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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1640 - 41
Date acquired: 1994
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
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: 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: 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