Add MS 78170

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. III. Accounts of Benjamin Gonson, the elder for works at Deptford and Woolwich; 31 Sept.-31 Dec. 1563, with additions 1564-1565. Signed on each page by William Holstock, Comptroller of the Navy and Surveyor of Victuals at Deptford, and William Wynter (kt. 1573), Surveyor of the Ships and Master of the Ordnance of the Navy. These include payments relating to ‘the new makeing of her graces new shippe’, apparently the ‘White Bear’. Occasional marginal notes in several hands, of which the main one also occurs in 78169 above, include records of payments made from 11 March 1564 to 21 Aug. 1565. At the foot of each page is a note of audit in Arabic numerals. At the end is a similar leaf of accounts for Woolwich for the period 1 Jan.-31 Mar. 1563. Formerly Evelyn MS 69.

ff. 22. Partly sewn gatherings, now imperfect. Modern numbering in pencil at head of f. 5 runs ‘MS. 2. 63 (2)’, with ‘100’ and ‘68’ added within circles. 404 x 286 mm.