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- Record Id:
- 040-002110349
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002110330
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000453.0x000016
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162920038.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 4827
- Title:
- Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Hampton Court, 1 January 1576
- Scope & Content:
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Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Hampton Court, 1 January, 18 Elizabeth I [1576].
The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal, the total of money received being given at the foot as £1032. 16s. 8d. On the verso is a corresponding list of recipients of gifts, which were all of plate, with a note of the weight and type of object distributed to each and the name of its maker, the total being given as 5109 3/8 ounces. There follows a list of christening gifts, presents to foreign envoys (usually gold chains), a gift to a hostess and a wedding gift, 7 April 1575-23 March 1576.
The roll has the Queen's signature in 4 places. It is signed twice by John Astley (or Asteley), Master of the Jewel House and Treasurer of the Queen's Jewels and Plate, with four others: Nicolas Bristow, Clerk of the Jewels, John Pigeon and Stephen Fulwell, Grooms and Yeomen of the Jewels and Plate, and Richard Astley, Groom of the Jewels and Plate.
Similar rolls for the years 4, 9, 26, 30 and 31 Elizabeth I (1562, 1567, 1584, 1588 and 1589) are now Harley Roll V 18, Add MS 9772, Egerton MS 3052, Add MS 8159 and Lansdowne Roll 17, respectively. See also Sloane MS 814, Account of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I between 1572-1587, ff. 12r-13r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002110330
040-002110349 - Is part of:
- Add MS 4811-4827 : POCOCKE COLLECTION
Add MS 4827 : Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Hampton Court, 1 January 1576 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002110330[0015]/040-002110349
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 item
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1576
- End Date:
- 1576
- Date Range:
- 1576
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment roll.
Dimensions: 3910mm x 395mm. 5 membranes of varying length sewn together into one roll.
Script: Late 16th -century secretary hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Pococke (1704-1765), traveller and Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, of Elphin and of Meath.
Bequeathed to the British Museum (handed over on 9 May 1766).
- Former Internal References:
- Pococke Collection vol. 16
- Publications:
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Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I: the Inventory of 1574, ed. by A. Jefferies Collins (London: British Museum, 1955), p. 250.
Felicity Heal, The Power of Gifts: Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603, ed. by Jane A. Lawson, Records of Social and Economic History New series vol. 51 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013). The roll is transcribed at pp. 183-224.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)