Manuscript/Mixed Material Privy Council order for the payment of ration and transportation money for a body of troops

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Title

  • Privy Council order for the payment of ration and transportation money for a body of troops

Summary

  • The order provides for the payment of £562 12 s. 10 d. for provisions and transport of soldiers to Ireland recruited in Wales "and other counties adioyninge." The most notable of the signatories was Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, commander of the English fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada of 1588. Other signers who took part in the 1588 campaign were Knollys, who commanded a force of infantry, and Carey, Governor of the Isle of Wight, an important position.

Names

  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • August 17, 1598.

Headings

  • -  Dorset, Thomas Sackville,--Earl of,--1536-1608
  • -  Nottingham, Charles Howard,--Earl of,--approximately 1536-1624

Notes

  • -  Manuscript on paper, written in Elizabethan English cursive script. Signed by Howard ("Notingham"); Sackville ("T. Buckhurst"); Roger Baron North, Privy Councillor; Robert Cecil, Secretary of State; Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere, Privy Councillor; William Knollys, Earl of Banbury, Privy Councillor; and George Carey, Baron Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain. 1 page. Folio (305 x 215 mm.). With attached leaf bearing address and docket. In a cloth folder.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Description based on Global Gateway metadata.
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • 1 sheet

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021699437

Online Format

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  • image

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Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Privy Council order for the payment of ration and transportation money for a body of troops. 1598. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021699437/>.