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Add MS 21480
- Record Id:
- 032-002033862
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002033862
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x00023a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174683881.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21480
- Title:
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Household book of Henry VII for the years 1499-1505
- Scope & Content:
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A household book for the court of Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), recording the royal receipts and disbursements for the years 1499-1505, partially written by John Heron (b. 1470, d. 1522), Treasurer of the Chamber, sometimes personally signed by the King.
Contents:
ff. 2r-7r: Payments, ‘Paymentes made by John Heron for the kinges grace from the last day of Septembre Anno xvth unto the ffurst day of January the same yere’.
ff. 8r-28vr: Payments, ‘Hic Incipit Duplum Novi Libri Solucionis Domini Regis Henrici Septimi Devolutum per Johannem Heron a primo die Octrobris anno xviijo Regni nostri Regis predicti'.
ff. 29r-31r: Loans.
ff. 32r-40v: Revenues (inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'Revenuez'), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 41r: -50r: Recognizance (inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'Recognisance'), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 51r-131r: Obligations (inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'Obligacions'), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 131v-149r: Name index to obligations, written by a later (17th- or 18th-century) scribe.
ff. 150r-151r: Tallies (inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'Tayles’), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 152r-159v: Debts (inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'Debtes'), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 160r-162v: Wardship income (inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'Wardes'), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 163r-163v: A list of persons who are dispossessed of lands after the death of an ancestor who was the tenant-in-chief (inscription on parchment: ‘Liverey of Landes’), 'Herafter foloweth the names of suche persounnes which have had no lyverey of their landes sithen the desceasse of ther auncestres Wherfor the kinges grace ought to be aunswerd of all hole the Revenues from that tyme hiderunto that and over that unto such tyme as they have sued oute ther saide lyverey'.
ff. 164r-192r: Memorandi (inscription on parchment: ‘Remembrances’), 'Primo die Octobris Anno xvmo'.
ff. 193r-198v: Distribution of lands and wardships (inscription on parchment: ‘Exitus Diversarum Terrarum et Wardorum Domini Regis’), 'Exitus Terrae Domini Regis' [Item written in Latin].
[ff. 1r, 7v, 31v, 50v, 149v, 151v, 192v, [192a] recto, and [192a] verso are blank].
Decoration:
Numerous large initials in brown ink decorated calligraphically throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002033862
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002033862
- 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_100174683881.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1499
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- 1499-1505
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 340/320 x 250/220 mm (text space: approximately 250/240 x 130/180 mm).
Foliation: ff. 198 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated 15th-century paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated 15th-century paper flyleaves and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 192 and 193 (f. [192a]); 2 paper stubs between f. 151 and f. 152; the manuscript's quires have been mounted onto paper stubs; parchment labels have been pasted on ff. 32r, 41r, 51r, 150r, 152r, 160r, 163r, 164r, and 193r.
Binding: British Museum binding, the spine inscribed in gold ('HOUSEHOLDBOOK OF HENRY VII 1499-1505'); a portion of the old spine with the inscription 'HENRY VII ACCOUNTS' has been pasted on the inside of the front cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England.
Provenance:
Thomas Martin (b. 1697, d. 1771), antiquary and book collector: his name inscribed on a pastedown on the inside of the front cover.
Thomas Astle (b 1735, d 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: his name inscribed on a pastedown on the inside of the front cover; purchased by Craven Ord.
Craven Ord (b. 1756, d. 1832), antiquary: his bookplate on a pastedown on the inside of the front cover; inscription that he purchased the manuscript from Thomas Astle: ‘I had this vol[ume] of Mr Astle in exchange for a Ms Taxation of Ecclesiastical Property formerly Mr Ectons’ followed by a note ‘This Memorandum is in the handwriting of Craven Ord, Esq.’ (f. 1v); his sale January 1830, lot 1018, inscribed on f. [v] recto; purchased by Henry Belward Ray.
Henry Belward Ray (d. 1856), collector and scholar: inscription that he purchased the manuscript from Craven Ord (f. [v] recto): his bookplate with the inscription ‘Pymme’s Library’ pasted on the inside of the front cover; his sale 26 July 1856, lot 1047 (note on f[v]recto); purchased by the British Museum for £39.
- 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 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952), pp. 130, 147, 160, 168, 80, 464.
Steven Gunn, 'The Structures of Politics in Early Tudor England', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5 (1995), 59-90 (pp. 71, 78, 82, 89).
David Grummitt, 'Henry VII, Chamber Finance and the 'New Monarchy': some new Evidence', Historical Research, 72.179 (1999), 230-43 (pp. 230, 234).
Sean Cunningham, 'Loyalty and the Usurper: Recognizances, the Council and Allegiance under Henry VII', Historical Research, 82.217 (2009), 459-81(p. 463).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)