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Lansdowne MS 202
- Record Id:
- 040-002073482
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002073482
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001257.0x0000fa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100153853418.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 202
- Title:
- The answer and certificate of Sir Thomas Rowe, knight, Lord Mayor of London, to the Privy Council, of the number of strangers living within the City of London and its liberties
- Scope & Content:
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A survey of immigrants within the City of London and its liberties, made at the instruction of the Privy Council, compiled from the returns of the local officials. Part of the Burghley Papers.
The manuscript is dated 1568 (f.1r). However more precise dating places it after 9 Nov 1568, when Sir Thomas Rowe became Lord Mayor, and 24 Mar 1569, the end of the year in the Julian calendar.
The volume is a fair copy of the returns of immigrants compiled by local officers. The Lord Mayor owned it to be incomplete.
This volume forms one of a number of surveys of the immigrant communities of London conducted in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It falls within a particularly intense period of such monitoring, between one survey at Easter 1567 (British Library, Lansdowne MS 10, ff. 16r-60v) and two in 1571, both now preserved in the National Archives (May 1571: SP 12/84, ff. 1r-91r; November and December 1571, SP 12/82; SP 12/84, ff. 9r-112r). Together these four surveys, with significant differences between them, provide detailed listings of strangers. To these may be added the surviving summary results of a survey conducted by the Bishop of London in late 1571 (Kirk, Returns of Aliens, I.xiii, 377-383). Earlier in 1568, on 30 July the then Lord Mayor, Roger Martyn, had submitted a return to to Sir William Cecil, Principal Secretary of State, of the numbers of strangers who had arrived in the City and its suburbs since the preceding 20 March; on 15 September Francis Walsingham reported to Cecil that he had delivered to the Lord Mayor the latter's instructions that he should make a weekly certificate of all incoming strangers. (The National Archives, SP 12/47, ff. 57r-60v, 72r-73v).
The returns are structured by ward and by parish, and within each parish by individual entries for each household. The household entries generally record the householder's name, occupation, place of birth and legal status (whether a denizen or not), the names of other members of the household and which church they attend. Some entries record whether houses were overcrowded ('pestered' in the rubric at the head of the return) and the names of landlords of such. Each household entry also has a summary of the number of its members and their nationality of origin. At the end of each ward, and at the end of the volume for the whole City and its liberties (ff. 93v-94r) are summary totals of strangers and the church that they attend. The churches named are the French, Dutch and Italian churches, English parish churches and 'no church'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Lansdowne Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002060013
040-002073482 - Is part of:
- Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts
Lansdowne MS 202 : The answer and certificate of Sir Thomas Rowe, knight, Lord Mayor of London, to the Privy Council, of the number of strangers… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002060013[0149]/040-002073482
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100153853418.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1568
- End Date:
- 1569
- Date Range:
- 9 Nov 1568-24 Mar 1569
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 400mm x 270mm (writing area 330mm x 200mm).
Foliation: 94 ff. + ff. 51* + 84* (f. 94 is a modern paper flyleaf, plus two unfoliated modern paper flyleaf and one contemporary flyleaf at the beginning and one unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Late-16th century hand.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Although separated from the main series of papers in the Lansdowne Manuscripts once belonging to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (Lansdowne Mss. 1-122), this volume is undoubtedly part of that series.
The volume passed from Burghley to his son-in-law Sir Michael Hickes, and descended to the latter's great-grandson Sir William Hickes.
From him it came into the hands of the antiquary John Strype, who published extracts from it in Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and other various occurrences in the Church of England, ed. John Strype (London: Edward Symon 1725-1731), IV, ‘A Supplement of Records and Original papers’, pp. 1-6, where he located this manuscript as part of 'Mss. Burghlian'.
At Strype's death in 1737 it was sold to the antiquary James West.
At West's death it was sold to William Petty [formerly Fitzmaurice], second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne.
- Former External References:
- 2511B
74.i
No. 195 - Information About Copies:
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Transcription in Returns of aliens dwelling in the city and suburbs of London from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I, ed. by R. E. G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, volume 10, in 4 parts (Aberdeen:[The University Press], 1900-1908), III, 330-439.
- Publications:
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Returns of aliens dwelling in the city and suburbs of London from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I, ed. by R. E. G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, volume 10, in 4 parts (Aberdeen: [The University Press], 1900-1908)
Andrew Pettegree, Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)