Shelfmark
MS 263
Main entry--corporate name
Great Britain Army.
Title
A particular of the ayds granted in each yeare from the 5th November 1688 unto the end of the last sessions being the 16th day of April 1697. Also A computation of what was intended for the army, and an exact accompt of what was granted for the navy for those years respectively with A gen[eral] state of the receipts & issues of the publick revenue taxes and loans from the 5th November 1688 to the 28th September 1696 and Severall estimates and observations relating to the warr. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Army and navy affairs
Publication, distribution, etc.
London? England, 1680s and 1690s.
Physical description
1 volume (62 leaves) : paper ; 24 x 19 cm.
Note
Title taken from title page. Entitled 'Army and navy affairs' in H.W. Nixon, 'Twelve books in fine bindings from the library of J.W. Hely-Hutchinson described and discussed by Howard W. Nixon' (Oxford: Roxburghe Club, 1953).
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Accounts for the money raised for, and expenditure on, the War of the League of Augsburg, or Nine Years' War, which ended in 1697 with the Treaty of Ryswick.
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Place of production inferred from the nature of the manuscript, a formal report apparently produced for a high-ranking British official.
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Dates of production provided within manuscript.
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Pages of text provided with page numbers in ink, totalling 60. A contents list follows these numbered pages.
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Final 24 leaves are blank.
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Text ruled in red ink.
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Written in a professional hand.
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Accounts presented in tables.
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Manuscript number from Sir Thomas Phillipps' library: 7846.
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Booklabel of John Hely-Hutchinson of Chippenham Lodge, Ely on front flyleaf. According to the James interleaved catalogue, Eton MS 932, previously in the library of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford at the Ionian Academy in Corfu, and then purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1830. Purchased by Hely-Hutchinson from W.J. Robinson in June 1947.
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Label recording bequest of the book to Eton College by John Hely-Hutchinson in 30 March 1950.
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A lengthy description of the manuscript, and particularly its binding, can be found in H.W. Nixon, 'Twelve books in fine bindings from the library of J.W. Hely-Hutchinson described and discussed by Howard W. Nixon' (Oxford: Roxburghe Club, 1953), pp. 51-53.
Binding
London red morocco of c. 1697; gold tooled decorative border surrounding a densly ornamented field, including tulip, leaf, urn, acorn, carnation and stag tools; within the frame is an undecorated area roughly the shape of a shield, with five decorated panels within it; gold tooled flower roll on board edges and turn-ins; gold tooled single fillet and ornaments on spine; six raised bands; gilt edges; red, green, blue and white nonpareil marbled endpapers.
Subject
Great Britain Army.
Subject
Accounts Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
North, Frederick,, 1766 - 1827 Earl of Guildford, former owner.
Added entry--name
Phillipps, Thomas, 1792 - 1872 Sir, former owner.
Added entry--name
Hely-Hutchinson, J. W., 1882 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
eng
Identifier
B46691