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Harley MS 1639
- Record Id:
- 040-002047469
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047469
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000092
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1639
- Title:
- Royal Navy Victualling Office accounts
- Scope & Content:
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Royal Navy victualling accounts, for ships both in harbour and on the Narrow Seas, and for extraordinary sea-victualling, under Marmaduke Darrell, Surveyor General of the Victuals for Sea Causes, 1 January 1602 to 31 December 1603. All subscribed by Sir Henry Palmer and Sir John Trevor.
Includes also:
f. 40: On surplus victuals:
- Letter from the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Admiral to the officers of the Navy, instructing them to view and sell victuals bought for the supply of the Fleet bound south under Sir Richard Leveson and then countermanded. Dated 4 June 1603.
- Letter from the Lord Treasurer, Lord Admiral, and Lord Cecil, Principal Secretary to the King, to the officers of the Navy, prescribing a method of obliging the purchase of the victuals.
- Account of the proceeding on the last letter.
f. 42: Original warrant (under the signet and sign manual) of King James I to the Auditor of the Imprest concerning debts owed by pursers for wasting ships’ victuals on coronation celebrations. 18 June 1603.
f. 46: Account of money borrowed from the Royal Treasury by Sir Marmaduke Darrell and Thomas Bludder, Surveyors of Marine Victuals, 1603. On a parchment folio, formerly loose in the volume. Headed ‘Denarij prestiti extra Receptum Scaccarij Domini Regis, Marmaduco Darrell et Thomae Bladder Mil Supervisoribus Generalibus ad Victualacionem Navium sue Majestatis’. Attested by the hand of Sir Vincent Skynner.
ff. 47-56: Original book recording delivery of victuals to the ships, 11 March 1602/3 to end June 1603, how much used or returned, etc. With original certificates of Sir Thomas Bludder, Sir Henry Palmer and Sir John Trevor, Mr Auditor Goston and Thomas, Earl of Dorset, Lord Treasurer of England.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047469", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1639: Royal Navy Victualling Office accounts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047469 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1639 : Royal Navy Victualling Office accounts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1640]/040-002047469
- 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:
- 1603
- End Date:
- 1603
- Date Range:
- 1603
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 440 x 330 mm.
Foliation: 1-18, 18*, 19-56 folios (total 57 folios).
Binding: British Museum in-house binding, 1966.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
Former owner: Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbados (d. 1747) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 360).
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1639.
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. 360.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)