Hampshire Record Office

A fragment of an octavo notebook, including verses, in a single rounded hand, nine leaves.

A loose paper wrapper is later inscribed Verses writ in old M^r James Harris's hand: i.e. James Harris (1605-79), of Salisbury, lawyer.

c.1630.

Among papers of the Harris (Malmesbury) family.

A court roll concerning George Puttenham and the manor of Sherfield, on a long strip of vellum, 7 March 1563/4.

1564.

A fine between Sir John Throckmorton and George Puttenham and his wife Lady Windsor of the manor of Herriard and various lands for £120, [June] 1574.

1574.

Letter, or copy-letter, signed by Sir John Throckmorton, to Sir John Paulet, on three broadsheet pages, 28-31 March 1579.

Concerning financial matters partly relating to George Puttenham and his wife and mentioning his own search of a nomber of papers and bookes confusedly scattered in dyvers places concerning his debts, mentioning also in a postscript the violent and outrageous manner in which the Sheriff of Hampshire has entered the manor of Herriard and dispossessed all the tenants to deliver the estate to the Paulets; subscribed with a note signed by Paulet's wife Katherine.

1579.

An inventory of George Puttenham's goodes and howsehold stufe at his lodgings in the Whitefriars nere flete strete in London to be delyu^red in extent to John Pawlet esquier and Thomas Ashe gentleman, including carpets, hangings, plate, furniture, etc., among them iij greate chestes, ij greate boxes of wood for writinges with little lockes on them, and viij quiers of paper, on three folio pages, 16 May 1578.

1578.

Notes on the manor of Herriard, its rates and land transactions relating to George Puttenham, including notes by Sir Richard Paulet (d.1614) outlining causes of the dispute between Puttenham and John Paulet, on four quarto pages, 1578.

1578.

Another note about George Puttenham's land-holdings in the manor of Herriard, on one folio page, undated.

A declaraco[n] of the waste made in and vppo[n] the houses and growndes at heriarde by George Puttenhm Esquire, on a broadsheet, undated.

A list of legal costs incurred in the case of George Puttenham versus Lady Windsor, on two folio pages, 30 May 1575 to 9 June 1578.

1575-8.

Declarations of financial accounts and arrangements made between George Puttenham and Sir John Throckmorton in 1573-74, on three folio pages, endorsed Before the lls [i.e. Lords], [1578?].

1578.

Receipt, in the hand of a clerk signed by George Puttenham (Geo. Putenham), for an indenture dated 20 December 1559 received from Richard Paulet and also referring to a release of 27 July 1565, on an oblong octavo page, 18 October 1580.

1580.

Quoted, with a facsimile, in Willis, p. 460.

Quitclaim to Mrs Paulet, written in the hand of a clerk and signed by George Puttenham and by Sir John Throckmorton, relating to Goodes or wrytynges w^thin the white ffryers, on an oblong slip, 8 May 1578.

1578.

An autograph receipt signed by George Puttenham (Geo. Putenham), relating to a wryting received from Sir Richard Paulet concerning an annuity of £240 granted to Puttenham by Paulet on behalf of Lady Windsor on 4 June 1565, the receipt witnessed by the scrivener John Browne before the notary John Hunte, on a single page, 4 November 1580.

1580.

A note of arrears due to Lady Windsor from 30 May 1575 until her divorce from Puttenham on 9 June 1578, on one folio page, [November 1579].

1579.

A note of extracts from court rolls of the manor of Herriard when it was in the hands of Sir Richard Paulet and George Puttenham, on four folio pages, undated.

c.1570s.

An autograph folio account and memorandum book, neatly compiled by Puttenham, 27 leaves (including a few blanks), with three loosely inserted notes of different size, in contemporary vellum.

