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Harley MS 1644
- Record Id:
- 040-002047474
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047474
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000097
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163020171.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1644
- Title:
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Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582, with the Queen's New Year cash payments, 1582
- Scope & Content:
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These are the accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1585) as Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber for the year Michaelmas 23 Elizabeth-Michaelmas 24 Elizabeth (i.e 29 Sep 1581-29 Sep 1582). A rich source for the array of officers paid by Heneage for the necessary functioning of the royal household, and incidentally - as many recipients have to sign the accounts - for often imaginative marks and signatures.
Contents:
f. 1r: Jottings at the foot of the page: receipts from Mr Horsey.
ff. 2r-4v: Receipts, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582: "The whole Secreytes of all suche sommes of money as Sr Thomas Heneage knight Thr[easu]rer of Her Mates Chamberhath received within his office".
ff. 4r-218v: Payments made by Sir Thomas Heneage as Treasurer to the Queen's Chamber in the year Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582. Included are:
ff. 4r-5v: The Queen's alms.
f. 6r: Offerings and washings of ornaments of the Closet.
ff. 7r-11r: The Queen New Year Gifts, 1 Jan 1581 ("Rewardes uponNewyes day").
f. 12r: Gifts ("Rewards") normally paid at Easter.
f. 13r: Largesse to heralds.
ff. 14r-21v: Payments to musicians (trumpeters, violins, flutes, sackbuts, and a group simply called "musicians"). These include Nicholas Lanier, Augustine Bassano and Lodovico Bassano.
ff. 22r-23r: Payments to the footmen.
ff. 24r-v: "Therle Leycester for thallowance of fower boyes to be browght up under the fowre ryders in her Mates stables". the payments are made to the four boys - or rather five, as one is replaced - who are Leicester's nominees.
f. 25r: Payments to the Surveyor of the Queen's Highways.
ff.26r-29r: Payments to the Falconers.
ff. 30r-36r: Payments to those involved in hunting; "The Huntes", "The Harryers", "The Leashe", "Officers of the Crosbowes" and "Officers of the Toyles": all headed (f. 30r) by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Master of the Buckhounds.
f. 37r: Payments to the Keeper of the "Garderobe of Robes" in the Tower of London.
f. 38r: Payments to the Keepers of Waltham Forest.
f. 39r: Payments to Keepers of the Bears and Mastiffs.
f. 40r: Payments to the Keeper of St James's Garden.
ff. 41r-43r: Payments to Officers of the Jewel House.
ff. 44r-45r: Payments to apothecaries.
ff. 46r-50v; Payments to extraordinary Yeomen of the Guard.
ff. 51r-59r: Payments to watermen.
ff. 60r-v: Payments to artificers and mariners.
f. 61r: Payments to the Ratcatcher and the Moletaker.
ff. 62r-65r: Annuities. These are headed by £40 to Sir Francis Knollys, Teasurer of the Royal Household, and include the £26 13s. 4d to the calligrapher and writer Petruccio Ubaldini.
ff. 66r-72r; "Apparalinge and makeinge redie" places for the Queen to visit or stay at.
ff. 73r-89r: Money paid out upon Councillors' warrants (e.g., journeying on missions, carrying up posts or prisoners)
f. 90r: "Christeninges": Payments to two gentlemen ushers for their attendance at particular christenings and for mpayments at christenings to the baby's nurse and midwife.
ff. 91r-92r: Gardening charges.
ff. 93r-104r: Riding charges (i.e. messengers).
f. 105r: Payments to the Treasurer of the Chamber; Sir Thomas Heneage, paid for himself and his two clerks £153. 6s. 8d.
f. 106r: Payment to the Queen's Master Fletcher.
ff. 107r-205r: Wages of the ordinary Yeoman of the Guard.
ff. 206r-218v: Pensions of Yeomen of the Guard.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047474 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1644 : Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582, with the Queen's New Year… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1645]/040-002047474
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163020171.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1581
- End Date:
- 1582
- Date Range:
- 1581-1582
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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Materials: Paper
Dimensions: 420mm x 275mm (writing area: 350mm x 170mm)
Foliation: ff. 218 (plus two modern flyleaves at the front and one contemporary and two moden flyleaves at the back).
Script: Late 16th-century secretary hand.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Owned by Henry Worsley (d. 1747), envoy to Portugal (1714) and Governor of Barbados (1721) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 361), from whom it came to the Harley Collection.
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1808), vol. 2, p. 166.
The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603, ed. by Jane A. Lawson, Records of Social and Economic History, Vol. 51 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013), esp. pp. 322-27 (transcription of New Year's payments, ff. 7r-11r in this manuscript).
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani : a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 399.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)