Elizabethan Naval Administration by Knighton C. S.;Loades David;Jones Dr Ben; & David Loades

Author:Knighton, C. S.;Loades, David;Jones, Dr Ben; & David Loades
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

1 The others are listed and related to the corresponding Declared Accounts in Appendix 1 below.

2 A tabular synopsis is given below (pp. 16–18).

3 APC 1556–8, p. 40.

1 See NEM, pp. 525–6.

2 No warrants of any kind survive in the Exchequer files for 4 Eliz. (1561–62). Those which do for years 5 and 6 (1562–64) are in E 404/115. The individual warrants in this file are not separately numbered, and reference is made to the year bundles.

3 Both from PSO 2/13, bundle May 1563 (those marked #Y6, #Y10 on pp. 244–5); the PSO warrants are gathered into monthly bundles, but are not individually numbered.

4 BL, Add. MSS 78169–78171 (formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MSS 68, 69, 283). Evelyn’s archive, along with his library, passed to descendants who in 1949 deposited them at Christ Church. The library was sold and dispersed in the 1970s, though a nucleus of some 300 volumes was preserved through purchase by the British Library. When the archive was sold by the Evelyn Trustees in 1995, the whole collection was acquired for the BL, with substantial assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund: T. Hoffmann et al., ‘John Evelyn’s Archive at the British Library’, in John Evelyn in the British Library (BL publication, 1995), pp. 11–73, with (p. 59) a brief list of the Elizabethan naval MSS inherited from the Gonson family. Much fuller descriptions are given in the BL provisional catalogue, and in Appendix 4 below, which is developed from the BL catalogue by courtesy of the Library authorities.

1 Even though accounting was by quarters of the calendar year reckoned from 1 January (i.e. determining 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December), the quarters were loosely referred to by the names derived from the conventional terminal dates of Lady Day (25 March), Midsummer (24 June), Michaelmas (29 Sept.) and Christmas (25 Dec.). The names of the quarters do not appear in the finished book, but are often used in the papers from which this was compiled.

2 OED, ‘server’, 1.c.; cf. ‘serve’ v1. 36.

3 See particularly the example of Matthew Baker’s servers noted in full on p. 87, where the draft supplies one ‘server’ identification which the final version gives in every other instance.

1 Alexander is identified as the second scribe by the record that he had entered up the Colne section for Michaelmas quarter 1563: BL, Add. MS 78171 [item 1(g)], f. 40, as detailed in Appendix 4 below. He had assisted the composition of the previous year’s account, principally by supplying details from the pay-books: below, p. 225.

2 The archival descent is fully set out in S. Adams, ‘The papers of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. I. The Browne-Evelyn collection’, Archives, XX (1992), pp. 63–85.

3 Evelyn showed one of the volumes (‘a Lieger of the Treasurer of the Navy … just 100 years old’) to Pepys on 24 Nov. 1665, which Pepys liked so much that Evelyn immediately made him a present of it, and promised to find others, yet older: Pepys, Diary, vi, pp.

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