Comprising: a list of debts, 12 October 1574, and money owed to him, to 14 January 1576 (f. 1v); lists of manors belonging to his wife (f. 2v) and sold by Lord Edward Windsor, wer the Queen hath nothinge in them (f. 3r); accounts of annual household expenses, including wages of his men and women servants (f. 4r), of his rents, 25 March 1575 (f. 4v), money spent in behalf of Mr Woodes during the tyme of his trowble, 1 August 1575 (f. 5v), expenses abowte the keapinge and cawses of his wife Lady Windsor in 1574-75 (f. 6r), and other miscellaneous expenses, June 1575 (f. 6v); notes about the current state of his lawsuits in various courts, with reference to my bookes therof, the bookes that must be copied owt, and related writinges…in a box with S^r Jhon Throckmorton, 1575 (ff. 8r-9v); The inventary of all my bookes and library, comprising some 84 items in Latin, Italian, French and English, 10 [or 18?] November 1576 (f. 16v); expenses paid to my farmo^r Willm for making copies and legal work (ff. 18v-19v); a list of witnesses to the payment of money and acquitances of Sir Francis Fleming, including servants of George and Richard Puttenham (f. 22v); Remembrances of deades and writinges concerninge herrierde title (ff. 23v-24r); a list of items, largely household stuff, given by Lady Windsor to Katherine Paulet and Mary Ayshe (ff. 24v-25r); An inventory of my pewter at London 1576 (f. 25v); and an inventory of clothing and jewellery, c. 1575; on 27 leaves (including a few blanks), folio, together with three loosely inserted notes of different size: namely: (1) an autograph receipt signed twice by George Puttenham for bookes & writinges given to him by Richard Paulet, including seurall pamphletes of paper bookes writen and legal documents, and also one letter of Queen Maryes, 26 August 1582; and (2 and 3) autograph lists of the contents of a chest, travelling expenses, Thinges browght from Herrierd to Vpton the xij^th of october 1575, debts, 10 May 1576, and clothing.

1574-76.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park.

Facsimile pages in Willis, pp. 420-2.

Autograph letter signed by George Puttenham (Geo. putenham) to Sir Richard Paulet, requesting him to find for him in his boxes of evydence that he had in the Whitefriars and in the yron bounde cheste an indenture between Puttenham and Kellham Throckmorton relating to Herriard (for I must needs vse all the writinges which are contayned in a schedule inclosed), on one folio page, 11 May 1586.

1586.

A letter by Lord Burghley to Sir Richard Paulet, politely declining his request for repayments in connection with his long lawsuit with George Puttenham, 2 January 1593/4.

1594.

Autograph letter signed by Sir Richard Paulet, [to George Puttenham], about finding the writinge[s] left by Paulet's father which Puttenham requested and which he will send him via his coosen waller, on an oblong octavo page, 23 May 1586.

1586.

Autograph draft letter signed by Richard Paulet, to Lord Burghley, about his longe, and chargable Sutes in Lawe with George Puttenham to his own great hinderance and almost vtter vndoinge, mentioning Puttenham's suit to the Queen for the return of £1,000 paid by him into the Exchequer (And to that purpose had yo^r honors & others the lle[s] of the cownsells order for a booke to be drawne for yt & passte her hignes signet, yet he was crossed therin (I thinck thoroughe gode[s] p[ro]vydence for his lewdnes) by M^r Sackford, so as he receyved yt not) and requesting this repayment be bestowed upon him instead, on a folio page, 3 December 1593.

1593.

A note in Latin on lawsuits against George Puttenham by John, Katherine and Richard Paulet, Barnabus Arnewode, and the scriveners Hieronimus Studley, William Dodd and William Deringe, on a quarto page, 29 March to 12 May 1578.

1578.

Copy of a letter by Sir John Throckmorton, concerning money received from farms and including news that the Sheriff has entered the manor of Herriard with greate vyolens, dispossessing tenants and delivering lands to Sir Richard Paulet, on four folio pages, 18 March 1578/9.

1579.

An autograph note signed by John Cressett, recording receipt for his master George Puttenham from Sir Richard Paulet of one paper note…touchinge certen wrytinge[s] that was to be delyu^rd vnto Willm Woode[s], on a small strip of paper, 22 October 1580.

1580.

An autograph letter signed by Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor, to George Puttenham, urging a settlement of the controversy between him and Paulet, on a folio page, 16 August 1581.

