Harley MS 6746

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I.

f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, including for ‘markinge the bookes’, ‘a bagge for the bookes’, and ‘carr of the bookes’.

f. 5r: Copy of an obligation in English and Latin, beginning: ‘The condicion of this obligacion is such that wheras the within bound A. B. the day of the daite herof haith entred in the Quenes Majestie Booke of Custome in her porte of London in a shipp called the Mary Catherine of London wherof is Master under god W. B. laden for Hamborowe the nomber and quantie of 3 sackes of wool’, dated 20 Elizabeth I.

f. 5r: A note: ‘Ed. dowghtie grocer (and coimpany) diserith for their store and provision one longe cloth per licenciam domine Regine to be shipped in the Hopewell of Master John Giles versus Hamborow which is graunted them for store the day and yeare above written’.

f. 5r: A letter, beginning: ‘Mr Grey I pray you permitt A. B. g. to shipp in the martha of le Master John Wilson for Emden’; dated 2 September 1580.

f. 5v: Lists of payments, beginning: ‘Northen dozens doble’.

f. 6r: Memoranda, the first one beginning: ‘Memorandum that every straunger entringe owtward with the Collectour of the Subsidie pa[i]eth to him for Subsidie xijd of every pounde’.

f. 6v: A list of payments, beginning: ‘ffor your owne ffee’.

f. 7r: A letter, addressed ‘To our lovinge frendes the Customers Comptroller and other officers of her Majesties Customehowse of London to whom it appertaynethe and to every of them’; dated 18 March 1581.

f. 7v: Grant to the Earl of Arundel for transporting beer and wool, beginning: ‘Wher her Majestie by her highnes graunted by lettres patentes dated the ixth of octobre in the vijth yeare of her Reign has gyven auctoritie to my very good Lord the Earle of Arondale for certen beare to be transported yearlie during his life by himselfe his factours or assignes not excedinge iiijC tonnes by the yeare without any Custome or imposition’; dated to 1572.

f. 8r: A letter by William Cecil (b. 1520, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, to 'my lovinge frendes the officers of the port of London'; dated 15 January 1589.

ff. 8v-9r: A letter concerning recognizance of the Collector of the Subsidies, who is to appear before the Barons of the Exchequer for stating his accounts and obtaining his discharge.

ff. 10r-10v: Copy of an indenture, beginning: ‘Be it knowen unto all men by these present thate me John Harryson and Eliabethe Harryson his wif otherwise called Elizabeth Marburie by the consent of appoyntmente of Robarte Dowe merchant-taylour and Launcellott Batherst grocer cyttizens of London Overseers of the laste willes and testemente of George Marburie deceased have hadd and receyved of Edmunde Pershalle cittizen and grocer of London the some of tenne poundes of lawfulle monye of England’; dated 1588, followed by a related memorandum.

f. 11r: Memoranda on trading goods, including glass from Burgundy and Normandy, and malt and wheat on a ship from Hartlepool.

f. 11v: A list of payments, entitled: ‘Particuler in Mr Rones office’.

f. 11v: A memorandum dated to 1 July 1572, beginning: ‘at this courte it was ordered that the citizens of the citie of Yorke be from hensfforth discharged for payinge any Towle within the Citie of London accordinge to their charter showed unto this Courte the coppie of which charter is now entred in this Courte’.

f. 11v: A memorandum entitled: ‘Merchantes of the Eastlandes’, beginning: ‘The governour of the merchauntes trading Eastlandes may governe and rule the company for bying and sellinge goodes or commodities’.

f. 12r: A list entitled: 'A note on such benifices or parcells of tithes as are impropriate now in the quens handes', listing parishes and parsonages such as 'Anderbye', 'Bolton', 'Ellerton', 'Suddeswell', 'Barton', Ereholme', 'Midleton', 'Westwitton, 'Bowes, 'ffletham', 'Motherley', 'Sogston', 'Welburye', 'Agfelton'.

f. 12r: A list of payments, beginning: 'Price of tarre at yorke le barrell'.

f. 13r: A table with prices of lead, entitled: ‘A rate of leade’.

f. 13v: A list of payments, including those for the ‘Chamber of yorke’, ‘Weymaster’, ‘Porters’, ‘ffreight from borowbrigge’, ‘ffreigt to Hull’, ‘Charges there’, and ‘ffrom thence to London’.

f. 14r: A copy of an indenture, beginning: ‘This bill made the 12 of October etcaetera witnessith that I Ra. B. of London yeoman for the some of one hundreth Poundes of lawfull inglishe money to me truely paid before thensealinge herof by John Hepworth servant to the worshipful Mr Edward Basshe Esquire have clerly bargained, sold, and delivered unto the said John Hepworthe in opon markett of the Citie of london seaven chams of gold’.

f. 15v: A list of ingredients, entitled: ‘Banketinge stuffe’.

f. 16r: An untitled medicinal recipe, beginning: ‘Take a quarte of endeyne water [and] a quarte of white wyne, and put to this a handfull of eche of theis harbes’.

f. 16v: A list of payments, entitled: ‘Rentes due to my Master at Horsedowne’.

f. 16v: A letter (crossed out), beginning: ‘Sir your [...] which I have found in you to pleasure me causeth me to seke for no other I’.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 16v: A poem: ‘If that in vertue thou take any pains / The paine departeth and vertue remaines / But if thou have pleasure to do that is ill / The pleasure abateth but ill tarrieth still’; added in the 17th century.