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Add MS 22924
- Record Id:
- 040-002096874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096821
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000122.0x000120
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164916043.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22924
- Title:
- Household accounts of Queen Elizabeth I, Michaelmas 1590-Michaelmas 1592
- Scope & Content:
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Household accounts of Queen Elizabeth I, Michaelmas Term, 1590-Michaelmas Term, 1592. The accounts containing payments made to members of the royal establishment, judges, pensioners and others, with the signatures of the recipients or their attorneys in the margin. Their range included musicians, stable grooms and the tuner of the virginals, but also Lord Burghley, Lord Hunsdon and Sir John Hawkins. Francis Palgrave (1788-1861), archivist and historian, considered that the volume was probably 'the Waste Book of the Treasurer of the Privy Chamber' (f. 1r).
Ff. 69 and 70 are insertions.
George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers, recalled that the manuscript had been in his family since an ancestor had been Chancellor of the Exchequer under Elizabeth I and James I. Perhaps a more likely family member is William Pitt (c. 1559-1636), recipient of the letter at f. 69r, and Deputy Teller of the Exchequer, 1586-c. 1613 (History of Parliament: The Commons, 1604-1629, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pitt-william-1559-1636 [accessed 28 March 2019].
f. 1r: Note on the custodial history of the manuscript by the antiquary Dawson Turner, quoting from the letters of his kinsman, Francis Palgrave, archivist.
ff.2r-68v: The accounts. In Latin. Payments of fees to individuals.
f. 69r: Note of payments from Norfolk, Hampshire and Wiltshire. 33 and 34 Elizabeth (i.e 17 Nov 1590-16 Nov 1592).
f. 69r: Letter from Richard West to Mr William Pytt, Barbycan, 16 Mar 1593. Family and parliamentary gossip. Pytt may be the Elizabethan Exchequer official, later MP for Wareham, William Pitt. Pitt had Dorset connections; West, from his letter, was a man with Dorset and Wiltshire connections. In English.
ff. 70r-v: Summary note of revenue, n.d. This includes receipts from lay and clerical subsidies and expenditure on fees and warrants. In English and Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096821
040-002096874 - Is part of:
- Add MS 22878-23125 : Turner Manuscripts
Add MS 22924 : Household accounts of Queen Elizabeth I, Michaelmas 1590-Michaelmas 1592 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002096821[0030]/040-002096874
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 22878-23125
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164916043.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1590
- End Date:
- 1830
- Date Range:
- 1590-1830
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 340mm x 215mm (writing area: 280mm x 165mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 70 + 18* + 31* + 36* +53* + 65* (plus 5 modern flyleaves at the beginning and 1 contemporary and 4 modern flyleaves at the back).
Script: Late 16th-century secretary hand.
Binding: Post-1600. Red morocco leather (between 1830 and 1858).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (1751-1828). He believed the manuscript had been in his family since an ancestor had been Chancellor of the Exchequer under Elizabeth I and James I (a more likely source is possibly William Pitt, Deputy Teller of the Exchequer, 1586-c. 1613). Rivers left the volume to his steward's father.
Francis Palgrave (1788-1861), archivist, who as a lawyer working on the estate of the late Lord Rivers was given it by Rivers's steward. In 1830 Palgrave gave it to his kinsman Dawson Turner.
Dawson Turner (1775-1858), antiquary.
Purchased by the British Museum at the sale of the manuscripts of Dawson Turner, 7 June 1859 (Lot 160).
- Former Internal References:
- Plut. CLVII.I
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years MDCCCLIV-MDCCCLX: Add. MS. 19,720-24.026 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 787.
Catalogue of the Manuscript Library of Dawson Turner ... Comprising ... upwards of forty thousand autograph letters, etc., 2 vols (1859), I, p. 66.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)