Catalogue description Duchy of Lancaster: Various Accounts

The various accounts in this series record the income and expenditure of the Duchy of Lancaster over seven centuries.

They have been divided up in the following way:

• household and wardrobe accounts of the earls and dukes of Lancaster, 1284-1454;
• accounts of the town and marches of Calais, 1492-1503;
• receiver generals' accounts, 1376-1826;
• states of revenue and arrears, 1504-1535;
• views of ministers' accounts, 1505-1541;
• annuities and fines, c1399-1793;
• ministers' arrears, charges and accounts, c1272-c1757;
• declared accounts, 1729-1865;
• states of revenue, 1717-1848;
• postfines and green wax, 1793-1854;
• particular accounts, 1641-1857;
• writs of supersedeas for 1657.

Duchy of Lancaster, 1399-

In 1868 Duchy of Lancaster