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1. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1560-1587
Extent:
1 item

2. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1576-Feb [1580]
Extent:
1 item

3. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585-1589
Extent:
2 items

4. 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

5. 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

6. Add MS 78178

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Earl of Leicester's disbursement book, 1584–1586
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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

7. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585-1588
Extent:
1 item

8. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1585-15 Feb 1589
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 78177

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Earl of Leicester's inventory book
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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-Jun 1582
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 78176

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Title:
Inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle
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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