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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries

Document Reference	Pw V 93
Title	MS volume of orders for the administration of the royal household; 1673
Date	1682
Date	1673
Extent	25 ff
Level	Item/file
Access Conditions	Microfilm surrogate available - readers may be required to use the microfilm in the first instance.
Content Description	The volume contains (ff 2r-13r) orders for the government of the bedchamber and privy lodgings, drawn up in 1673. It is likely they were copied from the same orders in Pw V 92 (dated 1661). Folios 2r-v are autographed 'Charles R' at the top of the page. Folios 3r to 13r are autographed 'CR'. The orders are a confirmation of the 'auncient Orders...made by his Ma:ties our Royall Father and Grandfather...and as they were also established by his most Sacred Ma:tie that now is in the thirteenth yeare of his Ma:ties Reigne, Annoq Domini 1661' (see Pw V 92). The volume also contains (ff 20r-21r) 'Additional Orders by Our especiall Command for reviving confirming and continuing Our former Orders conteyned in this booke, and for the better Regulation of our Bedchamber &c'. These are dated 1678. Folios 14v to 16r contain lists of 'the Gentlemen and Groomes of the Kings Bedchamber'. Folios 18r to 19v are 'A true Copy of his Mats last Letters Patents under the great Seale for assertaining and confirming the Salary, fees & perquisitts belongin unto his Ma:ties Groome of the Stole...'. Folio 20r is autographed 'Charles R', and folios 20v-21r are autographed 'CR'. A copy of a letter (ff 22r-23v) of May 1662 is affixed to folio 24r. It is from the king to the Earle of Manchester, the Lord Chamberlain, ordering that he admit 'Lord Mansfeild to be one of the Gentlemen of our Bed Chamber...'. John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath, became groom of the stole in 1660.
Title Of Work	A Booke containing his Ma:ts Orders for the government of the Bedchamber and the Privy Lodgings under the Charge of the Groome of the Stole, as was formerly made after his Ma:ts most happy Restauration in the thirteenth yeare of his Ma:ts Reigne 1661. Which said Orders being of late neglected and discontinued are now revived & confirmed with some further explanation of his Ma:ts pleasure concerning his necessary attendance in his bedchamber & his said Privy or private Lodgings by his Ma:ts speciall Comand in the five & twentieth yeare of his Ma:ts Reigne 1673. The Earle of Bathe being Groom of the Stole & first Gentleman of his Ma:ts Bedchamber.
ReprodnNote	Volumes from Pw V cannot be photographed by readers with their own camera or device, but reprographic copies can be supplied for educational and private study purposes only.
Physical Description	Folio volume Body of book entirely copied on vellum; ff 21 and 22 are chainlines sheet folded once and pasted on f 23 and ff 23-26 are blank.
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Strasbourg Lily, i.e. fleur de lis within crowned shield and insignia 4WR suspended from the shield, 138 x 68 mm (Type A, in flyleaves and pastedowns) Countermark: Letters AI, 15 x 22 mm (With Type A) Chainlines, about 24 mm apart (Type B, copy of letter pasted on f 23.) Presentation copy on ruled vellum Vellum binding with gold tooling, double border lines and thistle stamp on all corners of front and back covers; gold graphed; spine is stamped with 23 double horizontal lines from top to base; binder added a front flyleaf and title page and three flyleaves to back of book.
Watermark	Strasbourg lily
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