Includes the architectural and garden plans of James Paine, Richard Woods and Capability Brown for the new castle and grounds of about 1770. The total purchase pric e is for the entire collection split between the Cornish and Wiltshire record offices
Search FNL grants since 1931
A series of manorial accounts remarkable for its continuity. There are a large number of papers relating to the priory of Tywardreath and its possessions, and plans and papers concerned with mining and the production of tin and copper in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Samuel Cockerells design, commissioned in 1813 was never executed. When the house was inherited by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus in 1827 he turned to Lewis Wyatt for an entirely new house in the Jacobethan style.
Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series. Most areas of mainland Scotland and some of the Inner Hebrides are also represented
Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings
Mostly of the period 1830 - 60
Survey made for Sir Thomas Grey (d.1589) when he was in his minority following the death of his father Sir Ralph Grey in 1568.
Editorial correspondence and in-house files, augmenting the papers of Kingsley Martin which have been held at Sussex since 1969. Correspondence includes EM Forster writing about the Warsaw Ghetto, Stephen Spender on Burgess and Maclean and Harold Wilson on post-war Russia.
254 volumes plus 12 printed or written after 1640. The importance of the collection is as an entity, a mirror of the intellectual life of Lord William and his circle. About half the collection are religious works, the most read book being a copy of Calvins Institutio Christianae Religionis.
Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction of Denis Fort on the Helford river and the documents include plans and sketches, lists of soldiers a