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Harley MS 4898

Record Id:

040-002050742

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050742

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001a1

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100163260804.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4898

Title:

Inventory of goods owned by King Charles I, sold 1649-1652

Scope & Content:

Inventory of household goods, jewels, plate, and paintings owned by King Charles I and sold by order of the State between 1649 and 1652. With descriptions of items, places, valuations, and buyers. 18th century copy.

f. 1r Title page: ‘An Inventory of The Household Goods, Jewells Plate &c, Belonging to the Late King. Sold by Order of the Councill of State, From the Several places, and Palaces, following […] With the Severall Contracts made by the Contracters for Sale of the Said Goods &c. From the Year 1649, To the Year 1652.’ Places listed are: ‘The Tower Jewell House, Somersett house, Whitehall, Greenwich, Wimbleton, Oatlands, Windsor, Hampton Court, Richmond, Sion house, St. James’s, and Severall other places’.

ff. 2r-18r Contents pages, by place.

ff. 19v-40r Inventory of plate and other goods from the Tower Jewel House, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 40v-43r Inventory of regalia from Westminster, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 44r-80r Inventory of household goods from Somerset House, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 81r-96v Inventory of paintings from Greenwich and Wimbledon, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 97r-101v Inventory of paintings from Whitehall, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 102r-104r Inventory of paintings from Nonsuch, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 104v-115v Inventory of paintings and household goods from Oatlands, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 116r-119v Inventory of household goods from Windsor, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 120r-121r Inventory of furniture from Wimbledon, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 121v-128r Inventory of paintings from St James’s Palace, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 128v-137v Inventory of paintings from Whitehall, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 138r-142v Inventory of paintings from Somerset House, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 143r-180v Inventory of tapestries, carpets, household goods, furniture, paintings and other items from Hampton Court, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 181r-186r Inventory of carpets, household goods, furniture and other items from Richmond, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 186v-187r Inventory of carpets and household goods from Sion House, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 188r-194r Inventory of household goods and other items from the Parliament House, and with various people, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 194v-212v Inventory of household goods and furniture from Whitehall, and with various people, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 213r-235r Inventory of household goods, brass, carpets, furniture and other items from St James’s Palace, and with various people, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 235v-240v Inventory of furniture, clocks, carpets and household goods from Whitehall, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 241r-245v Inventory of tapestries, carpets, furniture and household goods from Theobalds, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 246r-255v Inventory of tapestries, carpets, furniture and household goods from Whitehall, and with various people, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 256r-262r Inventory of tapestries, carpets, furniture, household goods and other items from Greenwich, Oatlands, and the Tower, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 262v-280v Inventory of paintings from St James’s Palace, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 281r-284v Inventory of various goods belonging to the late King, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 285r-293r Inventory of statues at Somerset House and Whitehall.

ff. 293v-310v Inventory of statues from Greenwich.

ff. 311r-316v Inventory of the Armory at St James’s Palace.

ff. 317r-319r Inventory of paintings and furniture from Wimbledon, and the King’s barges, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 319v-322v Inventory of tapestries, carpets, furniture and household goods from Carisbrooke Castle, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 323r-334v Inventory of tapestries, carpets, furniture and household goods from Ludlow Castle, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 335r-341v Inventory of goods at Toppisham, Bewdley House, Kenilworth Castle, Holdenbie House, Woodstock, and in the custody of various people, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 342r-351v Inventory of goods from the chapel in Somerset House, and with various people, with descriptions and valuations.

ff. 352r-369v Records of payments made for the late King’s goods.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050742

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4898 : Inventory of goods owned by King Charles I, sold 1649-1652

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4898]/040-002050742

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume.

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

18th century

Era:

Place of Origin:

England.

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper. Watermark of 1733 (Churchill no. 403).

Dimensions: 380 x 265mm.

Foliation: ff. viii + 369.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.

Script: Italic.

Custodial History:

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.

Information About Copies:

BL Harley MS 7352.

V&A National Art Library MS 86.GG.12.

V&A National Art Library MS 86.JJ.1.

National Archives LR2/124.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1808), vol. 3, p. 232-3.

Jerry Brotton, The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (London: Macmillan, 2006).

W.A. Churchill, Watermarks in paper in Holland, England, France, in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and their Interconnection (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1935), no. 406.

Arthur MacGregor, ed. The Late King’s Goods: Collections, Possessions and Patronage in the Light of the Commonwealth Sale Inventories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

M.T.W. Payne, ‘An inventory of Queen Anne of Denmark’s “ornaments, furniture, householde stuffe, and other parcels” at Denmark House’, Journal of the History of Collections, 13, 1 (2001), pp. 23-44.

Claude Philips, The Picture Gallery of Charles I (London: Seeley and Company, 1896).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1600-1649