Add MS 78184

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XVII. Miscellaneous papers of Sir Richard Browne, M.P., relating to the royal household, commerce, etc.; 1553-1601. Partly copies.

ff. 65.

1. Four documents rel. to the coronation feast of Queen Mary, 1 Oct. 1553. Docketed by Evelyn as part of ‘Bundle .I. Coronat Feasts &c / Q: Mary / Equipage of Stable / Q: Eliz: / &c:’. As follows: (a) ‘A proporcion for Spice [etc.] at the Coronation of Queene Marye at Westminster the firste daye of October in the fyrste yeare of her Reagne in the yeare of our Lord god 1553’. Tall oblong gathering measuring 407 x 157 mm.; - (b) ‘Roste att the Coronacion’ (docket), beginning with meats ‘For the Quen the Bushopp & the La: Elizabeth’; - (c) ‘A Breviat of the seuerall messes of meate served at the Coronacion of Quene Mary’ (docket). 406 x 305 mm; - (d) Coloured plan of the tables used at the ‘Coronacions feaste’ (docket). 410 x 267 mm.

2. Order of procession; n.d. Headed, ‘The followinge are to resorte to the standarde of the lyone by the conducke in the yarde next the new buildinges to Lancaster & Windsor [i.e. Heralds]’. ff. 2.

3. Royal firework display: ‘A discryption of the severall Fyre warkes invented and wrought by her matis Gonners and what is invented to bee performed (to the vewe) in euery of them’; n.d., temp. Eliz. I.

4. Bill of fare when Elizabeth I feasted the Italian and Muscovite ambassadors on Twelfth Day (6 Jan.) 1601. Paper: ff. 2. Docketed in a contemporary hand ‘Italion Duke Imbassit Musk the Q dyet abrade xij^f daye 1600 [i.e. 1601]’ and by Evelyn ‘Bill of Fare when the Queen Eliz Entertained the Duke of Italy & Ambassr of Muscovy’. Formerly Evelyn MS 314.

5. Comparison of the expenses for provisions in ‘November last Anno 35 [1592 or 1593] with those in 32 Eliz. I [1589 or 1590]; circa 1593. 490 x 360mm.

6. ‘A note of all suche somes of money as are owinge to her highness Subiects for provisions taken for the...housholde, in the tyme of Gregorie Lovell Late Cofferer...’, in 24-37 Eliz. I [circa 1581-1595]. ‘And also more to be Answeared by Sr Christopher Blunte (d. 1601) for sales due by the Earle of Lecester’ (d. 1588).

7. Document rel. to lease of post fines due to Eliz.; n.d.

8. ‘James Kinge his generall pardon at the Coronation’ for treasons, etc., committed before 20 March 1602/3. Abstract, in English, of the Latin original; see Rymer’s Foedera, II:2, 85-87.

9. Answer of Eliz. I to the Lords and Commons relating to their petition for her to marry; [10] Feb. 1559 [see Commons Journals., i. 54]. Text varies from that printed in J. E. Neale, Elizabeth I and her Parliaments 1559-1581 (1953), pp. 48-50. Contemporary copy.

10. Miscellaneous documents relating to trade, viz.: (a) Proposal rel. to a royal commission requiring the buyers and sellers of tin from the mines in Cornwall to supply the Queen’s pewterer at fixed prices twice yearly; n.d. Docketed ‘Alderman Hatcher for tynne’; - (b) Petition of William Cotton, ‘Esquyer’, to Elizabeth I, on account of the ransom paid by him while ‘wrongfullye deteined’ in France, to have a licence under the Great Seal for importation of so many [blank] tuns of wines, without charge of customs, for two years; n.d., bef. 1603. Draft, on vellum; - (c) Petition for letters patent to remedy the dearth of corn giving ‘Reasons to be alleged what is the greatest cause of the dearthe & scarsitie’; temp. Eliz. I; - (d) Letters patent granted to the Company of Vinteners; 7 Eliz. I [1564-1565]. Docketed ‘Vynteners’. Vellum. 384 x 260 mm (irregular); - (e) Summary of the statutes of 5 Eliz. I [1562-1563], cap. 4, rel. to tradesmen and artificers. Docketed ‘for Apprentyces / Abstract of the statutes / worthy the noting’. fols. 2. 433 x 316 mm.; - (f) Financial estimate for cost of seven men and 4 deputies travelling for four years throughout England and Wales to enroll [?4000] apprentices annually; circa late 16^th-cent.; - (g) ‘A brief collection and discourse of ye Lawes of ye realme touching Victualls and Victualers ...’ (docket), n.d; - (h) Petition of [the Company of Dyers] for appointment of a searcher for cloths dyed with logwood or blockwod, as prohibited by a statute of 23 Eliz. I [1580-1581], and mentioning letters patents granted to Sir George Delves and William Fitzwilliam; n.d.

11. Documents relating partly to Browne’s period in the Low Countries; circa 1586-1587. See also Add. MS 78172 above. Viz: (a) ‘Les noms des cappitanes qui sont au payement des Estates qui ont receu armes et aultres fournitures hors l’armerie de son Ex^ce’ (i.e. Leicester); circa 1586-1588; - (b) Browne’s account for victualling captains in the Low Countries; n.d., aft. Nov. 1592; - (c) Petition of Browne to Queen Elizabeth seeking the reversion of the manor of `Castle Brente, co. Somerset, in recompense for victuals provided to the troops in the Low Countries in the time of the Earl of Leicester; n.d. [circa 1588-1603]. Copy. ff. 2; - (d) Lord Treasurer Burghley: Letter to the Master of the [---] rel. to a petition of Browne on a suit between him and certain ‘Hollanders’; 23 Nov. 1591. Copy. With note at foot ‘procured by Rich Browns Creditors’; - (e) Warrant by the Lord Treasurer to [Mr Fulke], Master of the Household, authorising the delivery to Browne of three hundred pounds from the royal coffers, in consideration of his services; 28 Mar. 1602/3. Drafts, and copy. ff. 4.

12. Legal opinion rel. to the tenancy of lands in and about London, etc., said to be granted on 29 Aug. 36 Hen. VIII [1544] to Roger (d. 1582) and his brother Robert Taverner [poss. servant and sub-tenant of the Earl of Leicester, Mich. 1584; see Inq. p.m. Norfolk 16 Jas. I (1618-9)]; n.d., [before 1582]. For the original grants, dated July 1544, see Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, vol. XIX, pt. 1, no. 1035 (68, 147). Docketed ‘Lewes landes’ [poss. Rutherick Lewes, yeoman usher to Leicester by Mich. 1584].

13. Bond from Christopher Blaxton of Isted, co. Sussex, to William Farnecombe of Rodmell in one quarter of wheat and twelve bushells of barley; 2 Feb. 1601. Mark of Blaxton, but lacking names of witnesses. Docketed ‘fa[?rencom] bond’.

14. Law case ‘touching the Church of Gloucester’ in its attempt to recover a tenement, etc., occupied by the widow of Henry Martin for non-payment of rent; n.d., [aft. 1565].