Boxes of deeds and papers relating to four main groups.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1988
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Item date: early 16th century
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 19,500
Institution: Eton College Library
Town/City: Eton
County: Berkshire
Commonplace book by William Horman, Headmaster of Eton 1501 - 35. Contains jottings on history, chronology and geography with extensive quotations from the Latin poets.
Item date: 1514 - 1900
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 4,800
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Several hundred evidences of title to the manor of Mickleton in the north Cotswolds
Item date: 15th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,800
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
Family and estate papers concerning financial settlements, genealogy, appointments and honours. The letters staret in the 16th century and include one from Lord Burghley about religious disorders in Winchester in 1564.
Item date: 1652
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,300
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Manuscript estate plan in ink and colours on vellum, the second oldest such plan in the H&W record office. Illustrated at p23 of AR
Item date: 1714
Date acquired: 1987
Grant Value: 317
Item cost: 317
Institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
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.
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 Library
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.