Add MS 6176

A thin volume of miscellaneous collections in folio, ff. 40, probably made by an officer of the Exchequer, temp. Charles II, containing:

1. Memoranda relative to the business, etc., of the King’s Remembrancer’s Office, Exchequer, temp. Elizabeth and James I. f. 1.

2. Order of the Court of Exchequer, concerning constats to be made out of the rolls of the pells, for payments of all sums into the Court of Receipt. Term. Mich. 9 Nov 34 Elizabeth. f. 2.

3. Charge, or oath, administered to certain persons appointed to inquire respecting fees in the Court of Exchequer. f. 3.

4. ‘Copye of the Heads delivered Mr. Attorney by the Tellers, concerninge the Privye Seale to Sr. David Conningham, for the receipt of Severall monies for the great Leavell.’ Ib.

5. Warrant from James Ley, Earl of Marleburgh, Lord Treasurer, to Sir Edward Wardour, knight, clerk of the pells, to reserve upon a distinct account all such monies as were raised by the sale of the King’s lands or by the loans in hand (not dated). f. 4.

6. Letter from Sir Lionel Cranfield, and f. Brooke, to Sir Robert Pye, knight, Auditor of the Exchequer, to make stay of payment of all fees, anmuties and pensions, payable in the Receipt of the Exchequer, or Courts of Records. 2 Oct 1621. Ib.

7. Sacramentum Numbratorum (Recept. Scaccarii). f. 4b.

8. Sentence of death given against William Warde, one of the associates of Sir John Oldcastle, convicted of treason, and lollardy. Term. Trin. 3 Henry V. f. 5.

9. Petition of John Wiliams, Bishop of Lincoln, to the King (Charles I) (not dated). Ib.

10. Warrant from Charles I to Mountjoy, Earl of Newport, Master of the Ordnance, and others, to deliver out of the magazine in the Tower of London, the full number of arms for 10,000 men, horse and foot (not dated). f. 5b.

11. Arms, and ammunition, delivered to Lord Ettrick, Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh, by Captain Henry Leigh, 17 Feb 1639, with the receipt for the same. f. 6.

12. Touching the charge of the General of the Artillery in Flanders. f. 6b.

13. Minute of a sitting of the commissioners for defective titles, 20 Feb 1639, relative to the manor, or prebend, called ‘the Goulden Prebend.’ County Dorset. f. 9.

14. Petition to King Charles I, against the war with Scotland, the increase of popery, the levying of ship-money, the intermission of Parliament, etc. f. 10.

15. Petition to the King from the committee of the late Parliament, and others of his subjects of Scotland, with the Majesty’s answer, dated ‘at the Court at Yorke, 5 Sept 1640.’ f. 10b.

16. Arguments against the levying of scutage. f. 11.

17. The reply to Lanericke (containing the demands of the Scottish lords). Leager at Newcastle, 8 Sept 1640. f. 11b.

18. ‘His Mats Aunsweare’ by Lanericke. f. 12.

19. The King’s speech at Yorke. 24 Sept 1640. f. 12b.

20. Short letter relative to the taking of Edinburgh Castle. 25 Sept 1640. f. 13.

21. Quatuor numeratores Recept. Scaccarii, cum diebus admission ut patel in Magno Rotulo in Recept. Scacc. reman (scil. à 10 Oct 10 Henrici IV ad 9 Maii 12 Car. I). f. 14.

22. The King’s speech in Parliament. 3 Nov 1640. f. 15.

23. Petition to the King from the officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer, against the erection of a new office of receiver general of penalties and forfeitures by recusants (not dated). f. 16.

24. Certificate to the Privy Council, concerning a trial of the swords kept in the Office of the Armoury in the Tower of London. Signed ‘W. Balfour, John Langor, J. Wemys.’ (Dec 1640). f. 16b.

25. Order of the Privy Council to Sir James Balfour, knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, to make a trial of the swords in the Armoury in the Tower. 21 Oct 1640. f. 17.

26. Petition of Benjamin Stone, the King’s sword blade maker, to the Privy Council, relative to the furnishing of 20,000 French swords not fit for the King’s service, by Captain Legge, and others. f. 17b.

