Add MS 78183

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XVI. Fair copy, with additions and marginal annotations, of 78182 above. A list of ‘The contentes of this Booke [tending to A Compos[ition] added in another hand]’ is copied on the front vellum cover. The first item is headed ‘The Booke of lyuereys made according to the seruice daylie, and as Mr Quarles hath framed the booke of Dyett’. James Quarles (d. 1599) was successively clerk of the royal kitchen and Clerk of the Green Cloth. There follow details of the dishes allowed daily and monthly, the total of provisions consumed in one year, and the names of the counties that compounded, 1564-1590, wholly or in part, for their assessment for provisions. Marginal notes added in another hand include specific allowances made to Robert Devereux, 2^nd Earl of Essex, as Master of the Horse (1587-1601). Formerly Evelyn MS 154.

ff. ii +23. Single sewn gathering with contemporary limp vellum covers secured by leather thongs. Pages ruled in red with compartments. Watermark of bunch of grapes surmounted by ‘4+ / M’, similar to Briquet 13200, dated 1573-1588. Front cover inscribed, apparently in the hand of the copyist of Add. MS 78179 above, with contents-list and with press-marks in John Evelyn’s hand. 416 x 284mm.