OR2072

Manuscript Book

1590s

From: 1590 To: 1595

Page 1 Title Page:- “A Generall Collection of all the officies in England with thire fees in the Queenes guifte. Also all the officies and fees of her Majesties Courts at Westminster both of Justices and Revenewes. All the offices and fees of her highness most Royal household with other rewards and allowances to the officers theare”. “All the fees and offices Belonging to Captaynes and soldiers havinge charge of her Magesties Bullwarkes Castles and fortresses within the Realme of England.” Page 2 Blank. Page 3-4 Exchequer allowances (lists officers from Lord High Treasurer downwards but only Cecil mentioned by name). Pages 5-7 Survenior of the Queens lands with their fees. (County by County.) Page 7 Duchy of Cornwall Customer of the Haven etc. Sir Walter Rawleighe, Knight. Page 8 Duchy of Lancaster with the fees and allowances (offices listed). Chancellor Sir Thomas Hennage. Pages 9-12 Auditors and Receivers in the court of the Duchy of Lancaster with with their fees and allowances. (Receivers for specified places). Page 13 Court of First Fruits and tenths with fees and allowances (offices listed). Pages14-15 Court of Wards and Liveries with fees and allowances. (offices listed) Master of Wards Sir William Cecil. Pages15-16 High Court of Chancery, officers and ministers of Justice (officers listed). (including Privy Seal) (Lordkeeper Sir Robert Cecil) Pages16-17 Kings Bench. Page 17 Common Place (Pleas) Council of the North. Page 18 Council and other officers in Wales and Marches. Admiralty The Ordinance Page 19 Principality of South Wales Principality of North Wales Page 20 County Palentine of Lancaster (Palatinate) County Palentine of Chester (Palatinate) Justices of Oyer and Terminer. Page 21 Queens Court or household The Armorge (Armoury) Officers at Greenwitch (Greenwich). Pages 21-22 Officers at arms (including Heralds) Page 22 The Mint. Page 22-23 The Works Page 23 The Great Wardrobe Butlerage of England Page 24 The Tents The Revells. Hunting, Harryores (harriers) and harte Houndes. Buck Hounds Otter hounds Page 25 Musicians and Players Surgeons, Phisitians and Astronomers. The Queens Barge and bargemen. Pages 25-26 Artificers Page 26 “Officers and other servants in her Majestie’s household”. The counting howse. Pages 26-27 Lord Chamberlain Page 27 Band of the Pensioners The Guard The Fuel House The Robes The Beds. The Pantry Page 28 The Buttery The Cellar ‘The Ewrte’ The Kitchen Page 29 The Backhouse The Spicery The Pitcher house The Larder The Boiling house ‘The Acatrye’ Page 30 The Poultry The Scalding house The Pastry ‘The Squillerye’ Amner! The Chapel Page 31 The Laundry ‘The Wassrye’ The Woodyard Pages31-32 Master of the Horse (including Earl of Essex) “Tonnes of warre, castells, Bulwarkes and fortresses with the fees and allowances to the captaines, officers and soldiors”. Pages32-33 Kent Page 33 Dover Sussex Pages 33-34 Essex Pages 34-36 Hampshire including ‘the new castle at St. Andrews Point’. New Castle at Portsmouth. Page 36 Isle of Wight. Dorset Page 37 Cornwall York Cumberland Pages 37-38 Northumberland Page 38 Channel Islands Page 38 Berwick Her Majesties houses, Castles, Parkes, Forestes and Chases with the fees and allowances to the keepers and officers there. Page 39 Tower London Page 40 Middlesex Essex Page 41 Hertfordshire Suffolk Norfolk Pages 41-42 Kent Page 42 Surrey Page 43 Warwickshire Leicestershire Herefordshire Pages 43-44 Staffordshire Lincolnshire Page 44 Nottinghamshire Derbyshire Cheshire Page 45 Yorkshire Hampshire Isle of Wight Wiltshire Page 46 Gloucestershire Somerset Devon Cornwall Pages 46-47 Berkshire Page 47 Oxfordshire Bedfordshire (Ampthill and Steppingley) Northamptonshire (Duchy of Lancaster) Page 48 Total Dated 1590's pre death of Sir Thomas Heneage 15 October 1595 Glossary from Oxford English Dictionary Acatery. “Room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provisions as the purveyors purchased for the King” Oxford English Dictionary after Halliwell. Amner 16 Century version of almoner Oxford English Dictionary. Squillerye obsolete form of scullery. Wassrye ? wash house.

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Raleigh, Walter,
Hennage, Thomas,
Cecil, William,
Cecil, Robert

fees/charges, courts, Wards & Liveries, High Court of Chancery, High Court of Justice, Duchy of Lancaster, Duchy of Cornwall, royal officials, royal household, Privy Seal, King's Bench, Exchequer