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- Record Id:
- 040-002025360
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002025355
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001483.0x00015b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162918542.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34320
- Title:
- Household book of Queen Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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Household book of Queen Elizabeth I, with additional material relating to the royal household during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I.
ff. 1r-1v, 154r-154v Binding material: portions of two leaves from a 14th-century parchment manuscript, containing theological matter.
f. 2r Notes, including the name ‘William Cholmeley’.
f. 3v Table of contents.
ff. 4r-6r ‘A calendar for venison’. Statement of the number of deer to be supplied by the royal parks and forests for the household. Followed by a warrant for the same, 24 November [1583].
ff. 6v-8v Recipes for preserves, dressings and jellies.
ff. 9r-11v ‘An ordinance for the christininge off Prince Edwarde at Hampton Cort’. 15 October [1537].
ff. 12r-13v Allowances claimed by the Serjeants of the royal buttery, pantry and larder. [1579-1580].
ff. 14r-14v Warrants for payments of wages. ‘pour lez Buckhoundes’, Greenwich, 23 August [1582], and ‘pour lez harthoundes’, Westminster, 24 August [1582]. French.
ff. 15r-69v Establishment book of King Edward VI, giving a list of all offices under the Crown, with their fees, and in a few cases the names of the holders. c. 1550-1553.
ff. 70r-73v ‘The value of the Archbishopricks in Englande, with the tenthes of the same’. Followed by a list of peers according to their degrees, and a list of ‘Officers of the Counage of Tinne within the Dutchie of Cornewall’.
ff. 74r-77r Accounts of James Woodford, Clerk of the Offices to Queen Elizabeth I. For the year ending 30 September 1583. Latin.
ff. 78r-83v Records of meat served at Christmas [1551]. With an ordinance concerning allowances of drink, followed by an estimate of the yearly household charges of six people.
ff. 84r-98v ‘An ordinaunce for the coronacion of the highe and mighty princes Queene Mary the first’. At Westminster, 1 October 1553. Including names of the household officers appointed for services, with bills of fare.
ff. 99v-100r ‘Thordinarye of the howshold with the allowances of ther wages and Fees of meate’. During the time in which Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was Great Master [1540-1545].
ff. 101r-102r ‘Messes off mean served on St. Georges Eve Supper’ [1584].
ff. 102v-103r Allowances of bread, wine, ale, of the household.
ff. 103v-110r ‘A dyet served to her Majesty at Catledge the 1. Northes in the banqueting hous Tewsday the 2nd of September’ [1578].ff. 111r-114v Prices of meat, fish, and other commodities.
f. 115r ‘A dyet served daly, to the Quenes Majesty, with the charges off brekffast dynner and supper’, 1578.
ff. 115v-127r ‘Fare served to her Majesty and the Commissioners off France in the banqueting-hous at Whitehall’, 25 April [1581]. Followed by other allowances, notes of prices.
f. 128r ‘The tyme off yere ffor service off certaine pooles’. Lists of fish and their seasons.
ff. 128v-132r ‘The prices off poultry stuffe’ [1581-1582]. Followed by ‘provision paide by her Majesty’ [1602-3].
ff. 133r-134v ‘Fees for dyvers offices of the kinges houshold within ther offices of ould antyquety yeuen’.
f. 133v ‘The degrees of Nobilitie’.
ff. 135r-136v ‘Visus expensarum hospicii’, for the year ending 30 September 1584.
ff. 137v-150r Accounts, followed by ‘The ordnance for thofficers of houshold’ [1539-40].
ff. 151r-153v ‘Officers off housholde’, with their fees [1581-1582].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002025355
040-002025360 - Is part of:
- Add MS 34316-34385 : Part of the library of Sir Thomas Phllipps
Add MS 34320 : Household book of Queen Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002025355[0005]/040-002025360
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1301
- End Date:
- 1603
- Date Range:
- 14th century-1603
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper, parchment.
Dimensions: 313 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 154.
Binding: Pre-1600. Vellum.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Cholmeley: owned, c. 1600. His name is on the inside of the rear cover and f. 2r.
Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet (1792–1872), collector of books and manuscripts: his sale, 19-22 June 1893 (lot 197). Phillipps MS 8892.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), pp. 296-97.
Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A. D. 1837 (Middle Hill: privately printed, 1837), p. 141.
A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, Made in Divers Reigns, Society of Antiquaries (London: John Nichols, 1790).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)