1581.

18 items chiefly relating to the case of George Puttenham versus his estranged wife Elizabeth Lady Windsor.

18 items relating to the case of John and Sir Richard Paulet and others versus George Puttenham concerning Lady Windsor's estates.

Fifteen items chiefly relating to the case of George Puttenham versus his estranged wife Lady Windsor.

The Coppye of the Inventory of the plate goode[s] and catalle[s] of the right honerable will[ia]m lorde wyndesor, on a roll of 24 broadsheets.

A bond between Jane Kydwelly and Elizabeth Lady Windsor, on a long strip of vellum, 3 March 1559/60.

1560.

A bill of complaint to the Queen by George Puttenham, about the breaking-into his house in Whitefriars and other related problems, on 27 broadsheets; together with a petition by John Paulet to your lordship concerning the Lady Windsor versus Puttenham dispute, on eight broadsheets, 3 February 1577/8.

1578.

Answers of Richard Paulet, Francis More and William Dodd to George Puttenham's bill of complaint about their breaking into his house in the Whitefriars, on eight broadsheets.

c.1578-79.

A note in a secretary's hand, signed by George Puttenham (Geo. putenham), presumably to the Paulet family, requesting them to yelde me myne owne w^th quyetnes and let the bearer Mr Owen have the Inventory you haue take of my goode[s] or a copie therof, on a small slip of paper.

c.1578.

A letter, in a cursive secretary hand, signed by Puttenham (Geo. putenham), to his wife Lady Windsor, concerning a debt of £200 and admonishing her not to make frivolous demands.

c.1576-7?.

Quoted, with a facsimile, in Willis, pp. 426-8.

An autograph receipt signed by George Puttenham (Geo. putenham), relating to an indenture of 30 November 1562 received from Sir Richard Paulet concerning legacies and obligations between Puttenham and Edward Lord Windsor, on one folio page, 5 June 1581.

1581.

Autograph list by Puttenham of Writinge[s] to be deyuerd by Ric pawlet, on a folio page, 11 May 1586.

1586.

Autograph receipt signed by George Puttenham (Geo. putenham), for various parcells of writinges from Sir Richard Paulet via John Waller, on one folio page, 26 May 1586.

1586.

A petition to the Privy Council by Richard Paulet, for reassurances by George Puttenham and the late Sir John Throckmorton's son, Francis, concerning the manor of Herriard and a farm in Upton, which Puttenham had illegally surrendered to the Queen, [November 1583].

1583.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 461-2.

A bill of complaint against George Puttenham addressed to Lord Burghley by Robert Hunt, John Wilwey, Marsell Whitley and John Talnall, farmers of various manors, relating to various of Lord and Lady Windsor's estates, alleging that c.1572/3 Puttenham took advantage of the absence of the Windsors' overseer to take unlawful possession of their premises, on twelve broadsheets, 1578.

1578.

Copy of George Puttenham's information against Thomas Ashe (husband of Mary Paulet), John Hanle, Richard Knight, John Wells and William Bethill, for alleged unlawful possession of a moiety of Weston Corbett manor, Upton Bernard in Upton Grey, and property in Worthy Mortimer and Hartley Wintney, on two broadsheets, November 1582.

1582.

Interrogatories to be administered on behalf of John Hall to Christopher Wilmot of Herriard, on two broadsheets, 22 October 1583.

Concerning George Puttenham's alleged attempt to gain possession of land.

22 October 1583.

Answer by Sir Richard Paulet to a slanderous bill of complaint against him by John Lee and others, on three folio pages, 28 March 1614.

Mentioning the great suite[s] in law he and his father had with George Puttenham who married Sir Richard's grandmother and would have defeated him of his land, yf yt had not ben holpen in the highe court of Starchamber, by which means he was left muche indebted at his fathers deathe Chardged w^th divers Legacies, [c.March-April 1614]; one of eight items concerning complaints against Sir Richard's magistracy in 1606-14.

1614.

