List of the offices of England, 1590

Manuscript volume, 1590, entitled 'A generall collection of all offices of England with their fees in the Queenes gifte', giving details of the offices in the courts at Westminster, the Royal Household, military posts, and posts connected with royal houses, parks and forests. The manuscript also includes a valuation of clergy livings and the tithes payable to Queen Elizabeth I. An eighteenth century index is included.

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Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

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Small manuscript quarto.

Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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The volume was inscribed 'Cassador' in the late sixteenth century, and was later bought by Herbert Somerton Foxwell.

University of London MS 23 may be a later version of this manuscript.