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Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of £3 4s. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer [the Marquess] from the Treasurer’s place at London to Yorkshire to deliver a letter to the ‘costomere’ ther, and for returning ‘with lyche [like] spede’ to London. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt. ‘I was xxiiij dayes in thys Jorney.’

(Marked ‘fiat Alloc[atum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of £5 16d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer [the Marquess] from the Treasurer’s place at London to Cheshire and Lancashire, as far as Hornby Castle, to deliver letters to the collectors in those shires. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt. ‘I was out xxxviij dayes in thys same Jorney.’

(Marked ‘fiat Alloc[atum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of £5 16d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer [the Marquess] from the Treasurer’s place at London to Bedford and Buckingham to deliver ten letters to the lords and collectors there, and from thence to Warwickshire to deliver seven letters to the lords and collectors there, and from thence to Nottingham and Derby to deliver four letters to the lords and collectors there, and from thence to Staffordshire to deliver four letters to the lords and collectors there and a packet to the sheriff of that place, and from thence to Shropshire to deliver three letters to the collector there. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt at Westminster. ‘I was xxxviij dayes out in thys Jorney.’

(Marked ‘fiat All[ocatum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

Robert Kitcheman, one of the ordinary messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of 26s. 8d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer [the Marquess] from the Treasurer’s place at London to ‘Pesnell’ [Peasenhall] in Suffolk to deliver a writ to Sir Owen Hopton, sheriff of Suffolk and Norfolk, and for returning to London ‘with like hast’. Kitcheman asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt at Westminster. ‘I was out in this Jorney the space of x Dayes.’

(Marked ‘fiat All[ocatum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of 26s. 8d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer [the Marquess] from the Treasurer’s place at London to deliver letters to Mr Dawbeny [probably Christopher Daubeney] at ‘Shyryngton’ [Sharrington], 20 miles beyond Norfolk, [and for returning to London?—the text is unclear]. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt. ‘I was owt In thys Jorney x days.’

(Marked ‘fiat Alloc[atum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

£66 13s. 4d. is to be allowed to Gilbert Gerard, attorney general, and to Richard Onslow, solicitor general, for their work in ‘drawinge of bookes’ and attendance in connection with the suit between between the Queen and the Earl of Northumberland concerning copper, gold, and silver mines [the ‘Case of Mines’], in which judgement was given for the Queen, and also for their work in another matter relating to the College of Llandinbrevie(?) [this is the apparent reading], in which judgement was also given for the Queen.

(Headed ‘At the liberate Termino Trinitatis anno Decimo Regine Elizabeth’’. In the hand of an amanuensis. Signed by Winchester and Mildmay.)

John Gill had a lease from Queen dated 4 Mar. 1563, by which he was granted, among other things, a tenement late in the occupation of John Bingley in Over Trelabe, Cornwall, part of the manor of Carmedon Prior, and another tenement late in the occupation of John Shere in Nethertrelabe, part of the manor of Clemeslande [Climsland] Prior, Cornwall. The yearly rent of the two tenements is 56s. 2d. and the fine is equivalent to four years’ rent, i.e. £11 4s. 8d. Gill having surrendered his interest in these tenements, the Queen, being petitioned for them, has granted them by letters patent dated 18 Nov. 1564 to William Sheres, in reversion for 31 years [see the Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1563–1566, p. 342]. The correspondent is therefore directed to repay Gill or the bringer of the letter £11 4s. 8d., and take an acquittance in return.

(In the hand of an amanuensis. Signed by Winchester and Mildmay. Examined by Christopher Smyth, clerk of the pipe.)

See the separate descriptions of the contents. On the spine is stamped ‘Marquiss [sic] of Winchester’.

Humphrey Shelton, auditor of the Receipt, has worked diligently in his reckonings with the tellers, and they are now brought to ‘good and perfecte order’. It has come to light that one annuity of £40 a year, granted by the house of St John of Jerusalem for thirty years to Thomas Hennage, gentleman, has been paid for 4½ years after the end of the term, and that another annuity of £20 a year granted by Queen Mary to Edmund Beningfild, gentleman, for the term of his life, has been paid for three years after his death. A total of £240 is therefore to be paid back to the Queen. In consideration of these discoveries and of Shelton’s diligence and service they have allowed him £60. Stanley is to pay Shelton this sum and obtain a quittance in return.

(In the hand of an amanuensis. Signed by Winchester and Mildmay.)

‘Index sequitur in calce’ has been added to the title by hand.

This is probably a separate title-page for the Psalter from a Bible published at Geneva, though the stated place of printing is London. Cf. Bibles … and other Books … in the Collection of Lea Wilson (1845), no. 50.

Nine lines, beginning ‘Si mihi sint vires, et prædia magna: quid inde?’ Addressed to ‘Dn: Alberto Wessenero’ (dative).

A porcupine below the motto ‘Mordentes sauciabuntur’, within a strapwork car-touche. This device appears at the end of Icones operum misercordiae, by Giulio Roscio (1586).

‘Nos prece, non aliis armis pugnemus inermes, | Qui prece se munit, cum prece victor erit.’ (Cf. P. Leyser, Officium pietatis, quod B. D. Polycarpo Lysero seniori … debuit [1704], p. 192.) Dated at Wittenberg.

‘Da mihi, Christe Deus, quæ das tibi sanguine junctis, | Coelica, Christe, mihi sanguine parta tuo.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

‘Non potest malè mori, qui bene vixit: et vix bene moritur, qui malè vixit.’ (Augustine.) Dated ‘Dom. 1. post Trinit. 93.’ Probably written at Wittenberg. The writer’s title is ‘in Acad[emia] Witt[enbergensi] Pr[ofessor] P[ublicus].’

‘Mente colas Christum, prosis multis, noceasque | Nemini, amesque bonos, sustineasque malos.’ Dated at Wittenberg. Nyman’s title and position at Meissen has been added in a different hand.

‘Bonæ mentis usurpatio nullum tristioris fortunæ recipit incursum.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

‘Ut metus absit, retineatur charitas.’ (Cicero.)

‘In hoc Unusquisque nostrum | Viret ut arescat | Adolescit ut senescat | Ascendit ut descendat | Vivit ut moriatur.’ (‘Guido Bituricensis’ (Guy de Fontenay?).) The year has been struck through.

Engraved by Jaspar Isaac.

Engraved by Michel Lasne.