Add MS 78185

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XVIII. Establishment-List of the Household of Edward VI; circa July 1552-July 1553. Copy, circa 1572-1576, with additions. The date of the original document is settled by its inclusion of Sir John Gates as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The list incorporates names and salaries of office-holders. Added in an italic hand, apparently before 1576, are notes of six holders of posts in the Court of Augmentations and of grantees of various manors, mostly in co. Essex. These include Bennington [?co. Herts., but cf. Benningtons, co. Essex] and ‘Hallingbury’ [?Little Hallingbourne] which is described as ‘Modo Com: Essex & hered:’, that is, Walter Devereux, 1^st Earl of Essex 1572, who in 1576 bequeathed it to his widow Lettice, later wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Both manors had been confiscated from William Parr, Marquess of Northampton, the grant to whom of Stanstead [Hall in Halsted], on 24 Oct. 1564, is noted here. Also recorded are grants of Kenilworth to Leicester (6 Sept. 1563) and of Copped Hall, near Epping, to Thomas Heneage (3 Aug. 1564). These entries suggest that the manuscript belonged to Leicester, or to Browne who was escheator for Essex in 1569-70. For another list see Stowe MS 571, ff. 1-76v. Formerly Evelyn MS 163.

ff. ii+64. Watermark crowned shield charged with intertwined letters above compartment lettered ‘C DENISE’, similar to Briquet no. 9334 (dated 1572-1578). Limp vellum covers with two leather ties. Front cover inscribed by John Evelyn ‘Number (I) MSS: A Booke of the Fees & Expenses of the Crowne, & officers of State; Kinges Court, House, Castles, Fortresses & other matters relating to the Kingdome in y^e Reigne of Hen: VIII’.