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Senate House Library, University of London

Accounts of butlerage and prisage


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 18

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Accounts of butlerage and prisage

Date(s): 1597-1601

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 42 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Butlerage was a commuted toll paid in specie at a fixed rate upon every cask imported by alien traders, and prisage a tax in kind on denizen subjects of the English crown importing wines.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing accounts of butlerage and prisage from 26 July 1597 to 29 September 1600, and for half a year ending at Easter 1601.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio. Bound in half morocco over the old vellum covers. Half of the first leaf and the top corner of the second leaf are missing.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

The manuscript contains a bookplate of the Aikman family. It was bought by Herbert Somerton Foxwell at the W J Thoms sale at Sotheby's, 9 Feb 1887.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2000


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Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance

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