Mention of George Puttenham's having allowed Sir Richard Pexall to enclose part of Herriard Common, in one of fifteen items relating to a lawsuit between Richard Savage and Sir Richard Paulet, 1598-1605.

c.1598-1605.

Documents relating to a lawsuit between George Puttenham's beneficiary and administratrix Mary Simmes, widow, and Sir Richard Paulet, concerning the administration of Puttenham's estate, including her charge that Paulet and twelve others had unlawfully and in rioutous manner w^th Iron Barrs entered Puttenham's house at Whitefriars, arrested him and removed certain goods, and Paulet's answer (of 18 November 1611) referring to George Puttenham as his grandmother's most…lewde husband, seven items, seven pages in all, folio and octavo.

1610-13.

A letter signed by Sir John Throckmorton, to Sir Henry Wallop, about the verdict at the Hampshire assizes against George Puttenham and Throckmorton's refusal to let Paulet enjoy any lands in Herriard until his title has been tested, on two folio pages and an address leaf, September 1578.

1578.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 453-4 (as to Thomas Ashe (?)).

An autograph letter signed by Lucy Jervoise, to Mr Guidott, referring to Puttenham's having intangled her grandfather in bondes…in y^e Lady Winsors time.

c.1630s.

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife (1603), on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endosed with a twenty-line poem beginning Death is the goale of fame in life we doe.

c.1620s.

Copy, in two hands, headed A discourse tuchinge the p^rsent Consultation Consernige the peace w^th spayne and there layinge of the nether landes in socitye & P^rection written by s^r walter Rawley, thirteen pages.

c.1620-30s.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park.

A folio booklet of speeches in Parliament, 1640, in a professional hand, 22 leaves (plus blanks).

c.1640s.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park.

Copy of a commission by the Queen, concerning the River Loddon between Basingstoke and Twyford, addressed to John, Marquess of Winchester, and numerous other Hampshire gentlemen, including George Puttenham.

1573-4.

Copy of 33 epigrams (Nos 1-7, 10-13, 15 [18], 16 [19]-35, and 36 lines 1-33 incomplete), in a secretary hand, in a small quarto booklet.

Late 16th or very early 17th century.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park, and probably owned by Sir Thomas Jervoise (1588-1654).

Copy of the song, here beginning ffarewell Deare loue since I mvst needes begone, in a secretary hand, on one side of a folio leaf, the verso bearing in the same hand The Answere (beginning Let me chose farewell vntill we next doe meete).

c.1600.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park, and probably owned by Sir Thomas Jervoise (1588-1654).

Edited from this MS in Charles Murray Willis, Shakespeare and George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (St Leonards-on-Sea, 2003), pp. 250-3, with a two-page facsimile.

Autograph fragment by Puttenham, with revisions, beginning entertayne the three estates in euery of ther liberties…, followed by Cap. xviij How the prince sought to entreat the stae of nobillitee in generall; then Cap xix° how the prince in allowinge the state of the nobilletee his premyn ences shoold haue regard that it become not ouer insolent; and Cap xx how respect shoold be had that the state of nobillitee shoold not be impovrished p thother estates, ending …since this only excesse is on of the suckers that of all other drawth most bludd owte of this misticall bodye., on ten folio pages, with stubs of excised leaves beforehand, in vellum.

Seyssel's book is listed in two notebooks (PtG 8-9), once in a book inventory dated 10 November 1576, the other in a catalogue of the books browght from mystres ffranklins howse (Willis, p. 394).

Mid-late 17th century.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard.

Identified as a translation from Seyssel by Eric Lindquist.

An octavo notebook, in varying scripts, includes notes on expenses and accounts; Italian-English vocabularies; linguistic and legal notes in English, Latin and French; some notes written in joined bubbles, others in bracketed columns; and A catalogue of the booke[s] y^t I browght from mystres ffranklins howse (listing over 40 books in French, Latin, Italian and English, and wryten booke[s] of myn owne dyvers), 88 leaves, in a vellum wrapper taken from an older document in Hebrew.

Not in Puttenham's hand, but possibly compiled by members of the Paulet family.

