Notes On the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors
The book Notes On the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors was written by author Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954 Here you can read free online of Notes On the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Notes On the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors a good or bad book?
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Dom. Eliz. Vii. 50. ' Collier, i. 332, from Lamd. MS. 86 ; Hist. MSS. Vii. 615. ' Lady Derby writes to Sir Christopher Hatton in 1580 that she had been with her cousin Sackford (Master of the Tents) in ' his house at St. John's ' (Nicolas, Memoirs of Ilatton, 148). Cf. Memorandum A, infra. * An Account froni Christmas, 1559, to Shrovetide, 1567, in S. P. Dom. Eliz. Xlii. 47, is a mere summary of totals. Estimates, warrants, and other minor docu- ments bearing on the expenditure of the office fr...om 1559 to 1570 are noted in I THE TUDOR REVELS 31 been due and unpaid for the Revels. The expenses of the Office during the progress of 1561 alone amounted to ^3, 209 10s. Sd}, and even apart from arrears, the warrants made out from time to time for Benger show that the normal cost of a year's festivities was well in excess of ;^400. With the year from February 28, 1571, to May 31, 1572, begins the series of years for which elaborate accounts exist in the Record Office, and were printed by Peter Cunningham in 1842.^ These are Original Accounts, or Officers' Books of Account, rendered by the officers of the Revels to the Auditors of the Prest, who were officials established on the accession of Elizabeth in order to effect a more systematic and periodical control of state expenditure than had formerly prevailed.
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