Anthony Roll

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The Mary Rose in the Anthony Roll
The Jesus of Lübeck (1546)

The Anthony Roll is an illustrated English fleet register that was created during the reign of Henry VIII .

The Anthony Roll is named after its creator, Anthony Anthony, an officer of the witness office . He had drawings made of the king's fifty-eight warships . The complete directory included three vellum scrolls, which were completed in 1546 and presented to Heinrich.

In the 17th century, Charles II gave two of the scrolls to Samuel Pepy , who had them cut up and bound into a book . It is currently in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge .

The third roll remained in its original condition. Lady Mary Fox sold it to the British Museum in the 19th century , from which it later moved to the British Library , where it is now kept.

The first part contains the Jesus of Lubeck also figure one at the Travelodge built Carrack , by Henry VIII. Of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck for the Royal Navy was purchased and was chartered later Queen Elizabeth I for the Atlantic slave trade. The Jesus von Lübeck was lost as the flagship of the privateer John Hawkins in clashes with the Spaniards in the port of San Juan de Ulúa in Mexico.

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