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11. Add MS 78173

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. VI. Accounts of John Barker, merchant, with the Earl of Leicester; May 1576-Feb. 1579/80. Autograph, signed on final page. These record credits and debits for ships registered in various English ports, viz: the White Bear, the Nicholas of Barnstaple, Robert of Bristol, the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1576-Feb [1580]
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 78174

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. VII. Abridged accounts of the Barbary Company; 1585-1588. This covers the first four years of trading, ending at midsummer 1588, with a few additional entries extending into the fifth year. Credits and debits involving Leicester, Attye, Staper and Avenon are listed through...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585-1588
Extent:
1 item

13. Add MS 78174-78175

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. VII, VIII. Accounts of the Merchant Adventurers trading to Barbary; 1585-1589. Fair copies, partly imperfect. Letters patent were issued on 5 July 1585 (PRO, C66/1266/1-3) for the charter of the Barbary Company, which was to run for twelve years. Leicester was a leading member, along with his secretary (later Sir) Arthur Attye, Richard Staper, a Levant merchant, and Alexander Avenon, who acted as agent in London. Henry Roberts, agent in Morocco, returned from Marrak...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585-1589
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2 items

14. Add MS 78175

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. VIII. Abridged accounts of the Barbary Company; 21 June 1585-15 Feb. 1589. Fair copy.Imperfect at beginning and end. These were compiled from annual accounts submitted by individual members and servants of the Company (cf. the ‘Callender’ on f. 1, and the ledger- and foli...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1585-15 Feb 1589
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 78176

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Title:
Inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–45v: Volume IX of the Evelyn Papers. An imperfect, possibly draft inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle, c. January–May 1582. The inventory of Leicester House (ff. 1r–26v), which incorporates (ff. 2r–6v passim) some notes of valuation, concludes with ‘A note of a new...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-May 1582
Extent:
1 volume

16. Add MS 78176-78177

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. IX, X. Inventories of goods in Leicester’s houses; circa 1579-1582. Included are lists of the contents of Leicester House, in London, Kenilworth Castle, co. Warwick, Wanstead, co. Essex, Grafton Court, co. Northants., and Stoke Newington, co. Middx. Some eight separate inventories of Leicester’s goods, dated between 18 July 1580 and 21 Nov. 1590, are listed among the papers of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat in H.M.C., 58th Report, V, 1980, pp. 202-224. Another, of f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1579-1582
Extent:
2 items

17. Add MS 78177

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Title:
Earl of Leicester's inventory book
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–84r: Volume X of the Evelyn Papers. ‘An Inventory Booke aswell of Plate Asalso of Hanginges...and other furniture of Houshold of...Therle of Leicesters...as remayneth in the chardge of Dyvers Persons in sundrye his Lordshippes Places Maii 1582...’, c. January–June 1582. Included are list...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-Jun 1582
Extent:
1 volume

18. Add MS 78178

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Title:
Earl of Leicester's disbursement book, 1584–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–81v: Volume XI of the Evelyn Papers. Imperfect disbursement book of the Earl of Leicester, 1584–1586. The entries, dated 10 and 17 April 1584, 2 October–13 December 1585, 21–31 March and 26 May–30 June 1586, record payments made on Leicester’s warrant to household servants, tradesmen and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1586
Extent:
1 volume

19. Add MS 78179

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XII. Regulations for the reformation of the household of Elizabeth I; n.d., after 1575. Fair copy, with revisions and additions in several hands. These orders, which replace those issued in the first year of Elizabeth’s reign, are said to be transcribed from those set out ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1575
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 78179-78184

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XII-XVII. Papers of Richard Browne as Clerk of the Green Cloth (1588) and Clerk Comptroller of the Household (1596) to Elizabeth I; etc.; circa 1552-1601, n.d. Six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Sir Richard Browne, MP: Papers as Clerk of the Green Cloth and Comptroller of the Household: circa 1552-1601, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1552-1601
Extent:
6 items