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 (L. and I. xxxv. 376, 379, 380, 382, 386, 391, 392, 396, 540). The earliest are described, with extracts, by J. C. Davies, The First Journal of Edward II's Chamber (E. H. R. xxx. 662). (b) Early Tudor Period.

A number of accounts passed from the Augmentation Office to the Exchequer and were amalgamated in 1839 with others from the office of the King's Remembrancer in a series of Exchequer Accounts, Various. Here they are numbered 413 to 427. They are mainly accounts of revenue and subsidiary documents, but a few accounts of payments presented to the Record Office by the Trevelyan family have been added to the series, and with them are listed as Wardrobe and Household Accounts (L. and I. xxxv) some other payment accounts from the Miscellaneous Books of the Treasury of Receipt of the Exchequer, and one from the Miscellaneous Books of the Court of Augmentations. Other payment accounts are in the British Museum and in unofficial collections. It may be the case, as Newton, 359, suggests, that these or some of them were abstracted from the Records by officials of antiquarian tastes, but it must be remembered that duplicates even of audited accounts were often kept by the accountants. These accounts are generally known as The King's Books of Payments. The following can be traced: i. Accounts of John Heron.

Three Books of Payments, for 1505-9, 1509-18, and 1518-21 respectively, with many royal signatures by way of audit, are now in the P. R. O. (Misc. Books of Treasury of Receipt, 214, 215, 216). The contents of the Henry VIII books are abstracted in Brewer, ii. 1441; iii. 1533. There must once have been an earlier book, for Collier, i. 49, 52, 76, gives extracts from one for 1492-1505, which he describes as 'formerly in the Chapter-house, Westminster', as well as from the three now extant, which he describes as 'in the Chapter-house'. Possibly this was ''Addl. MS.'' 21480, which has been traced back (Newton, 359) through the hands of Craven Ord (a friend of Collier) and Thomas Astle to those of Peter Le Neve, a Deputy-Chamberlain of the Exchequer. But ''Addl. MS. 21481, which also came from Le Neve, is a duplicate of the R. O. books for 1505-18, and therefore Addl. MS.'' 21480 may only have been a duplicate of the missing volume. Both the ''Addl. MSS.'' contain the royal signatures. Craven Ord made some extracts which are now ''Addl. MSS. 7099, 7100, and to these those supplied by Astle to R. Henry, History of Great Britain, vi (1793), app., and those in S. Bentley, Excerpta Historica'' (1831), 85, owe their origin. Collier, i. 49, also cites a small book for 1501-2 kept (perhaps under Heron) by one Robert Fowler, which refers to parallel payments made by Thomas Trollop. ii. Accounts of Brian Tuke.

A book signed monthly by Henry VIII, with some entries from 31 Dec. 1528 to 30 June 1529, but mainly covering the period from 17 Nov. 1529 to 29 Dec. 1532, was printed by N. H. Nicolas from a MS.