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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.77) | |
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| Language: | English |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 17th c., ca. 1685 |
| Material: | Paper. Watermarks: IR; hunting horn on elaborate shield |
| Physical Description: | 12 folios, 302 x 185 (ca. 230 x 140) mm, ca. 20 long lines, unruled, catchwords (every page) |
| Rubric: | James R. Orders for the governement of our Bedchamber and Privy Lodgeings with the Districts of the same. |
| Incipit: | Our will and pleasure is that our groome of the stole |
| 2o folio: | soe itt is |
| Explicit: | Given at our Court att Whitehall the 14 day of Aprill 1685, in the first yeare of our reigne. By his masters command. Sunderland. |
| Contents: | Fols. 2r – 12r, Copy of orders for the running of the Bedchamber and Privy Lodgings, dated 1685 |
| Script: | Secretary hand |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | ‘List 31’ and ‘£4 10s.’ (sale information?) inside upper cover; George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 20th c., quarter green cloth and marbled paper over paste boards |
| Notes: | Signed by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, (1641 – 1702) Gentleman of the Bedchamber (fol. 12r). The MS has been folded into lengthways and is worn and dirty on fol. 12v, suggesting that this was a working copy designed to be carried for reference. Larman was a student at Trinity Hall 1914 – 1918. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
