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James I. Establishment list

Reference code
MSS/0074
Title
James I. Establishment list
Date
17th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
ff. iii + 30.
Quarto.
Vellum binding, repaired with reversed leather.
Scope and content
'A true Collection as well of all the Kinges maties offices and ffees, in any the Courtes at Westm., as of all the offices, and ffees of his maties honorable howsehould..'. An establishment list, fols. 3v-28, similar to MSS/0045. Number of places and fees given but the only name entered is that of Lord Ellesmere as Lord Chancellor (d. 15 March 1616/17). Preceded by a list of nobility (pencil date 1606, fol. 1), fols. 1-3v, beginning with the Marquess of Winchester; last Baron entered, Lord Clifton (by writ, 1608).
Creator
James I (1566-1625), King of Great Britain and Ireland
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/74
Archival history
Read to SA by Sir Joseph Banks, 31 March, 28 Apr. 1803. Minute Book XXIX, pp. 463-70, 477-82.

Published in Archaeologia, 15 (1806), 72-91. See also Proc., 2nd ser., 2 (1861-4), 25-6.
Related units of description
For other establishment lists, temp. Jas. I, see MSS/0040, MSS/0045, MSS/0075.