest known map of Brailes, highly finished and decorated with Sheldons coat of arms, it was obviously intended for display rather than use. Illustrated at p.35 of AR
Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1995
Grant Value: 6,000
Item cost: 130,000
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
One of the most important and extensive family archives from the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Ingilby family has lived at Ripley since the 14th century and the archives reflect a long and continuous pattern of landholding and estate administration in the area.