Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 376

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Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Languages : English
Author : Roger Taverner (15..-1582?)
Date of Origin :
- 1500 - 1599
Script :
- clearly written
Support Material : Paper
Composition :
- ff. viii + 141
Dimensions :
- 148 x 204
Codicological details :
- 27 lines to a page
- ff. i-v + pp. 1-142 + ff. vi-vii

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Résumé : CCCC MS 376 contains two essays by Roger Taverner (d. 1582) addressed to Queen Elizabeth. The first, and most extensive, of these essays addresses the prevention of famine in England and the second is a brief discussion of coin devaluation. The author was the surveyor of the royal forests south of the Trent and brother to Richard Taverner (c. 1505-75).

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Langue(s) des textes : anglais

Intervenants :
Roger Taverner - author
iiir-136 - Roger Taverner, Remedies ... of dearth of victuals || A discourse presented to queen Elizabeth by Roger Taverner of the means of preventing a scarcity of provision
Note : (iiir) The table occupies 5 pages
Note : (1) Dedication by Roger Taverner to Elizabeth
rubric : (5) To the reader
Note : (7) Chapter 1
Note : (136) Chapter 20 ends

137-141 - Roger Taverner, On the devaluation of coinage
rubric : (137) A deuice howe the Quenes maiestie may hereafter in tymes of warre (her coynes being first reduced unto the rate of xl8 thounce of golde and xld thounce of silver) raise yerely great masses of money by thalteration of her coynes and yet nevertheles at her owne pleasure reduce the coynes unto theire former estate
Note : (141) Ending

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Research: The author was brother to the more celebrated Richard Taverner, and was surveyor of the royal forests south of the Trent. He is mentioned in Tanner's Bibliotheca.