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Lansdowne Roll 17
- Record Id:
- 032-003451991
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003451991
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100078845839.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162924116.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne Roll 17
- Title:
- Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Richmond, 1 Jan 1589
- Scope & Content:
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Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Richmond, 1 Jan 31 Elizabeth I [1589].
mm. 1r-5r: 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 money given at the end comes to £795. 19s. 2d. The list is headed by the gift by Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor, of a richly bejewelled necklace and pair of bracelets.
m. 6r: The signatures of John Astley, Master of the Jewel House and his clerks.
m. 6v: Signature of Queen Elizabeth I.
mm. 5v-2v: On the verso is a corresponding list of recipients of gifts, which were all of plate, with a note of the weight, type of object, distributed to each and the name of its maker. The list is headed by Sir Christopher Hatton, receiving 400 ounces three quarters in gilt plate. Sum total of plate given 4,541 ounces three-quarters.
m. 2v: Gifts given at sundry times. 23 April 1588-3 March 1589 (m. 2v). Amongst diplomatic and christening gifts are, all on St George's Day 1588, jewelled insignia of the George and of the Garter to Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, of the Garter to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and of the George and of the Garter to Sir Christopher Hatton.
m. 1v: Signature of John Astley and his clerks.
m. 7 was added on, with 10 further names (who the previous year had been listed under 'Gentlemen'): two apothecaries, a Venetian merchant and agent of Sir Francis Walsingham's, the calligrapher Petruccio Ubaldini and six musicians. However, the membrane was attached to the rest of the roll back-to-front:
m. 7r. Gifts in plate given to these ten men, with the total of the plate given them: 62 ounces three-quarters.
m 7v: Gifts from these ten men.
The roll is signed in five places by the Queen and in two places by John Astley, Master and Treasurer of the Queen's Jewels, with four clerks (Nicholas Bristow junior, Clerk of the Jewels, and Stephen Fulwell, John and Nicholas Pigeon, Grooms and Yeomen of the Jewels and Plate).
Similar rolls for the years 4, 9, 18, 26 and 30 Elizabeth I (1562, 1567, 1576, 1584 and 1588) are now Harley Roll V 18; Add MSS 9772, 4827; Egerton MS 3052; and Add MS 8159 respectively.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Lansdowne Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003451991
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003451991
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162924116.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1589
- End Date:
- 1589
- Date Range:
- 1589
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 3520mm x 390mm.
Script: Late 16th-century secretary hand.
7 membranes sewn together to form one roll.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum, 1807.
- 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. 251.
Felicity Heal, The Power of Gifts: Gift-Exchange in Early ModernEngland (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. 386-405.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)