Cotton MS Titus B IV

Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans fol. 347.

• 1. A treatise entitled, "A reconciliation made between the King and his subjects, touching the demand of his right in old debts, and lands quietly enjoyed time out of mind, &c." 1.
• 2. The oath of the chancellor of the exchequer; with a note of what oaths of other officers of the exchequer are to be found in the Liber ruber Scaccarii. 18. b.
• 3. Table of contents of a book on the exchequer, and the raising of money. 19.
• 4. A list of the treasurers of England, from the conquest to Edward VI. with the dates of their patents. 20.
• 5. Notes about several officers of the exchequer, from the time of Henry III. 33.
• 6. Minutes and copies of orders relating to several officers and affairs of the exchequer, from Henry III, to Edward IV. 36.
• 7. An abstract of some original, relating to the duties of the officers of the exchequer: the beginning wanting. 48.
• 8. A collection out of the books and records of the exchequer, touching the places and authorities of the chancellor and under-treasurer of that court. 53.
• 9. Three artices on the uniting of the court of augmentations and of first fruits and tenths, to the exchequer. 60.
• 10. Touching accounts taken by auditors, and levying of the queen's debts due thereupon. 66.
• 11. What things ought to be certified yearly in the exchequer, out of the chancery. 68.
• 12. Accounts of monies raised for the defence of the kingdom, from Ao 1012 to 1280. (Saxon, Lat. and Eng.) Imperfect. 75.
• 13. An order or patent of Henry III, concerning the mode of proceeding in the exchequer. 77.
• 14. An account of the receipts and payments at the exchequer for one year, 1519 and 1520; laid before Henry VIII. by John Sutton, sub-treasurer. 79.
• 15. Extracts from a record in the exchequer; concerning the appointment and office of the treasurer of the same. (Lat. two copies.) 82.
• 16. An account of aids granted by parliament to Edward III. 85.
• 17. A petition delivered in parliament by the commons of England, against the profuse grants of crown lands, &c. 89.
• 18. Case of the abbot of Ramsay and others, echibited in the exchequer, 1360, 1456. (Fr. and Lat.) 91.
• 19. Notes about contributions to the kings of Spain, France, and England. 94.
• 20. Various notes about abatements, improvements, payments, &c. of the revenue. 96.
• 21. An act of parliament for the resumption of certain offices, 3 Hen. VII; and another for making void certain leases in Wales, II Hen. VII. 101.
• 22. Concerning the office of a supervisor of estates, &c. 105.
• 23. Thomas Denys, to Card. Wolsey; soliciting the office of under-treasurer. July 21. [1528] 107.
• 24. A letter, probably from the Ld. Treasurer, [Ld. Treasurer, deleted, Cromwell] to Mr. Gostwyk; concerning a sum of £.16,032. 16. 8. to be raised on persons who be now reduced to poverty. Oct. 22, 1536. [1535] 106.
• 25. An acknowledgment of Tho. Woley the king's elymosyner, of having received from lady Marg. Pole £1000, for the king's ewry. May 25, 1509. [1513] 108.
• 26. A remembrance of the treasurer of the chamber, [Brian Tuke] to Mr. Cromwell; concerning the manner of his giving in his accounts. [Febr. 1534] 110.
• 27. Articles touching the king's revenues, to be put in execution by the surveyors general. [1523] 112.
• 28. Articles agreed upon by the king and the noblemen in parliament assembled; concerning the inheritance and tenures of lands. (Orig. with the signatures of Henry VIII. and many noblemen.) Nov. 2, 1530. [1529] 114.
• 29. A letter of the K. to a bishop; for an aid against his enemies. (A rough draught, probably of a circular letter.) [{1} Sept. 1522] 120.
• 30. An answer to certain articles propounded for dimishing the charges, and safe answering the revenue of the crown, &c. 1555. 122.
• 31. A short account of the revenue of the crown, Ao 4 Mar. 1556 and 7. 125.
• 32. A paper concerning the crown lands, and other parts of the royal revenue. 1556 and 7. 127.
• 33. A warrant for Q. Mary? for the Marq. of Winchester Ld. treasurer, to deliver certain jewels in the Tower, to Affabell Partridge a jeweller, to be new set. Greenw. July 25, 1554. 130. b.
• 34. A warrant of Q. Mary, for compensations to the officers of the augmentation office. May 4, 1553. 131.
• 35. An account of a subsidy granted to queen Elizabeth by the nobility. 1559. 132.
