Order and letter book Includes: f.1 1558 (June) Privy Council to Lord Chandos,...

Order and letter book

Includes:

f.1 1558 (June) Privy Council to Lord Chandos, Lord Lieutenant for Gloucestershire: danger of Spanish invasion; review of trained bands; appointment of a Provost Marshall for the arrest and punishment of idle vagabonds to prevent spread of false rumours

f. 2 [1586/7-1588] 'A book containing briefly the order of the musters and taxation money... within the City and County thereof from the first time of the publishing of one Commission of Lieutenancy granted to the right honourable the Lord Chandos...during the time of the attempts of the Spanish king and his associates for invading the realm. And of the setting forth of a ship and pinnace...and of the arming and setting forth of three hundred footmen and five and twenty lance and light horses with petronells within the said City of Gloucester and County of the same City for that service against the forces of the said Spanish king.'

f. 3 1586/7 Original Commission of Lieutenancy infringed the charter of Eliz. I; Gloucester Corporation obtained a new Commission requiring Lord Chandos to commission Deputy Lieutenants for Gloucester in accordance with the charger

ff.3v-4 1586/7 375 infantry and 25 lance and light horsemen raised and equipped (details) by Gloucester. Names of persons assessed

f. 5 1612 Cost of equipment

ff.5b-9 1587 Muster certificate (detailed)

ff.9v-10 1588 (April) Lord Lieutenant to Deputy Lieutenants of Gloucester: provision of powder and shot

f. 10 1588 (April/May) Musters and training

f. 10v 1588 Names of men who had previously served in war [France, Netherlands and with Drake]

ff.11-12 1588 Officers (Wm. Bridges of Prinknash, Captain), equipment, training, cost

ff.12v-13 1587-8 Assessments of City and its county

ff.13v-14v 1588 (June-July) Beacon on Robinswood Hill; oaths and duties of overseers and watchmen; beacons on 'Evesburie' Hill and Cleeve Hill

ff.14v-17 1588 (May) Gloucester and Tewkesbury charged with providing a ship and a pinnace

ff.17-18 1588 (July) Names of persons providing further arms and equipment

f. 18 1588 (July) Price of arms and armour

ff. 18v-19 1588 (July/Aug.) Assessment for 1500 footmen for London

ff. 19v-20 1588 (Aug.) Watch and Ward in the city; porters' oath and duties

f.20 1588 (Aug.) Assessment for 1000 men

ff.20v-24v 1588 (July/Aug.) 300 trained men from Gloucester selected; names and equipment enroled; to assemble at 'Strottens Elme' near Cirencester

f.25 1588 (July/Aug.) Names and equipment of light horsemen sent to Cirencester

ff.26-32v 1588 (Aug.) Roll of owners of armour and equipment for the 300 men

f. 33 1588 (Aug.) News of the defeat of the Armada and disbanding of the men; armour and equipment returned to owners

f. 33v 1588 (Oct.) 25 soldiers selected for service in Ireland

Ibid 1588 (Sept) Queens orders re name

f. 34 1588 (Dec.) Soldiers mustered for the clergy

ff.34v-35 1588/9 Persons from whom loans to crown required

ff.35v-36v 1589 Men selected from Gloucester for expedition to Lisbon; muster held in June at Gloucester

ff.39v-49 1588 Total cost of providing the ship and pinnace, and assessment (names, some occupations)

ff.49v-50v 1589/90 1590 [Feb] Enrolment of 25 men for service in Ireland; assessment

ff.51, 53 1589/90 Assessment for cost of keeping a stock of powder and match

ff.52-53v 1590 Muster of all seafaring men: age, abode, occupation

f. 54 1590-92 Composition for provisions, and assessment

f. 55 1590 Musters and list of deficiencies in armour

ff.56-60 1591 150 men (11 from Gloucester) mustered and equipped for Normandy; assessment

f. 61 1592 Council of the Marches of Wales sat at Gloucester, Trinity Term, in Chapter House and lodged in Bishop's palace; entertainment

f. 62 1592 Queen's progress and stay at Sudeley

ff.63-67v 1592 200 men (20 from Gloucester) raised for Brittany expedition. Enrolment of names of 20 from Gloucester and equipment provided; assessment

ff.68-69 1592 J.P.s to take oaths of J.P. and supremacy; those (including those whose wives and heirs above age of 16 years) who do not attend divine service, not to exercise office and to be left out of the Commission of the Peace while such recussancy persists

ff.69v-71v 1592/3 Names enroled of 15 soldiers and 2 'supplies' for service in Normandy; equipment; assessment of city and its county (150 from Gloucestershire)

ff.72-73v 1593-4 Rates levied for relief of those infected with the plague, and details of progress of the plague

f. 74 1593/4 No men from Gloucester required for service in Low Country

f. 75 1594 Council of the Marches of Wales sat at Chapter House, Gloucester, Trinity Term

ff.75v-76 1593-1594 Assessment for provisions (County of City)

f. 77 1594-1595 Scarcity of corn, rise in prices, orders from Privy Council for general measures to be taken; special order to Gloucester as a 'precedent and light to the malting towns of the outshire' re restraint on maltmaking. Prices Jan. 1593/4, May 1594, May 1595

ff.77v-79 1595 Dispute between Gloucester and county over raising men for service in Ireland, city maintaining that its charter prevented musters being held in the city without special warrant

ff.79v-81 1595 Assessment and names of men mustered by city and continuing dispute with county over proportion of cost due from city

ff.82-89 1600, 1616, 1618 Copies of letters to Lord Lieutenant and from him to Mayor and Recorder: men for service in Ireland; musters

f. 89v [1618] 'The letters after this are entered into a new white book of musters'

f. 94v. n.d. Note of rating of Hartpury, Sandhurst, Churchdown, Horton

f. 95 1595 Number of yard lands in every parish and township of the Hundreds of Dudstone and King's Barton and provision assessment

Note: The next section bound into this volume was originally separate. It relates to the rating and assessment of the Hundreds of Dudstone and King's Barton and is referred to in GBR/I/1/41 as 'A Book of Ancient taxations and Instructions for a conference with the Lord Chandos for the rating of the County of the City in Q. Eliza' and King James 1sts reign.' See also GBR/G/5/1 ff. 59-63

ff.97-102v 1603-1616 Provision rates levied on the county of the city of Gloucester

f. 103 1616 Assessment for soldiers for Ireland

f. 103v 1613-16 Captain Poole's wages; cost of match, powder, drummers and fife players

f. 104 1617 Provision rate

f. 104v 1618 County Quarter Sessions to Mayor: re Thomas Gawen, 'undertaker', for the provision of H.M. household; his losses, and amount p.a. agreed with him for next 7 years as undertaker

f. 105 1619 Provision rate

f. 111 1617 Account of receipts and expenditure, powder, etc. (see f. 103v)

f. 112 1616 Assessment for wages of Capt. Poole 'Muster Master of the City of Gloucester and County thereof' and expenditure

f. 113v 1608/9 Assessment for wages of John Lewes, Muster Master of the City and its liberties

<p>[Evesbury Hill i.e. Haresford Beacon, see Victoria County History vol. 10p, 189)</p>