Add MS 78172

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 55). Miscellaneous papers and accounts mostly relating to military and household duties and mercantile ventures of Leicester; 1565-1586.

1. ff. 1-4. New Year's gifts received by and presented to Leicester; 1564. Included are jewels, plate and household stuff, clothes and horses, all listed with the names of their donors or recipients and their monetary values. The gifts presented to Elizabeth I were ‘A litle puppett, two pendauntes called eare Ringes a diall set w^t Rubies and Diamondes agret Jewell wt a lokinge glasse set wt Diamondes and Rubies’, altogether valued at £322. 6s. In return Leicester received ‘A Carkenet set w^t Diamondes & Rubies A george set w^t Diamondes w^t aperle pendaunt, x dosen of buttons set w^t Diamondes and perle’, valued at £451. Cf. the Queen’s gift roll for 1564, now Folger Library MS [67.1 in De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I, 282]. Docketed in a contemporary hand and by John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 264a.

2. ff. 5-18. Documents relating to Leicester’s activities as Master of the Horse; circa 1565-1570. Viz.: (a). ff. 5-10. ‘A nott of all siche horses as hathe passid by the qwynis magestes passportes & wt other of the onorabyll Conselles Letters as ffoloithe. anno 1565’; circa 1565-1566. The list, which was submitted to Leicester as Master of the Horse, includes names of travellers, many of them Frenchmen, and dates. Several of the entries refer to Anthony Browne, 1^st Viscount Montagu, Dr. Walter Haddon and Sir Nicholas Wotton, who in March-Sept. 1565 and April-July 1566 were at Bruges negotiating the restoration of commercial relations with the Netherlands. The arrangement is not chronological, but a preliminary note in another hand offers to reform the order; the same hand has addressed further memoranda to Leicester at the end (f. 6v). 305 x 210 mm. Formerly Evelyn MS 293; - (b) ff. 11-18. ‘The Copy of a gret Warrant for the stable’; 1 June [1570]; - (c) f. 19. Acknowledgement of receipt by Leicester from John Slyfield, gentleman of the Queen’s stud and race at Castlehay and Hanbury, co. Stafford, of four colts, at Reading; 21 Sept. [1570]. Signed by Slyfield. Papered signet seal.

3. ff. 20-27. Documents relating to Kenilworth: (a) Petition to Leicester from the freeholders, tenants and inhabitants of Killingworth [Kenilworth], seeking relief from the loss of free access to common grazing entailed by the recent erection of a chase and from the threats of the ranger Anthony Dockwra; circa 1571-1580. 425 x 300mm; - (b) ‘A Supplication from the Tenantes of Kenelworth’; [n.d.].

4. ‘Thaccompte of Captayne William Thomas for the xiij^{C li} deliuerid vnto him at utricht to be caried to Berke [Berkel]’; circa July 1586. The money was ‘sent by him to pay the soldiers then remayninge at the Towne of Berke’. Receipts are signed individually by the various soldiers. A note at the end refers to a ‘billet herevnto annexed’ (now wanting) that was ‘receauid by Marshall Conwey the xvjth of Julij 1586...at Berke’. 295 x 200mm.

5. Four documents relating to English affairs in the Low Countries; 1586-1587. See also Add. MS 78184 below. Viz.: (a) ‘The Lyst or Rolle of Englishe Companyes aswell in her Maties as the States pay’ (docket); 23 July 1586; - (b) ‘Money paide out of yor Exencies Treasor by yor Commandment for the seruice in theis Cuntries and to be repaid by the States accordinglie’; 4 Oct. 1586; - (c) ‘In the booke d[elivere]d by the States to Thomas Sherley amongst other thinges it is [?Cout] as followeth’; 1566-22 July [23 Oct.] 1587. Docketed ‘The abstract of those thinges wherewth the States doe chardge his Exen [--] of horse. 22 July 1587’; - (d) ‘Abstract ex libr[o] Hugon Cholmely ar[miger]. pro pecun[ia] deliv[er]at[a]. Johannem Syne pro equitibus’; 16 Sept./Oct. 1567; - (e) ‘[?26 June 1586]. Articles exhibited against the Threr at warres in the Lowe Cuntries / The first Articles’ (docket). Paper headed ‘Some causes for which my Lo: Leicester Dyslyketh with Mr [Richard] hud[dleston] her Maties Treasurer at warres [of] the Lowe Cuntries’; - (f) ‘The Treasoror of the lowe Cuntries answeares to the Articles exhibited agaynst hym’ (docket); date as above.