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Add MS 59900
- Record Id:
- 032-001998377
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001998377
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x000280
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174687062.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 59900
- Title:
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Household book of Henry VIII for the years 1543-1544
- Scope & Content:
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A household book for the court of Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), including monthly receipts and payments for the period of October 1543 until October 1544, and the rewards given at the beginning of the year 1544 to the royal household, donors, noblemen and clergy.
Contents:
ff. 1r-32r: Monthly receipts for 1543-1544, written in Latin, ‘Receptiones mense Octobris Anno Regis Henrici Octavi tercesimo quinto’.
ff. 43r-47r: Payments (and wages) for October 1543, ‘Ordynary payment[es] i[n] Octob[e]r a[nno] xxxvo’.
ff. 48r-52r: Payments (and wages) for November 1543, ‘Ordynary payment[es] i[n] Nove[m]b[e]r a[nno] xxxvo’.
ff. 54r-63r: Payments (and wages) for December 1543, ‘Ordynary payme[n]t[es] i[n] Decemb[e]r anno xxxvo’.
ff. 68v-73r: Rewards given in 1544, ‘Rewardes gevon on Tewisday Newyeres daye aff hamtou[n]co[ur]te as hath byne accustomed anno R. H. viijmi xxxvo’.
ff. 73v-77r: Payments (and wages) for January 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] in January Tewisday Newyeres day at hamtonco[ur]te’.
ff. 81r-86v: Payments (and wages) for February, 1544 ‘Ordynary payment[es] in February a[nno] xxxvjo Satterday candulmasday at westm[inster]’.
ff. 87r-97v: Payments (and wages) for March 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[e]s in m[ar]che a[nno] xxxv [sic] Sonday at westm[inster]’.
ff. 100r-107r: Payments (and wages) for April 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] in aprell a[nno] xxxv [sic] Sonday at westm[inster]’.
ff. 108r-115r: Payments (and wages) for May 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] in maij a[nno] xxxvjo’.
ff. 116r-126v: Payments (and wages) for June 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] i[n] June a[nno] xxxvjo wytsonday at seint James’.
ff. 127r-131r: Payments (and wages) for July 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] in Julij a[nno] xxxvjo Sonday at westm[inster]’.
ff. 132r-135v: Payments (and wages) for August 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] in auguste Sonday at hamtoncourte’.
ff. 137r- 142r: Payments (and wages) for September 1544, ‘Ordynary payment[es] in septemb[e]r a[nno] xxxvjo’.
ff. 144r-150r: Payments and wages for Michaelmas 1544,‘Quarter wagis at Mighel[mas] Anno R[egis] Henrici Octavi xxxvjto’.
[ff. 29v-30r, 32v-42v, 47v, 50v, 52v-53v, 57v, 63v-68r, 77v-80v, 98r-99v, 107v, 115v, 131v, 136rv, 142v-143v, 150v-158v are blank].
There is an inserted leaf between ff. [i]-1with an 18th-century inscription (by Thomas Martin?) about the restoration of a church in Norwich (1493/1494), excerpted from the writings of John Kirckpatrick (b. 1687, d. 1728), Norwich antiquary ('J. Kirckpatrick'); and a note, written by the same scribe, recounting a ‘Dispensation of Oaths from King Henry 8. (or Cromwell Rather)’ to William Castleton, prior of the Benedictine priory of Norwich for the alienation of the Benedictine Priory of Hoxne, enabling it to sell the house and its revenues to Richard Grisham in 1538, (d. 1549), merchant, member of Parliament, cited ‘ex autog[raphi]’ that are kept at the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.
Decoration:
Numerous large calligraphically decorated initials in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001998377
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001998377
- 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_100174687062.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1543
- End Date:
- 1544
- Date Range:
- 1543-1544
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm (text space: approximately 260 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 158 ( + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); + 1 18th-century paper leaf between ff. [i]-i (numbered 'iv'); 2 stubs before 1r; 3 between f. 32 and f. 33; 1 between 47 and 48, 98 and 99, and 136 and 137. f. 158 is a modern paper leaf.
Binding: Post-1600: 17th- or 18th-century brown calf leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold (‘HEN. VIII ACCOUNT - 1544.1545.’), and containing the old shelfmark references ‘3852’ and ‘550’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England.
Provenance:
Thomas Martin (b. 1697, d. 1771), antiquary and book collector, before 1771: his name inscribed on a pastedown on f [i]verso (numbered ‘iii’).
Craven Ord (b. 1756, d. 1832), antiquary, before 1829: his bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover (numbered ‘i’); his sale, Evans, London, 25 June 1829, lot. 550; purchased by John Cochran.
John Cochran (19th century), London bookseller: purchased at Craven Ord's sale.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquary and book collector, in 1829: his bookstamp (lion rampant), and his initials (‘Sir T. P. Middle Hill’) on f. [i] verso, below the shelfmark ‘3852’, written (twice) in pencil. Philipps acquired the manuscript from John Cochran.
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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Ian Lancashire, Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: A Chronological Topography to 1558 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), p. 48.
Fiona Kisby, ‘“When the King Goeth a Procession”: Chapel Ceremonies and Services, the Rigual Year, and Religious Reforms at the Early Tudor Court, 1485-1457’, Journal of British Studies, 40:1 (2001), 44-75 (ns 44, 134-35, Table 3.a).
Ronald Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 312-13, ns 33.
John Harley, Thomas Tallis (London: Routledge, 2015), p. 17, ns 61.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)