Documents in this series are drawn from both records found among those of the King's Remembrancer, and from those anciently kept in the Treasury of the Receipt. The latter often bear contemporary endorsement, as well as an archival stamp of the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and properly belong with the 'Scots Documents' in E 39. They include an indenture listing documents, mostly accounts, found in Edinburgh Castle and delivered to Hugh de Cressingham, treasurer of Scotland, at Berwick in 1296.
Most of the documents in E 101/331 date from the period at which Edward I actively asserted his suzerainty following the deposition as king of John Balliol. They include inquisitions and accounts concerning escheats, or on lands of men who had come into the king's peace; and enquiries made consequent on petitions to Edward I as suzerain. The account of Walter de Cambhow as keeper of Fife was clearly made by reason of the delegation of the keepership made in the parliament at Lanark by John Balliol as king of Scotland. The account, however, was rendered to the English Exchequer and is enrolled on the Pipe Roll of 24 Edward I. An inquisition before Thomas de Boyvill, clerk of the Exchequer, concerning the lands of John Balliol and his adherents in the county of Derby is perhaps best seen as typical of documents more usually placed in E 142.
There are a few accounts of divers sheriffs, bailiffs, and others, Edward I-Edward III. Accounts are both of an essentially civil administration, including receipts from rents, escheats, fines, and customs, including detailed particulars of customs accounts, with miscellaneous expenditure including some expenses of war; and entirely military, recording the payment of soldiers' wages, generally in summary form. E 101/331/19, the controlment of the account of the chamberlain of Scotland 8 Edward II, records funding from the Exchequer, receipts of victuals from divers English sheriffs; and expenditure which includes in some detail the maintenance, garrisoning and victualling of Berwick, as well as more mundane matters. E 101/331/113 is the finely written engrossment, in register form, of the controlment of the account of James de Dalilegh and John de Westone, the clerks charged with making an extent of all the king's lands in Scotland; expenses include those of their progress with an armed escort through the realm. A number of documents indicate audit in the Wardrobe, rather than in the Exchequer itself.
Includes a number of good examples of personal seals, although many documents, formerly sealed, no longer have those seals attached.
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