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III. Account of New Years Gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth, 1584-5, communicated by Bishop Lyttelton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The dean of Exeter (now bishop of Carlisle) shewed the Society a large parchment roll containing a list of new years gifts presented to queen Elizabeth at Greenwich on the 1st January, 1584–5, signed by the queen, and countersigned by John Astley Esq; master and treasurer of the jewels; by which it appears, that the greatest part, if not all the peers and peeresses of the realm, all the bishops, the chief officers of state, and several of the queen's houshold servants, even down to her apothecaries, master-cook, serjeant of the pastry, &c. gave new years gifts to her majesty.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1770

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