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Add MS 59899
- Record Id:
- 032-001998376
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001998376
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00027f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174686622.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 59899
- Title:
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Household book of Henry VII for the years 1502-1505
- Scope & Content:
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A household book for the court of Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), including lists of monthly loans, revenues, bonds, obligations, taxes, rents and memorandi for the years 1502-1505 written by John Heron (b. 1470, d. 1522), Treasurer of the Chamber, sometimes signed by the king himself.
Contents:
ff. 1r-101r: Payments, ‘Payment[es] made at Westm[inster] by John Heron from the furst day of Octob[er] anno xviijus vnto the king[es] com[m]yn to westm[inster] die Jovis xxvijo die octo[bri]’.
ff. 103r-104r: Loans-Debts,‘P[ri]mo die Octobr[i] a[nno] xviijmo R[egis] H[enrici] vijmi’.
ff. 105r-113r: Revenues (Feudal dues), ‘P[ri]mo die Octobr[i] anno xviijmo R[egis] H[enrici] vijmi’.
ff. 114r-122: Recognizance bonds, ‘P[ri]mo die Octobr[i] a[nno] xviijmo R[egis] H[enrici] vijmi’.
ff. 123r-182v: Obligations ‘Obligac[ions] primo die Octobr[i] A[nno] xviijmi’.
ff. 183r-183v: Tallies, [Primo die Octobr[i] Anno xvijmo’.
ff. 184r-189v: Loans-Debts, ‘Primo die Octobr[i] anno xviijmo’.
ff. 190r-191v: Income through wardship ('wardes'), ‘Primo die Octobr[i] Anno xviijno’.
ff. 192r-192v: A list of persons owing revenues to the king, ‘Hereafter foloweth the names of suche p[er]sones which[e] haue had no ‘leu[er]ey of theire lands sithen the decease of their[e] auncestoures wherefore the king[es] grace ought to be aunswered of all the hole Reueneuz from that tyme hidder to and ouer that to suche tyme as they haue sued oute their said leu[er]ey’.
ff. 195r-213v: Memorandi, ‘Primo die Obtobr[i] A[nno] xviijno R[egis] H[enrici] vijmi.
ff. 214r-229r: Register of names, by a later (17th- or 18th-century) scribe.
[ff. 193r-104v are blank].
Decoration:
Numerous calligraphically executed large initials in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001998376
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001998376
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174686622.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1502
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- 1502-1505
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 225 mm (text space: approximately 230/290 x 120/180 mm).
Foliation: ff. 232 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 106 and 115 are small pieces of paper pasted onto ff. 105 and 114; 1 paper stub between f. [iv] and f. 1, 5 between ff. 101 and 102, 2 between ff. 122 and 123, 1 between 183 and 184, 6 between 189 and 190, 3 between 191 and 192, and 2 between 213 and 214; 2 types of 16th-century foliation: for the entire manuscript (upper right corner) and for separate sections (lower right corner).
Binding: Post-1600: 17th- or 18th-century brown calf leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold (‘HENRY VII ACCOUNTS - 1503.to.1506’), and containing the old shelfmark references ‘4104’ and ‘1017’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England.
Provenance:
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), antiquary and Keeper of the Records, Tower of London, in the 18th century: his signature on a pastedown on the inside of the front cover (numbered 'iii').
Craven Ord (b. 1756, d. 1832), antiquary, before 1830: his bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover (numbered 'iv').
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquary and book collector, in 1830: his bookstamp (lion rampant) and initials: ‘Sir T. P. Middle Hill’ on f. [ii]recto, below the old shelfmark ‘4104’ (also on the spine) inscribed in pencil. Phillipps acquired the manuscript at Ord’s sale, see Evans's sale catalogue, 25 Jan. 1830, lot 1017.
The Robinson Trust: Purchased by the British Museum, February 1978.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Walter C. Richardson, Tudor Chamber Administration 1485-1547 (Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou Press, 1952), esp. pp. 114-16, and 218-19 [on John Heron].
Sybil M. Jack, 'English Bishops as Tax Collectors in the Sixteenth Century', Parergon, 14.1 (1996), 129-63 (pp. 132-33).
David Grummitt, 'Henry VII, Chamber Finance and the 'New Monarchy': some new Evidence'', Historical Research, 72.179 (1999), 229-43 (p. 230).
Fiona Kisby, 'Religious Ceremonial at the Tudor Court: Extracts from Royal Household Regulations', in Religion, Politics, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England, ed. by Ian W. Archer and others, Camden Fifth Series, 22 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 22, 29-32, ns. 20, 42, 46, 50, 51, and 52.
Margaret Condon, 'God Save the King! Piety, Propaganda and the Perpetual Memorial', in Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII, ed. by Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003), pp. 99-140 (pp. 52, 67, 68, 69, 74, 75, 84, 86, 89, 92; ns. 16, 41, 53, 54, 76, 78, 79, 85, 133, 146, 163, 172-73).
Christopher Wilson, 'The Functional Design of Henry VII's Chapel: A Reconstruction', in Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII, ed. by Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003), pp. 141-88 (p. 141, ns. 2).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)