• 36. A declaration of Tho. Hare, Esq. clerk to the Ld. treasurer, of the receipts and payments of the exchequer, from Michmas. 1567, to Easter 1568. 134.
• 37. Inconveniences as well to the queen, as to the tenants of her dutchy in the county of Norfolk, growing by means of a lease made out of the dutchy court of the green wax of the exchequer. 145.
• 38. Certain orders to be observed in the working of the king's mines in England, undertaken by Joachim Hochsteter a German. (Fr.) [1528] 147.
• 39. An account of exchequer revenues. 1570. 150.
• 40. Another account of the receipt of the exchequer, from Michmas. 1585, to Easter 1586, in Ld. Burleigh's hand. 154.
• 41. An order of the Marq. of Winchester, to the queen's audtors and receivers of lands in Bedfordsh. and Bucks; directing them to take sureties from bailiffs and collectors. (Orig.) June 26, 1567. 155.
• 42. Notes, seemingly of issues from the exchequer, in the times of Mary, Eliz. and James I. 157.
• 43. A commission of Q. Elizabeth, for Nic. Culverwell. Th. Allen, and John Barnes; granting them privileges for the wine and salt trade. 1568. 158.
• 44. A comparison between prices of foreign and English pins. 160.
• 45. An estimate made by Tho. Smith, of all the silver and gold, &c. brought and landed at the queen's warehouse at Deptford. 1586. 161.
• 46. A paper concerning the office of under-treasurer in the exchequer. 163.
• 47. A certificate of Hen. E. of Kent; concerning the loan given by the county of Bedford, and paid March 12, 1588, to the queen's collector. 164.
• 48. Notes concerning things relative to, and improvements to be made in the expenditure of the public money. 165.
• 49. A collection of the queen's reckonings. 167.
• 50. A breviate opening the abuses practised by purveyors and transporters of corn, &c. and how the same may hereafter be reformed. 1593. 169.
• 51. A collection of appointments, warrants for fees, and augmentations thereof; duties, oaths, &c. of divers officers of the exchequer. 170.
• 52. A treatise concerning the office of computations for alienations; with the name of William Lamberd, 1590, prefixed, but dated Feb. 30, 1595. 184.
• 53. An apology for the objections to diminutions of the profits of the great seal of England. May 15, 1595. 203. b.
• 54. Motives for which the fines upon writs of entry of lands (not holden in chief) may be desired in lease, and concerning post fines. 206.
• 55. A note from some account of Robert Dowe collector of the tonnage and poundage in London; concerning certain dues on merchandizes imported from China on account of the E. of Leicester and others? (Lat.) 1582. 208.
• 56. Q. Elizabeth, to the magistrates of Augsburg; on a concern of Dan. Hochsteter, who with others had undertaken the copper mines in England. (Lat.) Hampton-court, Jan. 1577. 209.
• 57. H. (E. of) Pembroke, to the E. of Sussex; president of the council at York; concerning some trespasses in the queen's chase of Cranborn. (Orig.) Ramesbury, Jan. 22, 1570. 210.
• 58. Two exchequer accounts. (Fragments, the latter of Ao 1558.) 212.
• 59. Matter of abuses, public and private. 214.
• 60. Total charge of the queen's great wardrobe, for one year. 215.
• 61. A declaration of the state of the chamber and city of London, &c. 217.
• 62. Two papers, concerning the statute of mortmain, corporations, and halls. 221.
• 63. A table of commodities shipped, and subsidies paid thereon. 1570. 225.
• 64. An account of the salaries of several keepers of royal parks, palaces, &c. in various counties. 227.
• 65. A rough draught of observations, concerning abuses in the office of tellers. 229. b.
• 66. An account of payments to sir Tho. Smythe, sir Tho. Robye, and Hugh Fitzwilliams, ambassadors. 230.
• 67. An account, seemingly of some fees. 231.
• 68. Concerning the duty called Aurum Reginae. 232.
• 69. A deliberation of the Privy Council, addressed to the King; concerning the increase of his revenue. 233.
• 70. Notes concerning the improvement of the king's copyholds. 236.
• 71. Notes of things executed by way of abatement, and increase of the king's revenue. 237.
• 72. A note of misholding the (domain) lands that are prayed in lease. 238.
• 73. John Crotall's memorial to the King, offering to improve the domain; with a revise of articles proposed by him. 240.
• 74. Minutes for a commission to Rauf. Bowes and others, for inquiring into the state of Brauncepeth forest, &c. 242.
• 75. Considerations touching his majesty's present revenue in lands. 244.
