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D. Exchequer. (C/. pt. i, ch. iii.) 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



The greater part of the material dealing with the work of 

 the exchequer is, of course, preserved in the exchequer; but 

 there are some important documents connected with exchequer 

 processes that appear among chancery enrollments. Examples 

 of these are the writs for the payment of the justices' wages 

 on the Close Rolls ; commissions to collectors of the subsidy, 

 occasionally on the Patent Rolls, regularly on the Fine Rolls; 

 special commissions of investigation as to arrears of penalties 

 or as to instances of peculation, and special grants disposing 

 of the penalties, on the Patent Rolls. Many of these chancery 

 enrollments are, however, duplicated in that branch of ex- 

 chequer enrollments known as Originalia which for conveni- 

 ence I included under "Chancery;" cf. app., 19. 



The main classes into which the exchequer material is divided 

 are : the Memoranda Rolls, the Placita de Scaccario, Accounts, 

 both original and enrolled, and the records of the exchequer 

 of Receipt. 



Memoranda Rolls of the two Remembrancers, the King's and 

 the Lord Treasurer's. 



The contents of these rolls have been described by Madox, 

 in Hist, of Exchequer, by Scargill-Bird, op. cit., and by Gross 

 in his summaries, op. cit. For this decade there is nothing in 

 print except a few summarized selections in Jones' Index to the 

 Originalia and the Memoranda. 



In my search through these two series of rolls from 23 Edw. 

 Ill to 35 Edw. Ill, I made an attempt to note all references 

 to the statutes of labourers; but the rolls are so voluminous 

 and the amount of material on the statutes so great that my 

 search cannot be called exhaustive. 



The entries having to do with the statutes are of many kinds : 

 commissions to the collectors of the subsidy, and additional 

 instructions to them ; innumerable writs of the great seal and 



