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Harley Roll V 18
- Record Id:
- 040-003451885
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404892
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100078779306.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162924109.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley Roll V 18
- Title:
- Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1562
- Scope & Content:
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Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1562.
On the recto is a list of recipients of gifts from the Queen, which were all of plate, with a note of the weight, distributed to each and the name of its maker.
Also on the recto, there follows a list of gifts 'delyverid at sundry times', largely of plate, to foreign envoys and as christening presents, 3 April 1561-1 May 1562. The christening gifts include at the baptisms of children of Sir William Cecil, Thomas Sackville and 'Ipolitan the Tartarian' (Ipolyta the Tartarian, d. 1576, one of Elizabeth's gentlewomen who was a Tartar slave who had been given her by the traveller in Muscovite territories Anthony Jenkinson). Amongst the plate to envoys was a golden chain to the French ambassador, two collars 'of Esses of gold' and two silver gilt to Irish lords ('Lorde Oraily', Malachias O'Reilly, Chief of O'Reilly, and 'Lorde Odonerle', Calvagh O'Donnell, Lord O'Donnell and Chief of Tyrconnel).
The verso contains a list of donors, corresponding to the list of recipients on the recto, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal. The gifts include, from the painter, sculptor and miniature painter Nicholas Belin de Modena, 'the half picture of Patche King henry the eightes foole'.
The roll is signed in four places by the Queen and in two by John Astley, Master and Treasurer of the Queen's jewels; the roll was examined (and signed twice by) Edmund Pigeon, Yeoman of the Jewels and Plate.
Similar rolls for the years 9, 18, 26, 30 and 31 Elizabeth I (1567, 1576, 1584, 1588, 1589) are now Add MSS 9772, 4827, Egerton MS 3052, Add MS 8159, and Lansdowne Roll 17 respectively.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002404892
040-003451885 - Is part of:
- Harley Roll : Harley Rolls
Harley Roll V 18 : Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1562 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002404892[0013]/040-003451885
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley Roll
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162924109.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1562
- End Date:
- 1562
- Date Range:
- 1562
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 3655mm x 415mm.
Script: late 16th-century secretary hand.
5 membranes sewn together into one roll.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- 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. 249.
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. 55-72.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)