Catalogue description INVENTORIES

Small group of inventories that, while probably not originally part of the records of the auditors of the land revenue, were rediscovered in 1790 and added to their records. During the 1790s many of these volumes were given detailed contents lists and rebound. The most likely original source of the first two of these volumes is the records of the Court of Augmentations as they relate to the Dissolution. The following two groups are similar to inventories of the goods of traitors.

There are, firstly, five inventories relating to the goods of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk and their disposal during the period 1546 to 1551 (LR 113-117), including those taken by Sir John Gates. Sir John Gates was himself convicted as a traitor in 1553, and the inventories of his goods are amongst those forming the second group of traitors' inventories of John, Duke of Northumberland, Archbishop Cranmer and their fellow conspirators (LR 2/118-120). The remaining inventories are royal.

There is a very fine and detailed inventory of Elizabeth I's wardrobe and jewels of 1600 in LR 2/121, which also includes an inventory of the wardrobe of Anne of Denmark, the consort of James I. There is also a volume of accounts of the Anne's jeweller in LR 2/122. Finally there are two volumes relating to Charles I: one containing inventories and other documents relating to the king's pawned goods (LR 2/123) and the other the extensive inventories of his goods taken under the Act of 4 July 1649 (LR 2/124).

For inventories of the goods of traitors amongst the records of the King's Remembrancer,

see E 154

See O Millar, ed, 'The inventories and valuations of the king's goods 1649-1651', Walpole Society (1972) XLIII.