Manorial rentals for the manor of Hollingrove in Brightling dated c.1440 and c.1550 and a bundle of court rolls of Lord Dacres manors of Herstmonceux, Gotham, Oldcourt, Buckholt and Berwick 1660 - 1671
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1440 - 1671
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 700
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Item date: 1299 - 1907
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 675
Item cost: 2,700
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
As well as the manorial deeds and rental books in this collection there are three court rolls for the special court known as the Hethewarmoot for 1422 - 1481.
Item date: 1866 - 1960
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
Town/City: Smethwick
County: West Midlands
Includes cartoons of stained glass windows and other designs from various stages of the production process. Also includes a large number of g lass photgraphs, covering a variety of subjects such as landscape views to be used in designs or buildings for which windows had been commissioned
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 16,250
Institution: Harris Public Library
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
Collection also contains the working material for Meynells biography of Thompson. One of the 8 autograph note books contains the drafts of his most famous poem The Hound of Heaven
Item date: 1280 - 1953
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 50,000
Item cost: 500,000
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
As well as estate material from the middle ages, there are nationally important papers of the first Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor at the beginning of the 18th century; papers of the 2nd Viscount Melbourne and his wife Lady Caroline Lamb; correspondence of Lady Desborough, two holograph copies of J
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 100,000
Institution: Hereford Cathedral Library
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
267 volumes of history, travel and devotional literature. Left to the church under the terms of Brewsters will, he stipulated that the books be chained. One of only three significant parochial libraries still in situ
Item date: 1433
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 687
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Records the annual rents received by William Fauconer from his Midlington estate, most of the properties being in the Soberton and Droxford areas. No other 15th century rentals are known for this estate
Item date: 1875
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 1, 400
Item cost: 1,400
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Doggerel verses penned while Stevenson was reading for the Bar in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh; the blue paper bifolium upon which the verse translations are written bears the blindstamp of the Advocates library
Item date: 1803 - 12
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 3,600
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A series of 12 letters to Scotts London publishers, Longman and Rees, dealing in fascinating detail with matters relating to the publishing, illustrating and selling of The Lay of the Last Minstrel,1805, Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806, Marmion 1808, and The Lady of the Lake 1810.
Item date: 1911 - 12
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: University College London
Town/City: London
Written during his first two years at St Cyprians prep school, Eastbourne. They show a cheerful uncomplicated boy enjoying life - a very different picture to the one Orwell later chose to give in Such, Such were the Joys, 1968. Illustrated at p.20 of AR