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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]
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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
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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
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1 item

15. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1579-1582
Extent:
2 items

16. 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
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1 item

17. Add MS 78179-78184

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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.
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Sir Richard Browne, MP: Papers as Clerk of the Green Cloth and Comptroller of the Household: circa 1552-1601, n.d.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1552-1601
Extent:
6 items

18. Add MS 78179-78185

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Papers relating to the Royal Household.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1547-1601]
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7 items

19. Add MS 78180

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XIII. Abuses by purveyors; circa 1587-1592. This volume seems to have served as the draft for the following volume. Figures supplied begin in 1587, but mostly relate to the years 1590 and 1591. Formerly Evelyn MS 176. ff. 76. Disbound. Eight gatherings sewn together, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1587-1592
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1 item

20. Add MS 78180-78181

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XIII, XIV. Survey of abuses by purveyors of livestock and feed, etc., to the royal kitchens and stables; circa 1587-1592. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1587-1592
Extent:
2 items