United Kingdom, Coventry, Central Library, [none]

Headnote: The Drapers’ Company Ordinances and Account Book

Type: Ordinances and accounts

Date: 1534-1764

Place of production: Coventry

Notes: Although this MS was consulted by Thomas Sharp for his 1825 volume, it survived the 1879 fire that destroyed many of Sharp's notes and manuscript guild records he had worked on. This may be because it was transcribed by Thomas Daffern in the middle of the nineteeth century (after Sharp had used it). The MS appears in a transcript from the middle of the 19th c made by Daffern. The transcript is now Coventry Records Office, Acc 154. The transcript contains 192 leaves. See Ingram, Coventry, p. xlvii. Ends in 1764 according to Ingram, Coventry, p. lxvi. Extracts also survive in pre-war transcriptions printed by Thomas Sharp and M.D. Harris; see Milne, "Early."

Source: W. C. Berwick Sayers, “Britain's Libraries and the War.” The Library Quarterly 14, no. 2 (1944): pp. 95-99; p. 97.

Source 2: T. Sharp, A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry (Coventry, 1825).

Source 3: Reginald W. Ingram, Records of Early English Drama: Coventry (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), Appendix 2.