Warrants from Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor, for payment to Christopher Barker [manuscript], 1587-1588.
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Title
Warrants from Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor, for payment to Christopher Barker [manuscript], 1587-1588.
Description
4 items.
Scope and content
Authorizing payments to deputies of the Queens printer Christopher Barker.
Note
Addressed: To the Clarke of the hanap[er] in the Co[u]rt of Chancerie or to his deputie. Dated: This 30 of September 1587. Signed: Chr. Hatton. Canc. 1 leaf ; 31 x 21 cm. Payment for "one large Byble buffe and boste and for thre and twentie other booke bound in like sorte."
Addressed: To the Clerk of the hanaper or his deputie. Undated, covering bills from "xvth of July 1588 unto the fourth daie of August then next following. Signed: Chr. Hatton Canc. 1 leaf ; 32 x 21 cm. Payment for "bookes of Rates for servaunte wages and for booke and paper delivered into the Crowne office." With list of items and amount owed.
Addressed: To the clerk of the hanaper or his Deputie. Undated, covering bills from "the first of August Anno xxix° Qne Rne Elizabeth until the fiftenthe of December." Signed: Chr. Hatton Canc. 1 leaf ; 34 x 23 cm. For "proclamacyons bookes paper yncke and other necessarie[s]." With list of items and amount owed.
Addressed: to the Clerke of the hanaper or his Deputie. Dated: Tricesimo die Maij Anno R. Rne Elizabeth Tricesimo 1588. Signed: Chr. Hatton Canc. 1 leaf ; 20 x 22 cm. The sum of £14 for "twelve hundreth booke."
Addressed: To the Clerk of the hanaper or his deputie. Undated, covering bills from "xvth of July 1588 unto the fourth daie of August then next following. Signed: Chr. Hatton Canc. 1 leaf ; 32 x 21 cm. Payment for "bookes of Rates for servaunte wages and for booke and paper delivered into the Crowne office." With list of items and amount owed.
Addressed: To the clerk of the hanaper or his Deputie. Undated, covering bills from "the first of August Anno xxix° Qne Rne Elizabeth until the fiftenthe of December." Signed: Chr. Hatton Canc. 1 leaf ; 34 x 23 cm. For "proclamacyons bookes paper yncke and other necessarie[s]." With list of items and amount owed.
Addressed: to the Clerke of the hanaper or his Deputie. Dated: Tricesimo die Maij Anno R. Rne Elizabeth Tricesimo 1588. Signed: Chr. Hatton Canc. 1 leaf ; 20 x 22 cm. The sum of £14 for "twelve hundreth booke."
Provenance
Formerly Folger MS Add 990.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. in 1995, (from Sotheby's London sale Dec. 13, 1994, lot 286).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. Decade of Collecting (catalog entry 5)
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Warrants.
Warrants.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
X.d.687 (1-4)
Folger accession
MS Add 990