Late 16th century.

This volume is discussed, as if by Puttenham, in Willis, pp. 387-96.

An Inventory of suche goode[s] and cattells of George Puttenham Esquyer as remayned att vpton and heryerd…praysed & vallewed by John Hyde and ten other valuers, on a folio vellum leaf, endorsed with notes about other legal documents.

1579.

A note or Inventory taken of the principall wrytingte[s] and Evidence[s] that remayne in my hande[s] of George Puttenhms Esquire the xix daye of October in the xxij^th yeare of the Raigne of o^r soveraigne Ladye Elizabeth &c. [i.e. 19 October 1580] all w^ch are conteyned in two great Boxes whereof one hathe in him xv. smale Boxes and the other but xiiij as folloueth…, 8 folio leaves, [1561-November 1580].

A detailed and systematic listing [? by Paulet] of some 100 deeds, bills, leases, bonds, acquitances, agreements, releases, certificates, wills, statutes, rentals and other documents, alphabetically arranged in groups, on ff. [1r-5v]; followed (on ff. [6r-8r]) by A note of suche wrytinge[s] and Evidence[s] as have been deliv^rede to S^r John Throckmorton m^r Puttenhn and theire servante[s] since the takeinge of the white ffryards.

1561-80.

Quoted in Willis, p. 457.

Copy of George Puttenham's last will and testament, with an account in Latin of the probate and administration of it by William Woodfall, on a folding membrane of vellum, 14 October 1594.

1594.

A formal assignment by George Puttenham and Sir John Throckmorton to Queen Elizabeth for the repayment of outstanding debts, 27 September 1575.

1575.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 413-14.

A formal document by Puttenham surrendering to Queen Elizabeth all his lands in order to pay off debts, on six pages, 5 June-7 July 1583.

1583.

In Willis, pp. 459, 461.

The Inventorye taken and had the xiij^th daye of ffebruarye A° xx° Regine Elizabeth of sundrye evydence[s] goode[s], and implem^te[s] of household and other thinge[s] in the tenemen^t late in the occupac of George Puttenhm…the White ffryars neere ffleetstreet in London by katherin Poulett wiefe of John Poulett Esquire…, on sixteen folio leaves, in a wrapper of a recycled vellum indenture, annotated and inscribed by William Waller to his brother John, 13 February 1577/8.

A detailed list (on ff. [2v-12v]) of some 370 numbered documents or groups of documents, in addition to a quantity of unnumbered items (more in the same red cheste, etc.), followed (on ff. [12v-14r]) by a list of 112 Bookes (English, French, Latin and Italian), including items at the end such as Two pap booke[s] in pchm^t one wryten in Rym dyalog, one lytle book in velim Contayning a dialog wrytten in Romane hand, One oth^r lyttle booke of Certeyne meeters Wryten in hon^r of her m^ate[s] name in pchem^t bound w^th greene leaves, A pap booke bownde in pchm^t entitled a book of Accompte[s] betwene me & my ffarmers of heryard at o^r lady daye 1574, and a nomber of papers some Rimes. Riddles and oth^r Ragged loose papers.

1577/8.

A formal licence to pass beyond the seas granted to George Puttenham by Queen Elizabeth, in a professional secretary hand, signed at the top by the Queen and bearing her seal.

5 May 1567.

Quoted with a facsimile, in Willis, pp. 396-9.

A receipt, in the cursive secretary hand of a clerk, signed by Puttenham (Geo. putenham), for the return by Richard Paulet of ten specified books of Puttenham, on a single page, 22 October 1580.

1580.

Quoted in Willis, with a facsimile, pp. 457-9.

A receipt signed by George Puttenham, for a deed of gift from Richard Paulet dated 10 December 1565(?) for goods and chattels that Puttenham is making over to Sir John Throckmorton, on one page, 2 May 1581.

1581.

Quoted in Willis, p. 459.

Receipt, in a clerk's hand and signed by George Puttenham, for an obligation in paper by Richard Paulet, 24 July 1564.

1564.

Quoted in Willis, p. 459.