27. Form of a letter of attorney. 3 Aug 1641. f. 18.

28. Forms of a statute staple and statute serchant. (Latin). f. 18b.

29. Form of a Bill of discovery to clear a title. f. 19.

30. Common form of the beginning and ending of an answer in Chancery. f. 20.

31. Form of acknowledgement of livery and seisin. Ib.

32. ‘Monneyes disbursed for surveying the Magazines att Hull, in Jan and Feb 1660.’ f. 21.

33. Petition from Sir Robert Croke, knight, Clerk of the Pope, to King Charles II, concerning the accounts of his office, with a reference of the contents to the Lord Chancellor, and others. 7 June 1661. f. 21b.

34. Grant to Sir Ralph Fane, baronet, of the site of the college, or chapel, of St. Stephen, Westminster, with the church, houses, etc., belonging to the same. Hennyngham Castle, 22 Jul 4 Edward VI. (Latin). f. 22.

35. Note of the grant of the said college and appurtenances to Sir John Gates, knight, 6 Edward VI, to Lord Hastings of Loughborrow, temp. Elizabeth, and its appropriation as the office of the Auditor of the Exchequer. ff. 22b, 23.

36. Note Admissionum Rob. Ficke et Arthuri Squibb, gen. ad officium numeratorum Recept. Scacc. 10 Maii 1571 et 10 Jul 1624. f. 23.

37. Order from William Legge, Master of the Armoury in the Tower, that Thomas Cox, one of the armourers should not be called on to watch or ward, or perform any other extraordinary services. 1661. f. 23b.

38. Warrant from the Earl of Southampton to Sir Robert Pye, knight, Auditor of the Exchequer, to draw bills for the payment of 300 £ to William Legge, esquire, Master of the Armoury, for discharge of wages, etc., and repairing the armour in the Tower, Hampton Court, Windsor Castle, Greenwich, Westminster, Portsmouth, and Woolwich. Southton House, 4 March 1661. f. 24.

39. Copy out of the Court Baron for the admittance of a tenant under age in the manor of Battersey. 2 Apr 1657. Ib.

40. Forma Swisum-Redditionis Litterarum Patentium in Cancellaria quilars Ricardus Norton, arm. sursum-reddidit annualem redditum 31. 2. 11. ex Maneriis de Wordleham alias East Wordleham, et West Wordleham, in Co. Sutht. et officium custodis Forestæ et Chaceæ de Ayleshott et Woolmor. Jun 1662. f. 24b.

41. Warrant under the sign manual of Charles II, to Thomas, Earl of Southampton, High Treasurer, to pay 30 £ to Joane Hardy, in full satisfaction of a debt due to her late husband as Master Gunner in the King’s service beyond the seas. 31 March 1662. f. 25.

42. Warrant from the Earl of Southampton to Sir Robert Pye, Auditor of the Exchequer, to draw an order for payment of the above 30 £ to Joane Hardy. Southampton House, 21 Apr 1663. Ib.

43. Extracta Placitorum coram Rege in Thesaur. Recept. Scacc. de term. Pasch. 8 Edwardi III et term. Hill 10 Edwardi III. f. 25b.

44. Pellis Exitus de term. Mich. ao. 11 Edward III de solution 20 £ Nicholao Loup, de dono Regis. f. 26.

45. Form of writ of priviledge allowed in Chancery inter Willielmi Nott. quer. Et Ricardi Hutton, def. 28 Jan 17 Elizabeth. Ib.

46. Warrant from the Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer, to remove the Exchequer from Nonsuch to Westminster. Oxford, 5 Jan 1665. Ib.

47. ‘Orders concerned and agreed on by the Lords and other Comissiors. For the Treasurie at Whitehall the XXIIIIth of July.’ f. 27.

48. Remonstrance of the officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer to James Ley, Earl of Marleburgh, Lord High Treasurer, ao. 1625. f. 28.

49. ‘Officers of Thordnaunce, with theire allowances, before ye full and perfect Creacõn of ye same office by Patent,’ from the 14 Henry VIII to 1634. Apparently imperfect at the end. ff. 29-39b.

50. Memorandum touching the disclaiming of Thomas Loupe of Hewberie, at Doncaster. 13 Sept 1623. f. 40b.