Lansdowne MS 683

Political register, containing notes, lists, tables and records concerning political and military matters during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Possibly compiled by, or for the use of, a minister of state.

ff. 1r-3r Table of contents. Titled ‘A table of the matters contayned in this booke’.

ff. 4r-4v ‘The names of all the Shires of England and of Wales’.

ff. 5r-5v ‘A note of all the Bishopps of England and how they are to take place eche before and after other’.

ff. 6r-7r ‘The nomber of Churches within every Shire as they are in the Booke of first fruits’.

ff. 8r-10r ‘The valuacion of the severall livings of all the Bishopps in England, with the tenthes that every one of them paieth’.

ff. 11r-12v ‘The valuacion of the severall Deanries in England with the Tenthes that every one of them paieth’.

ff. 13r-14v Table, titled ‘Musters taken Anno Do: 1574 and 1575’.

ff. 15r-16v ‘The names of hir majesty’s Shipps with their burthen, nomber of men, and furniture requisite for the setting for the of the same’.

ff. 17v-19r ‘The nombers of men appointed to be trayned in every Shyre throughout the Realme’.

ff. 20r-20v ‘The charges of Barwick and other holds in the east marches foranemps [i.e. opposite] Scotland’.

f. 21v List of names, titled ‘Founders of Ordinaunce’. Dated January 1576.

ff. 22v-23v ‘The names of the masters that have taken charge in the River of Thames’. Dated February 10 1576.

ff. 24v-27r ‘The names of the forts and Castells alongest the Seacoast withe the names also of the Captaynes that have the charge of them’.

ff. 28r-29v ‘The names of the Custodes Rotulorum in every Shire in Englande and in Wales’.

ff. 30v-31v ‘The names of the Justices of Assise in the counties underwritten’.

ff. 32v-34r ‘The names of the priviledged Townes in England’.

ff. 35r-36r ‘The names of certaine Rebells in the late northern Rebellion that are fledd beyonde the Seas’.

ff. 37r-38v ‘The names of all soche as be certified into the Eschequere to be fugitives over the Sea contrarye to the Statute of Anno 13 Eliz.’ Dated January 29 1576.

ff. 39v-41r ‘The nobilitie of England according to their authorities and degrees’.

ff. 42r-42v ‘The placing of all estates of Nobilitie’.

ff. 43r-43v ‘The placing of great officers according to the Acte of Parliament Anno 21 H. 8.’

ff. 44r-44v ‘The names of the Lordes and others of hir majesty’s privey Counsell’. Dated 10 August 1579.

ff. 45r-45v ‘The names of the Counsellors in the Northe’.

f. 46r ‘A note of soche as have bene Lieutenaunts of the Garter since hir majesty’s reigne’.

ff. 47r-47v ‘The names of the Counsellors in the marches of Wales’.

ff. 48r-49r ‘Noblemen and gentelmen that have served and are fitt to be employed in forrein messages’.

ff. 50r-51r ‘The names of sondry gentelmen and Captaynes for the Sea’.

ff. 52r-53r ‘The names of soche noblemen and gentelmen as have served in the warres’.

f. 54r ‘Captaines having charge in Barwick, Captaines fitt to have charge, and Captaines in pencion there’.

f. 54v ‘Lieutenaunts in charge and in pencion there’.

f. 55r ‘Captaines in Ireland that have charge and are fitt to have charge’.

f. 56r ‘Captaines fitt for charge in divers Countreis’.

ff. 57r-57v ‘Men of service fitt for charge out of pay in England some serving in forrein nations’.

ff. 58v-60r ‘The names of the Commissioners concerning the restrainte of Corne and grayne’.

ff. 61v-63v ‘The names of sondry the wisest and best merchaunts in london to deale in the weightiest causes of the Citie as occasion is offred’.

ff. 64v-68r ‘The names of certayne lawiers in every of the foure Innes of Courte’. Dated June 1576. With notes on their characters, wealth, and ability.

ff. 69r-70r ‘The names of hir majesty’s Comissioners for thexecucion of certayne eccliasticall Statues’.

ff. 71r-78v ‘The names of the noble men and principall gent. in every Countie’. Dated May 2 1579.

f. 79v Note: ‘Leone lampugnano in Milano nela contrata di rouello’.

f. 80v Table, titled ‘To know the daie of the new Moone in anie moneth passed, or anie Moneth to come’. With an example date of 1579. Parchment.