The records are particulars of account of sheriffs, escheators, and mayors for lands resumed under the various acts of Resumption passed by the parliaments of Henry VI between 1450 and 1456. Also included are a few inquisitions of the reign of Henry IV, taken in consequence of the act of resumption passed in the Coventry parliament of 1404.
This genuine sub series arises from a particular administrative experiment which lasted only a short span of time. Writs of resumption, giving rise to the seizures consequent on the first of the acts, form a separate sub-series within the series of returnable writs of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, E 383, although since no files survive intact they were recognised at too late a stage in the sorting process of those writ files to be separated out and created as a entity in their own right. It is unclear whether the particulars of account in E 101 are records of the King's Remembrancer or of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, although the latter seems more likely.