• 76. The true cause and remedy of a dangerous consumption in his majesty's revenue; by an exchequer man. 246.
• 77. An account of some inquiries and searches made concerning the royal manors, &c. 250.
• 78. Reasons why Mr.Bingley and Mr. Watson should not intermeddle any more with the payment of bills of exchange, or old debts. 251.
• 79. Imperfections in the order made for dissolving the office of the clerkship of the treasury, and warrants, &c. 1670. 153.
• 80. The return of Ric. Bennett, petty constable of Hugenden, to the warrant of the high constable of Desborowe; concerning the supply of carriages. May 21, 1613. 255.
• 81. An abstract of a survey of the border lands. Dec. 10, 1604. 256.
• 82. The rate of licences and pardons of alienations, and of writs of covenants finable. 257.
• 83. An estimate of the queen's yearly revenue and expenditure, on an average five years. 258.
• 84. A paper in the improvements of forests, parks, and chases. 268.
• 85. Reasons for a project and petition for starch and starch-makers. 269.
• 86. A paper signed Gerson Wilsforde, and intitled "An order for the reformation of his Majesty's accounts, and the more speedy gathering of his revenues, as also to prevent all heedless exhaustment." Aug. 22, 1604. 271.
• 87. Two licences for the exportation of calveskins. 1605, and 1610. 272.
• 88. Proposals of Thomas Garlyn, for the improvement of the revenue: with an order of James I. thereupon. 273.
• 89. A petition of John Dackombe, to the Lords of the Treasury; concerning his office of surveyor of the prince's lands. 274.
• 90. An estimate of the king's yearly charge for his civil list, and some garrisons. 275.
• 91. A short (systematic) view of all such courses as have been practised, and are now projected, for the supply and support of sovereign Majesty in want and extremity. 276.
• 92. A report of Aaron Rathborne, supervisor of the manor of Brancepeth. Nov. 17, 1609. 277.
• 93. A note of several parks within the dutchy of Lancaster, granted by lease. 278.
• 94. Will. Camden, to ........ asserting that there has never been any distinction between the Ld. treasurer of England, and the treasurer of the exchequer. (A draught.) 280. b.
• 95. An abstract of the receipts and payments of James lord Haye, gentleman of his Majesty's robes, from Feb. 6, 1607, to March 25, 1613. 281.
• 96. An abstract of a survey of the border lands. 284.
• 97. Remembrances on lord Haye's account. 285.
• 98. A project for the planting, increase, and preservation of the woods. 289. b.
• 99. A statement of abuses, concerning his Majesty's woods. 291.
• 100. The substance of Gayer's book, concerning the tin causes. 295.
• 101. How to repair the king's estate, and to continue it repaired. 297.
• 102. De terris et possessionibus coronae. 298.
• 103. How the king may have a yearly revenue in a subsidy of tonnage and poundage, amounting to one-third of the wares imported. 300.
• 104. A proposal to the Lords of Council; concerning the reduction of the establishments and fees of surveyors, collectors, &c. (vide infra IV. 109.) 1612. 317.
• 105. Concerning lands whereof the reversion is in his Majesty expectant, upon estates in tail. 319.
• 106. Memoranda how certificates of grants of lands may be obtained. 320.
• 107. Roger E. of Rutland, to James I; claiming the sole government of the forest of Sherwood, which the E. of Shrewsbury attempted to take from him. 321.
• 108. Gilbert Talbot (E. of) Shrewsbury, to sir Tho. Lake; concerning the above dispute with the E. of Rntland. Sheffield lodge, June 24, 1609. 322.
• 109. Robt. Wall, to the E. of Northampton, Ld. privy seal; concerning the reduction of fees and offices: to the same purport as IV. 104. July 12, 1612. 323.
• 110. An abstract of all his Majesty's expenses for one half year, ending March 25, 1612; drawn out by Edw. Wardour, clerk of the pells. 326.
• 111. Divers things which should be done and reformed in the exchequer. 330.
• 112. A short view of such courses as the kings of England have used to raise money, men, or provisions; gathered out of ancient records. 333.
• 113. A statement of the manner in which Parliament granted £.50,000 to K. Edward the IIId, by an assessment of £.5. 16. per parish. 1372. 335.
• 114. "A commission of Charles I, for levying moneys for the K. of Subsidy-men, after the rate of 13s. 4d. per pound in goods, and the whole for lands." Sept. 1626. 338.
• 115. Instructions to the commissioners for the above levy of money. 341.