Issues of the exchequer; being a collection of payments made out of His Majesty's revenue, from King Henry III to King Henry VI inclusive / With an appendix. Extracted and translated from the original rolls of the ancient Pell office. By Frederick Devon.

  • Great Britain. Exchequer.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Issues of the exchequer; being a collection of payments made out of His Majesty's revenue, from King Henry III to King Henry VI inclusive / With an appendix. Extracted and translated from the original rolls of the ancient Pell office. By Frederick Devon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    repairing the baths there, forming a drain from the King’s great kitchen to the Thames, and newly con- structing another chamber over the Thames ; with a de- scription of the ornamental work, decorations, &c., done to the same palace, including a payment to Master Wil- liam,1 the painter, for designing the picture of Jesse on the mantelpiece of the chimney, and who is stated to have cleaned and restored the painted walls of the King’s chamber. This Roll also furnishes a most minute ac- count of the nature and quality of the stone and other materials used, specifying from whence they were ob- tained ; the names and class of workmen employed, the rate of wages paid to each, with the time they were en- gaged upon the work, and a description is added of the workmen’s tools, hammers, planks, laths, tiles, nails, and implements used. A few extracts only are given from a household Roll2 of the forty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry III., being an account of the expenses during the year he went to Paris to settle a treaty with the French King : for a more detailed account of this Roll the reader is referred to the note below. EDWARD I. In the Issue Roll of the first year of this monarch, frequent mention is made of the death of his father. King Henry III., who is stated, in a payment made to 1 See page 64. 2 See page 74. 3 See note at page 77 of this volume, and page xvi of Introduction tolssue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, by the Editor.