Catalogue description Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Original Decrees Files

The series is incomplete.

Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries individual decrees continue to show evidence of correction and amendment. They were annotated by the clerk for the party or his agent with a note of entry and copy, and sometimes with an indication of fees paid.

They were subsequently entered in the entry books of decrees in E 126

This series continues the series of original and copy decrees of the Court of Exchequer begun in E 128

Contemporary index books survive from 1677 in IND 1/16862-16866. Before 1677 the calendars and other means of reference to the entry books of decrees can be used as a means of reference to decrees registered, and the files searched speculatively: a task made easier in that the sequence of entry follows the file order.