James Needham's Account Book

Item date: 1539-40
Grant Value: £4,000
Item cost: £63,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2008
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

A 'particular book' of James Nedeham, Clerk and Surveyor of the King's Works, 1539-40, recording detailed accounts for works at Greenwich, Westminster Hall, Windsor Castle, Woking Palace and elsewhere. The book joins the eleven other Nedeham 'particular books' held by the Bodleian Library, and completes a series now extending from 1532-43.

Item Provenance
The Foljambe Library, Osberton Hall, Nottinghamshire; Christie's, 30 April 2008, lot 169