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Stowe MS 559
- Record Id:
- 040-001953379
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00005d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163611132.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 559
- Title:
- Collections relating to Crown regalia and jewels
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–84v: A volume of collections relating to the Crown regalia and jewels, annotated throughout by the antiquarian Thomas Astle (1735–1803).
ff. 1r–54v: Extracts from the Patent Rolls, Wardrobe Accompts, and other public records, from the reigns of John to Henry VI, including (ff. 11r–23v) a list of the jewels belonging to the shrine of St Edward the Confessor at Westminster, 51 Henry III [1267]. ff. 39r–54v is a printed document in French listing Henry V’s jewels, from the parliament roll of the 2nd year of Henry VI’s reign (1423–4).
ff. 55r–68r: Inventory of ‘certeyn Iuells of sundry natures giuen by the Kinges Maiestie vnto Quene katheryne [Howard] his moost derest wif at the tyme of the solempnisation of theire graces marriage: and delyuered in charge by his graces commaundement by Nicholas Bristowe his highnes clercke to Anne Herbert sauefly to kepe the same: mense Iulii anno regni dicti domini Regis xxxiido [1540].’ Written and signed by Nicholas Bristow. With contemporary marginal notes concerning the disposal of some of the items, and notes by Astle, who was given the volume by the Reverend Michael Lort in 1772.
ff. 69r, 70r–78v: An inventory of jewels, etc., copied from a document which ‘seems to have been written in the time of Queen Elizabeth.’
ff. 79r–80v: A description of Rymer’s collections, annotated by Thomas Astle.
f. 81r: Note about an inventory of jewels owned by a queen, perhaps Mary II, bought by Lord Peterborough.
f. 82r: Printed advertisement, ‘A list of his Majesty's Regalia, besides plate and other rich things, at the Jewel-House in the Tower of London’, from the reign of William III.
ff. 83r–84v: Memorial in French concerning the jewels of Mary II, bought after her accession, claimed by the English government as belonging to the Crown, c. 1715.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953372
040-001953379 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 553-567 : CLASS XI.ROYAL HOUSEHOLD, WARDROBE ACCOMPTS, INVENTORIES,ETC.
Stowe MS 559 : Collections relating to Crown regalia and jewels - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0011]/036-001953372[0007]/040-001953379
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100163611132.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 350 x 290 mm.
Foliation: ff. 84 + 5 (endleaves).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Reverend Michael Lort, DD (d. 1790): inventory of Katherine Howard's jewels (note from Thomas Astle on f. 55r).
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), from 1772 (note on f. 55r).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham.
Purchased from the 5th Earl of Ashburnham by the British Museum in 1883, together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, p. 450.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)