 The Anthony Roll is a record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s , named after its creator , Anthony Anthony . It originally consisted of three rolls of vellum , depicting 58 naval vessels along with information on their size , crew , armament , and basic equipment . The rolls were presented to King Henry VIII in 1546 , and were kept in the royal library . In 1680 Charles II gave two of the rolls to Samuel Pepys , who had them cut up and bound as a single volume book , which is now in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College , Cambridge . The third roll remained in the royal collection until it was given by William IV to his daughter , Mary Fox , who sold it to the British Museum in 1858 ; it is now owned by the British Library . 
