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Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Miscellaneous Books

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Reference E 36
Title Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Miscellaneous Books
Date Edward I - George II
Description

This series brings together records now bound together in book form which were preserved amongst the records of the Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt.

It contains records covering a number of different subjects. They are listed here in the order that they appear in the list: accounts of the Army, Navy and Ordnance; certificates of musters; books concerning the earldom and duchy of Cornwall; renunciations of papal supremacy; various transcripts; catalogues of deeds; registers of letters, etc. of Edward, Prince of Wales; rentals and surveys; diplomatic documents; treatise and precedent books, etc; Wardrobe and Household accounts; works accounts; wardships; particulars for grants of the possession of colleges and chantries; accounts of the Constable of Windsor Castle; Black Book of the Exchequer; Bishop Stapeldon's Calendar of Treasury documents; Calais Controller's accounts; Liber Memorandorum Camerarii; Registrum Munimentorum; statutes of the Order of St Michael; establishment of the Poor Knights of Windsor; bull of Julius II; notebooks of John Hussye; abbreviation of Domesday Book.

Some of the records in this series have become separated from E 30

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additional finding aid ZBOX 1/55/3

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Physical description 286 volume(s)
Physical condition Some stamped leather bindings, possibly of early sixteenth-century date. The series includes a number of decorations and occasional illuminations of some significance, such as those illustrating the miracles of Edward the Confessor.