A. D. 1421, 635 



The custody of the castle of Frounsake - ^666 13 4 



Salaries of the treasurer, keeper of the privy seal, 

 judges, barons of exchequer, and 

 and other officers of the court 3,002 1 7 6 



of the officers of the customs, &c. 547 O O 



of dukes, carls, knights, esquires, abbess 



ofShene, &c. - - - 7,751 12 7i 



Annuities charged on the customs - 4,374 4 3 



Salariesofofficersofthecustomsinthe several ports* 274 3 4 



Total expenditure - f 52,235 16 10; 



Surplus of revenue _ _ _ _ _ ^3,507 13 Hi 



out of which were to be defrayed the charges of 



The king's and queen's houfehold and wardrobe (' camera — hofpitio 



' gardei'oba') ; The king's works, the new tower at Portfmouth — clerk 

 of the king's fhips — the king's lions and the conftable of the Tower — 

 artillery — the king's prifoners — ambafladors — meffengers, parchment, 

 &c the duchefs of Holland. 



There remained unprovided for 

 Old debts for Harfleur and Calais — the king's wardrobe, and clerks of 

 the king's fhips and works — arrears to annuitants — debts of King Henry 

 IV, and of Henry V when prince of Wales. \_Fadera, V. x, p. 113, ex 

 MS. Bib. Cott. Cleop. F iii.] 



May — It being cuflomary to build the keels, ufed at Newcaflle for 

 carrying coals onboard the fhips, larger than the ftandard meafure of 

 twenty chaldrons, in order to evade part of the duty of two pennies, 

 payable by all perfons not free of Newcaftle, it was enaded, that their 

 burthen fhould be meafured and marked by commiflioners appointed 

 by the king %. {Acts 9 Hen. V^Jlat. i, c. 10.] 



Notwithflanding the late law againfl vitiating the money, it was now 

 in fo bad a flate, that the parliament cnaded, that the gold money of 

 England fhould only be taken by weight. And the people were ordered 

 to carry their light and vitiated money to the tower to be recoined, the 

 king, in confideration of their lofs, foregoing the emolument due to him 

 upon the coinage ||. [r. n.] 



May 29"^ — Peace being made with the king of France (May 21"), it 

 was immediately followed by a reconciliation with the Genoefe, and by 



Gibrahars, Calais and Berwick, appear to have % The parliament feem to have known nothing 

 coll almoil fixteen times as much as the whole of an order fimilar to this aft in the reign of Rich- 

 kingdom of Ireland. ard II. See above, p. 589. 



* As the officers miift have been very numer- || Stow \Survey of Lond'jn,p. 85] fays, that the 



ous, this very fmall amount of all their falaries ac- nobles were taken this year in payment of the flf- 



counts for the frequent complaints of their extor- teenth granted to the king at the full value of <^?, 



tions. if they were worth 5/8. That regulation was 



f In this account we find the very ufual difa- probably fubfcqucnt to the diminution of the mo- 



grecmcnt between the totals and the particular ney, for which Ice the appendix, 

 numbers : but, as it is impofiible to trace the error, 

 wc mull take them as they Hand in the record. 



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