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Stowe MS 557
- Record Id:
- 040-001953377
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00005b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162939607.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 557
- Title:
- Inventory of the royal wardrobe, 1600
- Scope & Content:
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Inventory of the robes and jewels owned by Queen Elizabeth I in July 1600. Beginning with items from the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. Includes notes of articles being given away by the Queen, with signatures of the recipients. With extracts from records relating to the Royal Wardrobe.
f. 3r ‘A Booke of all suche Robes Apparell Silkes Jewells and other stuffe in the chardge of Sir Thomas Gorg knight gentleman of hir majestys garderobe of Robes’: Fragment of vellum binding with title.
f. 4v Title page: ‘A Booke of all suche Garments Jewells Sikles and other stuffe garnishmentes of golde pearke and stone and also of dyverse stones of severall natures and workemanship as are remayning in the Offyce of the Garderobe of Robes the day of Julie in the xlvith yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth […]’.
ff. 5r-7v List of items from the reign of King Edward VI: ‘Robes late kinge Edwarde the vith’ (f. 5r), ‘Apparell’ (ff. 5v-6v), ‘Jewelles’ (ff. 7r-7v).
ff. 8r-8v Gowns from the reign of Queen Mary I: ‘Gownes late Queene Maries’.
ff. 9r-99r Inventory of items: ‘Kirtells’ (ff. 9r-10r); ‘Robes’ (ff. 11r-17r); ‘Frenche Gownes’ (ff. 18r-24r); ‘Rounde Gownes’ (ff. 25r-29r); ‘Loose Gownes’ (ff. 30r-36r); ‘Kirtells’ (ff. 37r-45r); ‘Forepartes’ (ff. 46r-55r); ‘Peticoates’ (ff. 56r-64r); ‘Cloakes’ (ff. 65r-71r); ‘Cloakes and Saufegardes’ (ff. 72r-74r); ‘Saufegardes’ (ff. 75r-75v); ‘Saufegardes and Juppes (ff. 76r-79r); ‘Dublettes’ (ff. 80r-85r); ‘Lappe Mantles’ (ff. 86r-87r); ‘Silkes’ (ff. 88r-90r); ‘Fannes’ (ff. 91r-92v); ‘Pantobles’ (ff. 93r-93v); ‘Sundrie Parcells’ (ff. 94r-94v); ‘Jewells’ (ff. 95r-99r).
ff. 100r-101r ‘Jewells Receaved by Sir Thomas Gorges Knight of the charge of the ladie Katherine Howarde Countesse of Nott.’
ff. 102r-104r ‘Jewells Receaved by Sir Thomas Gorges Knight of Mrs Mary Radcliffe’.
ff. 105r-109v Notes by Thomas Astle, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts (1735-1803), titled ‘De Gardaoba Regis’ (ff. 105r-105v), ‘A Succession of the Masters of the King’s Great Wardrobe’ (ff. 106r-107v), ‘Comp. Willimi Soveney clerici magnae Garderobe […]’ (ff. 108r-109v).
Includes signatures of: Robert Pamplyn, Yeoman of the Robes; Lucy Hyde; Susanna de Vere, daughter of Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford; Frances Brooke, wife of Henry, Baron Cobham and widow of Henry Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare; Audrey Walsingham; John Baker, upholsterer; Francis Gofton; Sir Thomas Knyvett; Sir Edward Carye, Master of the Jewels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953372
040-001953377 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 553-567 : CLASS XI.ROYAL HOUSEHOLD, WARDROBE ACCOMPTS, INVENTORIES,ETC.
Stowe MS 557 : Inventory of the royal wardrobe, 1600 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0011]/036-001953372[0005]/040-001953377
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162939607.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1600
- Date Range:
- 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper, parchment.
Dimensions: 425 x 280 mm.
Foliation: ff. xxiii + 109.
Binding: Post 1600. British Library.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Simeon Stewart, third baronet (c. 1721-1779): previous owner, his name (f. 3r). Sold May 1779.
Sir John Cullum, sixth baronet (1733-1785): previous owner, his name (f. 3r).
Craven Ord, antiquary and brass-rubber (bap. 1755, d. 1832): previous owner, his name (f. 3r). Sold 1790.
Thomas Astle, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts (1735-1803): previous owner.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, Volume 1: Text (London: British Museum, 1895), pp. 448-49.
Janet Arnold, ed. Queen Elizabeth’s wardrobe unlock’d: the inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes prepared in July 1600, edited from Stowe MS 557 in the British Library, MS LR 2/121 in the Public Record Office, London, and MS V.b.72 in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC (Leeds: Maney, 1988).
A.J. Collins, Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I (London: British Museum, 1955).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)