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HENRY VII Leaf of accounts signed ("HR") and bearing his autograph attestation "co[m]puta[tu]r ho[c] anno" (against the account submitted by John Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber, [22 August 1506-21 August 1507]
15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
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HENRY VII
Leaf of accounts signed ("HR") and bearing his autograph attestation "co[m]puta[tu]r ho[c] anno" (against the account submitted by John Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber, totalling £387-10s-10d), headed "Anno XXII", headed by the lands and possessions of Sir Edward Burgh, and listing rentals paid, amongst others, by the Bishop of Lincoln, Prior of Spalding, Abbot of Selby, Sir John Hussey, William Heneage; in a fine Chancery Script, 2 pages, on both sides of a single leaf extracted from a volume, paper watermarked with an orb, old damp-stains at upper and left margins, small tears at upper edge and other stains, large folio (410 x 282mm.), [22 August 1506-21 August 1507]
Footnotes
HENRY VII CHECKS AND SIGNS OFF THE ROYAL ACCOUNTS: the close personal attention he paid to the accounts of his newly established Chamber (the office of the royal household which he developed into a national treasury) restored the authority and prestige of the crown after the instability of the fifteenth century. It has also given him an unwarranted reputation for parsimony. The top half of the first page of these accounts lists revenues from the estate of "Edward Burgh milit." Sir Edward Burgh (Borough), had been knighted at Stoke Field in 1487, the battle which put paid to the claims of Lambert Simnel, and succeeded to his father's title as Baron Burgh in 1497. However although a friend of the king, his erratic behaviour meant that he was never summoned to parliament and the title lapsed; and in 1510 he was declared a lunatic. His estates therefore passed into royal custody. He was long confused by historians with his grandson and namesake, first husband of the future queen, Katherine Parr.