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Royal MS 18 C XXI
- Record Id:
- 040-002107547
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00030f
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 18 C XXI
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OFFICIAL RETURNS of the forces of the Navy and Army of England, in view of the threatened invasion by Spain in 1588. Copies. The contents are as follows:-
1. Navy, viz.:-(a) Copy of 'The Lo. Admiralls [Charles Howard Lord Howard of Effingham] commission for returning to the Seas, August, 1588' f. 1;-(b) 'The names of the Officers of the Navy with theire places and fees'. f. 2b;-(c) 'The nomber of Shippes throughout the realme, collected out of the certificate returned Anno 1583, by counties. f. 3;-(d) 'The Nomber of Masters, Mariners, and fishermen, in each county'; 1583- f. 3 b ;-(e) Names of the Queen's ships with tonnage, &c. f. 4;-(f) Rates of Officers' wages, 3 Jan. 1588[9]. f. 4;-(g) Wages of men of all ranks, 'confirmed by Sr Wm, Winter', 12 Mar. 1587[8]. f. 5 b;-(h) Names, tonnage and number of men of all ships 'as well under the Lo. Admirall Sr Francis Drake as others' (cf. a fuller table in Harley MS. 168, f. 176). f. 7 b.
2. Army, viz.:-(a) 'An Abstract of the certificate. . . of the able and trained men in the several counties [of England and Wales] . . . April, Anno 1588' (cf. a fuller abstract in Harley MS. 168, f. 166). f. 11;-(b) Numbers of furnished men in each county, and the armies to which they are assigned. f. 18;-(c) 'Certificates of Horsmen' under counties. f. 19;-(d) 'Names of the Lieutenants [of Counties] and theire Deputies-'. f. 1 b; -(e) 'Nombers of men appointed to be drawne together to make an Army to encounter the Ennemy' (cf. Harley MS. 168, f. 173 b). f. 20.-(f) 'Names of the Officers of the army assembled at Tilbury under the Earl of Leicester, July, 1588'. f. 22;-(g) 'The rates of the entertainments of the Officers of the Army'. f. 22b;-
(h) Commission to [Henry Carey,] Lord Hunsdon, 'to be Generall of the Army appointed for the Defence of her Maties person'. f. 24;-(I) 'The opinion of [Arthur Grey, 14th] Lo. Gray [Grey de Wilton], Sir Jo. Norris and others for the Defence of the Realme against forraigne invasion, Anno 1588'. Copies of this are very common, e.g. Harley MS. 168, f. 110, Egerton MS. 2618, f. 3. f. 25 b; -(k) Proposed constitution of an Army 'for the Defence of hir Maties person', with names of officers, 'numbers of horse and foote offered by the Clergie' and 'by the Noblemen', with 'the allotment of 10,000 appointed to be furnished within the Citty of London'. f. 29.
Paper; ff. 35. Folio. 141/2 in. x 9 in. Late XVI cent. Not in the old catalogues.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107547 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 18 C XXI : OFFICIAL RETURNS of the forces of the Navy and Army of England, in view of the threatened invasion by Spain in 1588. Copies.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1698]/040-002107547
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Era:
- CE
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