Issue roll of Thomas de Brantingham, bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, containing payments made out of His Majesty's revenue in the 44th year of King Edward III A.D. 1370 / Translated from the original roll now remaining in the ancient Pell office, in the custody of the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, bart. By Frederick Devon.
- Great Britain. Exchequer
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Issue roll of Thomas de Brantingham, bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, containing payments made out of His Majesty's revenue in the 44th year of King Edward III A.D. 1370 / Translated from the original roll now remaining in the ancient Pell office, in the custody of the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, bart. By Frederick Devon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![for wages, annuities, rewards to sheriffs, collectors, comptrollers, keepers of the wardrobe, and all other officers and ministers of the Crown, whose names are given, with short extracts from their patents. [This book is a beautiful specimen of the hand-writing of the time.] A Roll containing an establishment for Ireland in 1608, consisting of the different officers and forces, with their allowances by the day, month, and year, viz. To the Lord Deputy, Treasurer at War, Marshall, Master of the Ordnance, &c.. Physician, Surgeon, Officers provincial for Lynster, Munster, Connaught, and Ulster, &c. There are also some hundred books of issues, orders, warrants, assignments, loans, subscriptions for raising two millions, in 1698, Exchequer bills, pensions, &c. connected with money transactions of the Exchequer, too numerous, and in too great confusion, for any account of them to be inserted. Having now endeavoured to trace the history, and show the circumstances under which this collection of Records was formed, and also explained the reasons why they have not before been made known to the public, it may be considered necessary to give some account of their contents; but as this cannot be fully and satisfactorily accomplished for the reasons before stated, (the want of time and arrangement,) it has been deemed advisable to submit only the few following extracts, hastily gleaned from the rolls already discovered, as the best means of communicating some knowledge of the information to be derived from them, and of partially exhibiting the general nature and importance of their contents.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29340202_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
