Osborn fa9

          Sir Francis Walsingham (d. 1590), Charges disbursed in Queen
     Elizabeth's service between June 16 and October 5, 1579. England; 1578.

     ff. i-vi    Various clippings relating to the manuscript, Walsingham
     and the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day.

     f. 1r    Description of charges

     ff. 2-3r    Allowance of Dyat

     ff. 4-5r    Posting Horses

     ff. 6-7r    Transportacion

     ff. 8-9r    Intelligence or Spialles

     ff. 10-11r    Sending of Letters

     ff. 12-13r    Land Cariage

          Paper; vi + 14 + ix ff.; 312 x 203 mm.; 1 column.

          The manuscript is bound too tightly to collate.

          Cursive script. The headings of certain sections are written with
     a larger and more ornate script. Bound in red boards, quarter dark
     green morocco.

          Catalogue of John Waller, bookseller, of May 1867. Bought from
     Quaritch. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.

          Comments: At the end of each of the charges is the signature of
     Walsingham, a member of Queen Elizabeth's privy Council and secretary
     of state. The folios were once folded into eighths with a description
     of the contents written on the outside, now on f. 14v. The charges are
     from the period in which Walsingham went to the Low Countries on a
     mission for the Queen.



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