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Add MS 5476

Record Id:
032-003441879
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003441879
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x00018a
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100163598714.0x000001
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5476
Title:
The original Register of the Minutes of the Privy Council, 10 May 1545-13 June 1547
Scope & Content:

The original copy of the Register of the Minutes of the Privy Council, from 10 May 1545 to 13 June 1547. The entries from 10 May 1545-26 Jan 1547 (ff. 3r-320r) cover the end of Henry VIII's reign, and partially cover a period missing from the sequence of Privy Council Registers in the National Archives (PC 2). The early months of the reign of Edward VI, 6 Feb-13 Jun 1547 (ff. 321r-361r), overlap with the copy in The National Archives, PC 2/2, covering the period 31 Jan 1547-4 Oct 1549. This copy may be more the original working copy.

There is a further crucial distinction between the two volumes. For the reign of Henry VIII, Add MS 5476 is unambiguously a register of Privy Council meetings, headed by the Councillors (or some of them) present. Under Edward VI these disappear, and the volume becomes more unambiguously a record of responses to in-letters and of out-letters. The last dated meeting is 13 Jun 1547, but this is followed by the latter warrant, dated 4 Jun 1547 (see the discussion in Dale E. Hoak, The King's Council in the Reign of Edward VI [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976], pp. 24-26).

There are intriguing symbols and hieroglyphs in the margin at ff. 34v, 72v, 177v, 219r-220v, 230v, 236v, 237v, 252v, 254v, 272v, 297v-298r, 312r, 332r (probably merchants' marks relating to the orders they are beside).

The Privy Council registers have been calendared in Acts of the Privy Council of England Volume 1, 1542-1547, and Volume 2, 1547-1550, ed. John Roche Dasent (London, 1890), both accessible on British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/acts-privy-council [accessed 4 December 2019]. The Edwardian correspondence in Add MS 5476 is pp. 437-509 of the latter volume.

Contents:

f. 1r: Title-page. This gives the regnal years of 32 Henry VIII and 1 Edward VI and -- probably in a 17th-century hand -- a note on when Edward VI began his reign 91546[/7].

f. 2r: List of 4 or 5 names in a mid 16th-century hand.

ff. 3-320r: Register of Privy Council meetings, Henry VIII, 10 May 1545-26 Jan 1547.

ff. 321r-361r: Register of Privy Council business, Edward VI, 6 Feb-13 Jun 1547.

f. 362r: The declaration of John Williams, Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, presented 6 Dec 1545.

f. 363r: A note of monies growing by the sales of the last commission. Between periods ending 20 June and 22 Aug. No year given.

f. 364r: The declaration of the Commissioner of the Tenth, 5 Dec 1545.

f. 365r: The declaration of Mr Roup [?], 5 Dec 1545.

f. 366r; Jottings of figures.

f. 366v: Notes of memoranda to be written to the Council of Boulogne and the Customer of Weymouth, n.d.

f. 367r: Jottings of payments from various English counties for the lord Admiral and the Pale at Calais, n.d.

f. 368v: A proportion of the ordnance to be sent out of the Tower of London for furnishing the Calais pale, n.d.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003441879
Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
032-003441879
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume
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Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1545
End Date:
1547
Date Range:
10 May 1545-13 Jun 1547
Era:
CE
Place of Origin:
England.
Access:
Available for research unless otherwise stated

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 295mm x 190mm (writing area: 260mm x 150mm).

Foliation: 367 ff. (plus three unfoliated modern flyleaves at the front and two modern unfoliated flyleaves at the back).

Scripts: Various 16th-century secretary hands.

Binding: British Museum.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

The volume may have been removed before 1619, when a fire in the old Elizabethan Banqueting House in Whitehall destroyed a number of Privy Council records.

Purchased by the British Museum by order of the Committee, 13 Jan 1816, from the Reverend Thomas Wilkinson for 5 guineas.

Former Internal References:
Plut. XVI. D
Publications:

P.R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973 (London: the British Library, 1973), p. 153.

Dale E. Hoak, The King's Council in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)