A document of great importance for Yorkshire history and the study of open field systems and land division. A secular cartulary, probably drawn up for Thomas Bank of Bank Newton, c. 1433.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 14th - 15th century
Date acquired: 1996
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,583
Institution: Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 49,935
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Archive includes multiple drafts and detailed working notes for all the published and several very interesting unpublished plays and translations; an unpublished early novel; correspondence with friends and theatre colleagues, agents and editors, files of minutes and papers for the council of the
Item date: 1750
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Published by Thomas Jefferys, the large world map shows the track of Admiral Lord Ansons fleet which returned in 1743 laden with plunder from the captured Manila Galleon.
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,200
Item cost: DM 9345
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A topographical and historical survey of Switzerland and adjoining regions, unusually in duodecimo format with 1090 pages and 109 plates, many folded. No copy listed in the NUC or the Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschen Schrifttums 1700 - 1910. Total price given is in DM, not sterling
Item date: 1811 - 27
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,307
Item cost: 5,200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Gillies was an impecunious editor, minor poet and translator who lived in Edinburgh 1788 - 1858.
Item date: 1810 - 17
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Lockhart is best remembered today as the biographer of Scott and for his biting attacks on the poetry of Leigh Hunt and Keats in Blackwoods Magazine, but in his youth he was also a spirited caricaturist, papering the walls of his rooms at Oxford with sketches of his friends and foes.
Item date: 1807 - 1818
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,800
Item cost: 3,800
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Six autograph letters some of substantial length, several being addressed to his difficult step-daughter and her husband with copies of others and transcripts and drafts of replies to his relations, together with a quantity of financial and legal papers.
Item date: 1773
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 2,625
Item cost: 10,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
One of only two multi-volume works known to have been bound by Scott, arguably the finest bookbinder ever to have worked in Scotland.
Item date: 1352
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 1,410
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London
An official record of the parliament held at Westminster between 13th January and about 11th February 1352. It is independent of the main formal parliament roll, held at PRO (ref C65/15), but apparently in an official Chancery hand.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,125
Item cost: 6,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Manuscript journals of a journey to Vienna in 1851 and a journey to Palermo in 1868. The former includes autograph letters from Herbert Minton, Coles travelling companion as well as maps, ephemera, bills and receipts.