Add MS 48092

MUSTER AND ORDNANCE RECORDS; 1569-1574.

1. ff. 1-47. Abstracts from muster certificates made and annotated by Robert Beale; 1573-1574. Muster certificates were returned to the Council, of which Beale was Clerk. The extracts include totals of available men, arms, etc., for the various counties and boroughs. Table of contents at ff. 1-6. For a discussion of the muster, see L. Boynton, The Elizabethan Militia 1558-1638, 1971, pp. 13-50.

2. ff. 53-66. Abstracts from county muster certificates for horses and geldings, made and annotated by Robert Beale; 1574. Table of contents, f. 53b.

3. ff. 77-86b. List of records, 1569-1574, in the muster chest; 1573-1574. A supplementary list by Beale, f. 82, includes one certificate for 1574 used for artt. 1, 2 above.

4. ff. 88-96b. Accounts of the Ordnance and Armoury offices for equipment provided for twenty-four ships fitted out at Chatham; 1 June 1574. The accounts name the ships, but the details of men and equipment are expressed as totals for the whole fleet.

Paper; ff. 1-102. Contemporary pagination to artt. 1-3, as follows: art. 1, pp. 1-88 (ff. 7-52b passim); artt. 2-3, pp. 1-49 (ff. 54-78). Quarto. 1573-1574. Vellum binding, numbered '101' on spine and front cover.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Partly written by: 16th cent.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• ff. 1-66 Army; England: Abstracts of muster certificates: 1569-1574.
• ff. 77-86b Army; England: List of muster records: 1569-1574.
• ff. 88-96b Ordnance: Accounts of the Ordnance and Armoury offices for fitting 24 ships: 1574.
• ff. 88-96b Navy; England: Accounts for ordnance, etc., for 24 ships: 1574.
• ff. 88-96b Chatham, Kent: Accounts for Ordnance, etc., for ship fitted at: 1574.
• ff. 88-96b Accounts: Ordnance, etc., for 24 ships: 1574.