Four charters of confirmation by the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield of the appropriation by the Abbey of churches and chapels in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, dated 1277, 1282, 1316 and 1456.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1277 - 1456
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,938
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 4,471
Item cost: 10,846
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information. Daniel came of an important Cornish merchant family, being himself a farmer and trader in timber and pilchards.
Item date: 1780 - 1810
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Derby Museums
Town/City: Derby
County: Derbyshire
A uniquely important group of designs for tablewares produced by the Derby Factory, containing nearly 400 designs for plates and nearly 750 designs for cups.
Item date: 1876
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 339
Item cost: 1,351
Institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
A hitherto unpublished early letter from Hardy, responding to a question from JH Nodal, Secretary of the English Dialect Society, about the dialects used in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hand of Ethelberta and A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Item date: 1825 - 1972
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 12,000
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
The railway history of the County of Dorset begins with the Portland Railway Company, formed by a group of merchants to better transport Portland Stone from the quarries.
Item date: 1715 - 17
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 4,100
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
Papers dealing with the security measures taken in northern England at the time of the 1715 Jacobite Rising.
Item date: 1770 - 80
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,408
Item cost: 3,881
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Two designs for fire grates, two designs for a garden temple and plans and an elevation of houses for the Genovese recorded as a design for a building in the park.
Item date: 1843
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: Ironbridge Gorge Museums
Town/City: Telford
County: Shropshire
A slim unpretentious volume of tile designs is one of only three known survivng examples of Mintons first trade catalogue. Herbert Minton perfected a method of making encaustic titles for church floors using medieval methods and designs.
Item date: 1594
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Bales was the greatest English calligrapher of the Elizabethan age, and these Latin verses are a fine example of his exquisite penmanship. The Latin verses were probably written as a flattering present for Archbishop John Whitgift from whom Bales hoped for patronage. Illustrated at p.
Item date: 1539
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 11,666
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Pole was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterb ury. These letters date from the period at which Pole was a fugitive from Henry VIII on the continent trying to persuade the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France to raise an army to restore England to the Roman obedience