Add MS 75307

Althorp Papers. Vol. vii. Analyses and valuations of Northamptonshire, by divisions, hundreds, townships, etc., chiefly for tax assessment purposes, 1593-1640. Copy in more than one clerical hand, [1640s?]. A note on f.1 records that the volume was formerly in possession of Lord Longueville, and was bought in 1784 from the bookseller [Edward?] Yardley by John Coley, the antiquary and record commissioner. Possibly added to the Althorp Papers as a purchase by the 7^th Earl Spencer.

300 x 210 mm. Modern vellum binding.

Contents include:

1. f. 2. Engraved map of Northamptonshire attributed to William Smith, 1602-1603. See Harold Whitaker, A Descriptive List of the Printed Maps of Northamptonshire A.D. 1576-1900, Northamptonshire Record Society, XIV (1947), No. 7, and R.A. Skelton, County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1603, (1970), pp.19-21. The map may not have been part of the volume as originally compiled.

2. ff. 4-6. Rates of towns and pastures in the eastern division towards the provisioning of the royal household; temp. Eliz.

3. ff. 6b-9. Rates of towns and pastures in the eastern division towards the provisioning of the navy; 1595.

4. ff. 10b-25. Rates of towns and pastures in the eastern division towards the provisioning of the royal household; 1610.

5. ff. 25b-27. Contributions of parishes in the eastern division to the third subsidy of Queen Elizabeth, with the names of the commissioners; 1593.

6. ff. 28-53. Assessments of ship money; 1635-1640.

7. ff. 54-63b. Lists of townships with names and owners and symbols indicating enclosures; 1640.

8. ff. 64-72. Names of rectories and vicarages in the diocese of Peterborough with values; [1640?].

Northamptonshire: Estate papers and accounts of the Spencer family rel. to Northamptonshire: 1329-1706.