Depicts the manor of Anstey in northern Hertfordshire belonging to William Robinson Lytton. It records field names and shows buildings in primitive perspective. Thomas Browne went on to become Garter King of Arms in 1774
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1730
Date acquired: 1992
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 700
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
Item date: 1649
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 6,000
Institution: Worcester College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
An almost complete run (February 1645 - October 1649) lacking only numbers 75 and 81. Its editor, John Dillingham was also a tailor, supplying uniforms to the parliamentary army
Item date: 1719 - 1911
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 4,000
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Estate account books, a journal containing a detailed inventory of William Trumbulls good and debts and three large workmens day books. Collection also contains the diary of Robert Lee of Binfield 1737 - 39 and three memoranda books of the Earl of Stirling 1717 - 1738
Item date: 1640 - 41
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This book is the result of Dugdales ambitious programme to record as much as possible of medieval church architecture and decoration as he could before the iconoclasts of the Puritan movement could do their worst.
Item date: 1696
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 287,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only surviving example of Purcell's harpsichord music written in his own hand. Includes five previously unknown pieces by Purcell and four previously unrecorded arrangements for keyboard of his theatre music and unknown movements from his keyboard suites.
Item date: 1812
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Letters written between July and October 1812 when Radcliffe, as magistrate, was active in restoring public order after the machine breaking and violent robberies of the Luddite protestors in the Huddersfield area
Item date: 1802 - 17
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
MS letter from Coleridge to Colonel Moore about Mary Robinson, the Maid of Buttermere, who had been bigamously married to James Hatfield in 1802. The annotated copy of Remorse is probably the only copy to remain in Britain.
Item date: 1794
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,075
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Repton invented a system of showing his clients before and after effects on their parkland landscapes by means of watercolour pictures with added paper flaps or fliers which could be turned back to reveal the improvements.
Item date: 15th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
The Mostyn Owens were an Anglo Welsh family with estates on the borders of the two countries. The early papers reveal much about the survival of Welsh place and personal names in north west Shropshire.
Item date: 1420
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 100,500
Institution: Norwich Castle Museum
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Lavishly decorated with historiated intials, including one of the donor kneeling in prayer before the Virgin. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR