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Add MS 9772
- Record Id:
- 032-003451927
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003451927
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100078828005.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162920384.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 9772
- Title:
- Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1567
- Scope & Content:
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Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 9 Elizabeth I (1567).
The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal, the total of money received being given at the foot as £1141. 17s. Gifts include a miniature by the painter Levina Teerlinc ('By Mrs Levyna Terlyng the Picture of the Quene her Majesties whole stature drawne upon a Carde paynted') and, from Robert Cooke, Chester Herald, 'A Booke of Ames of the Quenis Majesties progenitors Tytle to the Crowne of Englande and Fraunce'.
On the verso is a corresponding list of recipients of gifts, which were all of plate, with a note of the object and its weight, distributed to each and the name of its maker, the total being given as 4151 ounces.
There is also on the verso a list of diplomatic and christening gifts, 26 Apr 1566-16 Jan 1567. These gifts include a gold font ('Oone Funte of golde with a cover garnesshid with sundry curious peces of golde enameled') weighing 333 ounces, given by Elizabeth I at the christening of the son of Mary, Queen of Scots. On 27 June 1566 James Melven (i.e. Melville), sent from Mary Queen of Scots. was given a gold chain.
The roll is signed in four places by the Queen and in two by John Astley, Master and Treasurer of the Queen's Jewels, with three clerks (Edmund Pigeon, Yeoman of the Jewels and Plate, and John Pigeon and Stephen Fulwell, Grooms and Yeomen of the Jewels and Plate).
Similar rolls for the years 4, 18, 26, 30 and 31 Elizabeth I (1562, 1576, 1584, 1588 and 1589) are now Harley Roll V 18, Add MS 4827, Egerton MS 3052, Add MS 8159 and Lansdowne Roll 17 respectively.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003451927
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003451927
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 parchment roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162920384.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1567
- End Date:
- 1567
- Date Range:
- 1567
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 3510mm x 400 mm.
Script: 16th-century secretary hand.
5 membranes sewn together into one roll.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum, 1834.
- Publications:
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Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I: the Inventory of 1574, ed. by A. Jefferies Collins (London: British Museum, 1955), p. 250.
Felicity Heal, The Power of Gifts: Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603, ed. by Jane A. Lawson, Records of Social and Economic History New Series vol. 51 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013). The roll is transcribed at pp. 116-33.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)