A family prayer book in its original binding with clasps and the remains of chain fastenings. Early memoranda in the book reveal the familys connection with Edmund Campion, the Jesuit executed in 1581 and with Robert Keyes, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators executed in 1605.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 4,140
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
Item date: 1755
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,400
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
Manuscript with 12 ink and wash plates depicting different views of activity in the centre of the earth and a map showing the world as described in the Old Testament. The work was probably inspired by the Lisbon earhquake of 1755 which killed 60,000 people. Illustrated at p.36 of AR
Item date: 1764, 1823
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 900
Item cost: 900
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Map of Ham Place in Burwash drawn by Walter Gale, naming owners of the neighbouring land and showing house and outbuildings in considerable detail.
Item date: 1970s
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 7,454
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
Includes papers relating to Delderfields novels, including To Serve Them All My Days and the final novel in the Adam Swann trilogy, God is an Englishman
Item date: 1754 - 1890
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 658
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
A complete record of presentments made at the manor court between 1754 and 1832, and 1836 and 1890. They are an invaluable source for genealogists since the names of all jurors are listed, and contain much for the social historian in the shape of local custom and land usage
Item date: 1737
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,250
Item cost: 4,500
Institution: Gainsborough's House
Town/City: Sudbury
County: Suffolk
A scarce book on dance deportment and etiquette privately published by Nivelon, a French dancing master in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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: 1399 - 1509
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 3,863
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
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: 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: 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
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