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1. Add MS 78168

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. I. Accounts of William Gonson and Benjamin Gonson the elder as owners of the merchant ship ‘Matthew Gonson’, al. ‘Matthew’; 1535-1553. Imperfect. These include: (a) detailed bills of lading for goods consigned at Southampton for delivery to Messina, with the trademarks of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1535-1553
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 78168-78171

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WILLIAM AND BENJAMIN GONSON. 78168-78171. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-IV. Papers of William Gonson (d. 1545) and Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577), relating to the Navy, with some family and estate papers; 1535-1577. Partly Latin. William Gonson was succeeded in the office of Treasurer of the Navy by his son Benjamin (called the elder to distinguish him from his own son Benjamin, d. 1600, Clerk of the Ships). Gonson’s naval accounts for 1544-1545 are in Add. MS 7968, while versions of th...
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Benjamin Gonson, Treasurer of the Navy: Accounts as Treasurer, family and estate papers: 1551-1577.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1535-1577
Extent:
4 items

3. Add MS 78168-78271

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GONSON AND BROWNE 78168-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-CIV. Papers which accrued to the Evelyn archive as the family papers of Mary, wife of John Evelyn (1620-1706) and only surviving child of Sir Richard Browne, Bart (1605-1683). They consist of papers (78168-78171) which descended to Browne through his mother Thomasine (d. 1638) from her father Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577) and grandfather William Gonson (d. 1545), both of whom had been in turn Treasurers of the Navy; further pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1660
Extent:
109 items

4. Add MS 78168-78693

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EVELYN PAPERS
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Correspondence and papers of the Evelyn family of Wotton, Surrey, and related families; 16th-early 20th centuries. The core of the archive consists of the papers of John Evelyn the diarist (1620-1706), to which are added those of his wife’s family (Gonson and Browne) and his own (Evelyn and Stan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
633 items

5. Add MS 78169

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. II. Accounts of Benjamin Gonson, the elder, for works carried out on the Queen’s ships at Deptford; 1 Oct.-31 Dec. 1562. These include payments relating to ‘the new makeing of her majestys new shippes and boattes called The Victory The Tryumphe and the Ayede’, as well as repa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1562-26 Oct 1563
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 78170

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. III. Accounts of Benjamin Gonson, the elder for works at Deptford and Woolwich; 31 Sept.-31 Dec. 1563, with additions 1564-1565. Signed on each page by William Holstock, Comptroller of the Navy and Surveyor of Victuals at Deptford, and William Wynter (kt. 1573), Surveyor o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1563
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 78171

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 53). Accounts for works at Deptford, Portsmouth and Gillingham, etc.; 1562-1564; with some family and estate papers, 1572-1577. Partly drafts. 1. Accounts for works at Deptford, Portsmouth and Gillingham; 156...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1562-1590
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 78172

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 55). Miscellaneous papers and accounts mostly relating to military and household duties and mercantile ventures of Leicester; 1565-1586. 1. ff. 1-4. New Year's gifts received by and presented to Leicester; 1564. Included are jewels, plate and household stuff, cloth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1560-1587
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 78172-78178

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Papers of the Earl of Leicester 78172-78178. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V-XI. Papers of and relating to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; 1552-1589, n.d. The provenance and former extent of this collection are described by Adams, loc. cit.; while a brief account (now PRO SP 45/20/282) by Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State 1674-1678, is abstracted in a ‘Calendar of documents relating to the history of the State Paper Office to the year 1800’, in the Thirtieth Report of the Deputy Keeper...
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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Sir Richard Browne, MP: Accounts, inventories, etc., assembled by Sir R. Browne as servant to the Earl of Leicester: 1552-1589, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1552-1589
Extent:
7 items

10. Add MS 78172-78185

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Add MS 78172-78185
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SIR RICHARD BROWNE (d. 1604), M.P. 78172-78185. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V-XVIII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne (circa 1538-1604), M.P., as servant to the Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth I, etc.; 1552-1601, n.d. In the 1570s Browne entered the service of Robert Dudley (d. 1588), Earl of Leicester, Steward of the Household to Elizabeth I. On the death of his patron he obtained the post of Clerk of the Green Cloth and subsequently of Clerk Comptroller of the Household (1596). Between 1584 and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1552-1601
Extent:
14 items