A satire on Sir Richard Steele and other Whig writers. John Lacy is a pseudonym, true authorship remains a mystery. The poem contains slighting remarks about the height of Alexander Pope and is therefore listed in Guerinots Pamphlet attacks on Alexander Pope - the fourth earliest such recorded.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1714
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 317
Item cost: 317
Institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Item date: 1737 - 38
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
In the Autumn of 1837 Pope discovered that James Watson had published an octavo edition of his Letters of Mr Pope and several of his Friends under the piratical imprint of Thomas Johnson at The Hague.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 135,000
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
350 letters from John, mainly to his second wife Dorelia, many of them with rapid pen and ink sketches.
Item date: 1586
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 200
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
A collection of prayers takenfrom Scripture, arranged by the days of the week. Extremely popular, it went through 17 editions, from 1579, all of which are extremely scarce, a sure sign of a books popularity as the copies were read until they fell to pieces.
Item date: 1672
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 96,000
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside
The single most important book on clocks, by the inventor of the pendulum clock.
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 600
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside
Bills of loading, posters for Shipping Lines advertising routes between Liverpool and Glasgow; 35 forms for various dates in 1881 and 1882 of the Consulate of the United States listing goods and prices and documenting the shipping process from manufacturer to export
Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 228,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
70 Privy Council letters to the Archbishops of Canterbury, many relating to a period when the registers of the Privy council are missing. Many letters to and from Burghley and Walsingham.
Item date: 1965 - 1983
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 11,707
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London
Extensive correspondence , both letters received and carbon copies of those sent, with translators, literary consultants, editors, publishing houses, academics, funding bodies, the Arts Council and others.
Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
460 medieval deeds and documents, seven albums of copy deeds, legal papers accounts and vouchers ranging from the 14th to the 19th centuries; eight pedigree rolls of the Leigh and related families c.1580 to 1816, and various other papers including correspondence between the Reverend Peter Leigh a
Item date: 1762 - 1819
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 3,970
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
Many extremely rare pamphlets relating to County Durham, on topics such as parliamentary reform, local politics, harbour improvement, local antiquities and local printing