Council documents in E 101 comprise two main elements. The first is accounts, including and subsidiary documents, for the payment of wages to individual councillors for their attendance. These documents range in date between the reign of Edward III and that of Henry VI. The second element comprises accounts, with subsidiary documents, for the formal breakfasts of the council. These range in date between the latter part of the reign of Edward III and that of Henry VIII; the series is continued to the reign of Charles I in E 407/51-55.
Two late additions to the class are misplaced within the Council sequence. E 101/613/12, a warrant for payment to Thomas Locke, keeper of the council chests, for his expenditure on stationery for the use of the Privy Council, 1618, is a document subsidiary to accounts of the Treasurer of the King's Chamber. E 101/613/13 is a file of petitions and receipts for domestic expenses and wages of individual councillors of the council in the Marches of Wales, an organisation wholly separate from that of the King's Council, Court of Star Chamber, or Privy Council. Such expenses were normally paid out of the revenues of the Receiver for North Wales, and the documents now in E 101 are therefore strays from the archives of the Auditors of the Land Revenue (LR).
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