Note 204 — II THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD

Nicholas, Eliz. i. 264, printed the accounts of Edmund Downing as executor to John Tamworth for 1559-69 from the audited copy in Harleian Rolls, A. A. 23. Copies are also in the Pipe Office Declared Accounts, 2791, and the Audit Office Declared Accounts, 2021, 1. No later Elizabethan Privy Purse Accounts are known, but it appears from the lists of New Year gifts for 1561, 1578, 1579, 1589, and 1600 (Nichols, Eliz. i. 108; ii. 65, 249; iii. 1, 445) that Henry Sackford succeeded John Tamworth as custodian of gifts given in cash, and he is described as Keeper at Elizabeth's death (S. P. D. Jac. I, vi. 2). His successor was Sir George Home, afterwards (1605) Earl of Dunbar (S. P. D. Docquet of 17 May 1603). Jacobean accounts for 1603-5 are in Pipe Office Declared Accounts, 2792, and in Audit Office Declared Accounts, 2021. Some extracts are in Cunningham, xviii. In 1617 (Abstract, 6) the Privy Purse disposed of £5,000 and an additional £1,100 from New Year gifts.