Eight parchment rolls dating from the episcopate of Geoffrey Blythe. They form an important addition to the pre-Reformation records of the episcopal estates held at the Record Office
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1505
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 770
Item cost: 770
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
Item date: 1820 - 50
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
A series of nine account books, complementing the large collection of Corbett family estate papers already held at the Record Office.
Item date: 1602
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,725
Item cost: 135,862
Institution: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Town/City: Stratford
County: Warwickshire
In 1602 William Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land in the open fields of Stratford for 320. This is the unsigned draft intended for Shakespeares signature (that signed by the vendors William and John Combe was already owned by SBT).
Item date: 1820s
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 750
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
15 drawings of three London Churches: St Bartholomew, Sydenham by Lewis Vulliamy, St Philip Clerkenwell, by Edward Buckton Lamb and St Mary the Less, Lambeth by Fracnis Bedford. All the churches have since been demolished.
Item date: 1998
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 15,000
Item cost: 50,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
Two fine sketchbooks, prepared for important early patrons. The Castle in the Air is a fantasy house designed for his family friend Barbara Webb, who had introduced Lutyens to his first client, but who was now terminally ill.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 6,300
Institution: Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
Jacques was a prolific illustrator and her archive contains copies of all the books she illustrated, by some of Britains best known childrens authors including Henry Treece, Philippa Pearce, Nina Bawden, Leon Garfield, Ursula Moray Williams, Roald Dahl and Alan Ahlberg.
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 130,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
The non-current papers of the Society, ranging in date from the 1820s to the 1990s. It includes registers, subscription lists, account books, and a very large accumulation of correspondence.
Item date: 12th century - 1962
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 32,800
Institution: Doncaster Archives (City of Doncaster Archives)
Town/City: Doncaster
County: Yorkshire
As well as the usual estate manuscript deeds and accounts the collection includes documents relating to the remodelling of Cusworth Hall by James Paine and the design of the gardens by Richard Woods.
Item date: 1785
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1400
Item cost: 1400
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Seven ink and watercolour estate plans with accompanying reference tables for lands in St Clements and other parishes. Cartography of the highest quality, meticulously surveyed and finely drawn with many maps embellished with decorative cartouches and drawings. Illustrated at p.29 of AR
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 29,406
Institution: Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
3,000 volumes, comprising Webbs collection of Puffin and other childrens books and reference works.