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Document Reference	Pw V 83
Title	MS biography, entitled 'A brief collection of the greatest part of the life of Sir James Croft, Controwler of the Household...', by Sir James Croft; n.d.
Extent	59 ff plus 15 stubs
Level	Piece
Content Description	The volume contains a short biography of Sir James Croft (d 1590), lord deputy of Ireland and controller of Queen Elizabeth's household. There is some text in Latin on f 48v and f 58v.
Title Of Work	A brief collection of the greatest part of the life of Sir James Croft, Controwler of the household: and of the Privie Councell to Queen Elizabeth, gathered by himself, & presented to one of the Lords of the councell. Anno aetatis Suae 63
Language	English
Physical Description	Octavo book 9 stubs between front pastedowns and first folio and 6 stubs between ff 58 and 59
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Grapes (large) with letters MC as stems of bunch of grapes, approx. 50 x 25 mm English, late 16th or early 17th century, brown calf blind tooled binding; both covers have a similar decoration consisting of fillets and a rectangular border framing a rectangular field; the contemporary binder used two leaves of finely written vellum as pastedowns; after binding the edges were dyed brown.
Watermark	Grapes
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