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
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1649
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 6,000
Institution: Worcester College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
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: 13th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Buckinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Aylesbury
County: Buckinghamshire
Many of the documents relate to the Whitelock and Freeman families who held the estate before its purchase in 1832 by Edward Mackenzie
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,102
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
Manuscript verse miscellany made by a leading citizen of Lichfield, and relative of Samuel Johnson. It also includes local history of the periods 1748 - 58 and 1783, recording restoration work on the Cathedral and houses in the Cathedral Close
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: £1,038
Item cost: £4,113
Institution: Northamptonshire Public Libraries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
Both letters written by Clare to his home in Northborough, one during a visit to London, one in his asylum period, the last known from his hand. The sonnet is an early version of a published poem (which is not recorded in AR).
Item date: 1771 - 1875
Date acquired: 1993
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 4,000
Institution: Northampton Museums and Galleries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
833 titles in 28 volumes. The only known set of patents from the footwear industry to be bound together as an accessible unit. A significant reseach tool for scholars at the countrys national collection of historic footwear and archive of the shoemaking industry
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
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: 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: 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.