Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 155861, 158486 (Camden Fifth Series)
Contributors: Simon Adams (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780521551564
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Personal Finance; Sources; Households; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; Manuscripts; History; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; Finance, Personal; Asia - Japan; History / Great Britain; Leicester, Robert Dudley; Leicester, Robert Dudley,--Earl of,--1532?-1588--Manuscripts; 16th century; Leicester, Robert Dudley,; Nobility; 1532?-1588; Earl of,; England
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Description: Robert Dudley, the first Earl of Leicester, was a leading figure at the court of Elizabeth I, and this book presents a scholarly edition of both his two surviving household accounts (from 1558 to 1581), and the fragments of his disbursement books (from 1584 to 1586). The work also includes an appendix of those lists of household servants that have survived.

This is the only collection of such information available for such a prominent member of the Elizabethan court, and as such provides numerous valuable insights into the personal finances of members of the Elizabethan aristocracy. It will thus be essential reading for any serious scholar of the high politics of the Elizabethan period.