The material relates mainly to parishes near Chicksands and Shefford in central Bedforshire. As well as the usual estate papers there are papers concerning the sequestration of family estates during the Civil War and letters concerning the Spanish War in 1741 and 1743
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1499 - 1888
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Bedfordshire and Luton Archives Service
Town/City: Bedford
County: Bedfordshire
Item date: 1958 - 1985
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
Thwaite, first an editor for the BBC, later literary editor of The Listener and The New Statesman became Larkins close friend and acted as editor and sounding board through much of Larkins life.
Item date: 1798 - 1917
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 14,820
Institution: Royal College of Music
Town/City: London
These ledgers provide unique information on the development of the harp by Sbastien Erard, one of the most gifted inventors in musical history, who also devised the double escapement for the pianoforte as well as the single and double action harp.
Item date: 1650
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 630
Item cost: 1,260
Institution: Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Town/City: London
The Duc de Rohan was, after Coligny, the most admired, even heroic, of the Hugenot leaders in the struggle against the Catholic power in the French religious wars. Copied from the same source as the 1644 edition, but differing in some points from that of 1646.
Item date: 1511
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Only known copy of this edtion (STC 15809.5) In a contemporary blind-stamped calf binding with a panel on the front cover showing St George slaying the dragon and on the rear cover St Michael thrusting Satan into the abyss. Presented in memory of Lord Kenyon by a group of his friends
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
80 printed volumes of Davies poetry together with a bound volume of autograph fair copies of 15 poems some of them apparently unpublished, submitted to James Guthrie for publication by the Pear Tree Press.
Item date: 1772
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 1,960
Item cost: 5,880
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
Sketches in pen and brown ink, with occasional wash; several drawings are clearly trial poses and compositions, but roughly twice as many are for subjects pictures, often no more than the rough outline of a body.
Item date: 1818
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,136
Institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Written when Barnes was 16 years old, an attempt at epic written on the back of two almanacs for the years 1813 and 14.
Item date: 1511
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Durham Cathedral
Town/City: Durham
Groups of polemics on aspects of Franciscan order and social attitudes and behaviour. Bound in a contemporary blind-stamped binding by Wynkyn de Wordes binder. STC 17971.3
Item date: 1592 - 1650
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 2,250
Item cost: 9,000
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Many of the documents illustrate both the preparations and the course of the Civil War.