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Add MS 62525
- Record Id:
- 032-001962938
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001962938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x000154
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163534062.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 62525
- Title:
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New Year's Gift Roll of Queen Mary I, 1557, with wedding, christening and other gifts made by the Queen, 8 Feb 1556-10 Feb 1557
- Scope & Content:
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New Year's Gift Roll, 1557. This records gifts exchanged between Queen Mary I and her Court on New Year's Day, 1 Jan 1557 (3 & 4 Philip and Mary). Signed by the Queen in four places at the head and foot of each side of the roll ('Marye the quene'), and once (on the recto) by Richard Wilbraham, Master of the Jewel House.
The verso contains a list of gifts presented to the Queen by members of her court, the givers being arranged in groups according to their rank and station. The gifts have a great range, headed by that from the Queen's sister, the Lady Elizabeth, 'the fore parte of a kyrtell and a peire of Sleves of cloth of Silver richly embroidered all over with Venice Silver and rayzed with silver and blake silke'. Other gifts include clothes, handkerchiefs, plate and glassware, jewellery, books (including a prayer book), religious objects, swans and capons, and fruit. Mrs Levyna Terling gave a small picture of the Trinity and Henry Mynkes's wife pomengranates, oranges and lemons 'and a table with the kings picture in it'. Avis Byllyard gave small marchpains, oranges and a basket of Frennch pippins. Sir Henry Nevell gave a lute in a case covered with black silk and gold, and two little round black 'tables', one of the Emperor Charles V and King Philip, the other of the King of Boehmia and his wife. Sir John Mason gave 'a mappe of England stayned upon cloth of silver in a frame of wodde Having a drawing cover painted with the King and Quenes Armes And a booke of Spanishe covered with blake vellat'. 'Sabostian', schoolmaster of St Paul's, gave 'a booke of Ditiies written'.
On the recto is a corresponding list of gifts presented by the Queen, all of gilt plate, with a note of the weight of plate distributed to each, arranged in groups as on the verso. At the foot are recorded wedding, christening and other presents made by the Queen, 8 Feb 1556-10 Feb 1557. Such gifts include a mitre and crozier to Cardinal Pole and a gilt salt given to a woman of Bury for healing the eye of 'Jane the foole'.
When John Nichols edited the manuscript for Illustrations of the Manners and Expenses of Antient Times in England (1797), the manuscript was in the hands of William Herrick, who as direct descendant had inherited the roll from Sir William Herrick [Heyrick] of Beaumanor, Leicestershire (bap. 1562, d. 1653), moneylender and royal official, who was principal jeweller to King James I, Queen Anna and the Prince of Wales, 1603-1625.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001962938
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001962938
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163534062.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1557
- End Date:
- 1557
- Date Range:
- 1557
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 4265mm x 415mm (writing area: 3220-3680mm x 280mm).
Foliation: Roll of 6 membranes.
Script: Mid 16th-century scribal hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Wiliam Herrick [Heyricke] (bap. 1562, d. 1653), moneylender and royal official; principal jeweller to James I.
William Herrick (1797)
Christie's sale cat., 19 June 1968, lot 135.
Purchased by the British Library through Sotheby's, July 1982.
- Publications:
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The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: New Series 1981-1985, Part I; Descriptions (London, British Library, 1994), p. 107.
A.J. Collins, Inventory of Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I (London: British Library, 1955), pp. 249, 274.
D.M. Loades, Mary Tudor: A Life (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), pp. 358-69. Summary of this manuscript.
John Nichols, Illustrations of the Manners and Expenses of Antient Times in England (London: printed by and for John Nicholas, 1797), pp. 1-28 (separate pagination). This text reprinted when it was in the possession of the Herrick family at Beaumanor Park, co. Leic..
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)