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Harley MS 1231

Record Id:

040-002047060

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047060

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1231

Title:

A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other arrangements made following his death

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6r: A copy of the testament of John Rudston (b. 1480, d. 1531), Lord Mayor of London in 1528-1529, dated 1530.

ff. 7v-13v: The ‘bying of pewkes and blakes Clothes for gownes whiche were gevyn And bequethede be Sir John Rudstone late knyght And Alderman of London whiche disceased from thys transutory lyfe the xxiij the daye of Auguste Anno Dicto [1531]’.

ff. 14r-16r: The ‘blake ffreise that was bowght in bartylmewe ffeyre for to make gownes for Torche berers accordyng to the wylle of Sir John Rudestone disceased’.

ff. 14v-18v: The ‘Costes and Charges done at the bewryall of Sir John Rudstone late mayer and Alderman of London the xxvijth daye of August in the yere above said at the drapers hall for the Companye of the drapers where the mayer shrevys and serten Aldermen were there at tthe said potacyon and dyner'.

ff. 19r-19v: The ‘Costes done at the mownetheys mynde begynnyng the xix daye of september’.

f. 20v: The ‘partyculers that were bequethed be the wyll whiche be paid’.

ff. 21v-22r: The ‘payment of money every sunday to poore ffolke in sainte mychelles parishe’.

f. 23v: The ‘partyculers of dettes that Sir John Rudstone did owe that be paid at thys be xxijth of september’.

ff. 24r-41r: The ‘Inventory off all the goodes, catalles, stoffe, wares, merchandyses, plate, jowelles and ustyllmenttes of Sir John Rudstone knyght, late alderman of London, praysed by Nycholas Ruttland Hewe Welche and Thomas Emery Citezens, off London, the xvij^th day off January in the yere of owr lord god m^l v^c xxxj^ti and the xxiij^ti yere of the reigne off kyng henry the viij^th’.

ff. 41r-42r: The portions for John Rudston’s children.

f. 43v: ‘Parcelles of plate and readye money delyvered xxiiijth day of November anno 1538 by Nicholas Rudstone Esquyar unto Sir Edwarde Wotton knight to thuse of the fyve Orphans of Sir John Rudstone knight deceased extendyng in all to the Somme of one hundred pound sterlyng’.

ff. 43v-44r: An agreement between the Edward Wotton and Nicholas Rudstone regarding a payment of Ursula, wife of Edward Wotton and widow of John Rudstone, to Nicholas Rudstone, dated 24 November 1538 [signed by Nicholas Rudston and Edward Wotton].

ff. 45r-46v: Accounts of legacies bequeathed by John Rudston.

ff. 47r-47v: ‘Parsell of the praysed goodes sold and delyveryd to Mr Nycholas Rudstone’.

ff. 48v-52v: A ‘breeff Remembraunce of the partyculers off suche evydences and wrytynges as Nicholas Rudstone Esquyre one of thexecutors of the testament of Sir John Rudstone knight deceased in the xiijth day of may in the yere of our lord god m^lv^c xxxiij and in the xxvj^th yere of kyng Henry the viij^th did Receyve of Sir Edward Wotton knight and dame ursula his wife one other of thexecutors of the said testament to be kept by the said Nicholas to thuse and behooff of marten Hillyard Esquyre and Eme his wife one of the doughters of the seid Sir John Rudstone accordyng to a bareyn made bytwene the same Sir John Rudstone’ [signed by Nicholas Rudston throughout].

Decoration:

1 large calligraphically decorated initial in brown ink featuring an anthropomorphic face (f. 24r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047060

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1231 : A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1231]/040-002047060

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1530

End Date:

1539

Date Range:

1530s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 52 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 13 and f. 14; f. 20 and f. 21; f. 44 and f. 45; 2 between f. 23 and f. 24; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 16 February 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Nicholas Rudston, family of Sir John Rudston [Rudstone] (b. 1480, d. 1531): his signatures on ff. 44r, 48v-52v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 290).

Kennett White (b. 1600, d. 1728), Dean of Peterborough (1708-1718); Bishop of Peterborough (1718-1728), owned in or before 1718: according to Humfrey Wanley’s note on f. [iv]recto; ‘Mr Dean of Peterburgh’; and his catalogue record in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 614: ‘A paper Book in fol. given by the Reverend Dr. White Kennett, now Dean of Peterborough’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 209).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 614-15.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 392.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England