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of the treasurer directed to the various officials concerned 

 with the statutes, both as to the proper levying and final dis- 

 position of the penalties and as to the payment of the justices' 

 salaries ; statements as to the penalties in " states and views 

 of accounts " both of sheriffs and of collectors ; numerous 

 actions brought by the exchequer against all these officials for 

 failure to do their duty in regard to the penalties ; and finally 

 the claims of the lords of franchises. These latter are recorded 

 in great detail and are important for many reasons, and more 

 especially because they often include long schedules of accounts 

 of the penalties imposed under the statutes, entered on separate 

 membranes, and attached to the Memoranda Rolls. 



It is essential to remember in using this material that ac- 

 cording to the exchequer's method of computation of dates 

 for Edward's reign Michaelmas term precedes Easter term; 

 so that e. g., Mich. 29th year on the Memoranda Rolls is really 

 only Mich. 28th year.^ 



Exchequer Proceedings subsidiary to the Memoranda Rolls. 



Cf. Scargill-Bird, op. cif., 213. This series has not been in- 

 cluded in my search. 



Placita de Scaccario. 



The List of Plea Rolls includes merely a catalogue of these, 

 classified by regnal year and law term. The roll for the 34th 

 year is omitted from the printed list ; by accident I found it 

 misplaced among the Memoranda Rolls, K. R. It has now 

 been transferred to its proper place, as 82a. My examination 

 has covered only a few of these rolls ; these few contained 

 many important proceedings connected with the levying of the 

 penalties under the statutes. 



Accounts, original and enrolled. 



A distinction between these two types of accounts, 

 important for purposes of investigation, is that the 



' Cf. Ramsay, " Expenditure of Edw. Ill " in Antiquary, i, 156. 



