Inventory of "Howsehold stuf" at Leicester House, including "Hangings" (f.2) "Bedsteds...

Inventory of "Howsehold stuf" at Leicester House, including "Hangings" (f.2) "Bedsteds with their furniture" (f.5), "Silke Quilts" (f.8), "Saye" and "Lynnen Quilts" (ff.8b, 9), "Beddes" (f.10), "Fustians" (f.12), "Wollen Blanketes" (f.13), "Rugges" (f.14), "cownterpoynts" (f.14b), "Pilloes", (f.16), "Mattresses", (f.16b), "Clothe of State" (f.17), "Carpetts" (f.18), "Chaires with their furniture" (f.22), "Lowe stooles", "Cushens, etc." (f.25) "Looking glasses" (f.29), "Skreens" (f.29), "Tables and cupboards" (f.29b). "Instrumentes of Musick" (f.30), "Aundirons" (f.30b), "Warde-robe stuff" (f.31), "Apparell" (f.31b), "Sadles and sadel clothes" (f.33), "Cofers, Boxes, etc," (f.35) "Weapons" (f.36), "Mappes and globes" (f.38), "Ensigns" (f.39), "Bookes" (f.40), "Cisternes" (f.41), "Pictures" (f.42), "Sheets" (f.44), and "Pillobeers" (f.45).

"First perused" (see f.12b), 24 May, 1583, and subsequently at various dates to "the XIth tyme", 23 Mar. 1588[9]. Numerous notes of additions and charges are accordingly entered, in various hands. Some of the articles are noted as presented to, or given away by, Leicester, as (f.36b) a "fyne Turkey bowe" given "to the Turck that earn with Sir F. Drake".

The "Mappes, globes, etc," are 67 in number, including a map of America. Among the 45 books are "a greate Bible covered with red lether embofsed with lattin", an Italian Bible, 31 service-books, "one greate Historicall Book in latten", 4 books of Statutes, a book of Pleas, Boethius, Seneca, Cicero de Officiis, Xenophon's Cyropoedia in Italian, and "Nova Silva, in Italian".

Under "Pictures" are 51 entries, including numerous portraits, among which are "one of Mr Phillip Sydney, when he was a boy", and "My Lo. whole proporcion on clothe made by Hubbard, 1583". To the latter is attached the note "Send to the K. of Scotes". Hubbard or Hubart is the only artist named.

Folio; ff.45. In vellum covers.