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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    Berwick; Lord Peter de Sabaudia; Lord Edmund, the King’s brother, and his sons Thomas1 and Henry, with a great retinue ; Edward, son of the King of Scotland ; Lady Agnes de Valencia; the Prior of Merton; Lord and Lady de Vescy; the Earl of Lincoln and his four knights; the wife of Walter de Bello Campo and her retinue; the Abbess of Ambresbury, with her nuns, attended by a great retinue; the Lord the King, with many strangers to hunt in Ascheby Forest, who was also attended by his steward and several of his household ; the Earl of Bar and Lord John de Brabant, with a numerous suite; Thomas of Lancaster and Henry his brother; the King’s daughter,2 attended by monks, and the whole convent. The Prince is therein stated to have heard mass at Salisbury, after which ceremony the Abbot, Canons, and many of the choir dined with him. Another household Roll, but without date, is also referred to; this, in addition to similar information found in the before- mentioned Roll, also furnishes the prices of provisions supplied. Some few only, by way of example, are inserted, showing at this date that a goose3 was worth 4\d.; a capon, %\d.\ one hundred eggs. Id.; a woodcock, 1 ^d.; a pound of tallow candles, 2Jd.; and a lamprey appears to have obtained the enormous and disproportionate price of 5s. 9%d. A payment of 20,000/., in part of 160,000 livres of 1 Probably the same that are subsequently called Thomas of Lancaster, and Henry his brother. a This was Mary, King Edward IBt’3 sixth daughter by his wife Eleanor, who at ten years of age was made a nun in the monastery of Ambresbury, at the instance of Queen Eleanor, her grandmother; she lived, died, and was buried there. a See page 113. c 2