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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer

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Reference E 163
Title Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer
Date c1154-c1901
Description

A series of documents of considerable importance but little coherence.

It includes fragments of early Exchequer enrolments; writs, returns, and recorda, not only of the several departments of the Exchequer, but also of the common law; documents subsidiary to accounts and the accounting process, and file strays; an early 'census' for Ealing, Middx; documents relating to taxation, debt, and enquiries into fees; registers, inventories, precedents and formularies of the Exchequer and other courts; strays from deposited archives, such as those of religious houses after dissolution; petitions, warrants, agenda and other documents of the King's and minor royal councils, and occasionally of parliament; and also a collection of manuscript and printed fragments recovered from book bindings and covers.
Related material

See also LR 2

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

English

Latin
Physical description 29 files, rolls and volumes
Custodial history The records in this series are drawn from the miscellanea of all parts of the Exchequer, including the offices of the King's Remembrancer and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer; the Pipe Office; the Exchequer of Pleas; the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer; the General Surveyors; the Augmentation Office (including records of the queens' councils, of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the councils of princes of Wales); the Auditors of the Land Revenue; the King's council; the Court of Star Chamber; and the courts of common law.
Unpublished finding aids

A card index to the series, arranged by name and subject but including a selective index of place names and covering only part of the series, is available as an orderable document E 163/29/16

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