Catalogue description Account Book of the Court of Augmentations (with index tags), arranged in the following...

Account Book of the Court of Augmentations (with index tags), arranged in the following sections: Payments of Pensions; Annuities of Monasteries; Annuities by the King (including wages and diets); Fees of Officers; Decrees; Warrants by theCouncil; the King's Majesty's Warrants. Payments made by virtue of the King's Majesty's Warrants include, victuals for ships, ordnance, rewards to foreign visitors, to Sir Richard Gresham for brogging, "for pains ofcertain Portingales for 22 masts with the freight of the same", "for his pains in searching for jewels at St David's shrine in Wales", for the hire of hackney horses at the coming of the Admiral of France, for reparations done about the Tower Wharf, for the conveyance of the Egyptians out of the realm, for reparations at the Banqueting House at Greenwich and the manor there at the coming of the French Admiral. Payments made by Warrant from the Chancellor and Council of the Court of Augmentations include, "for the survey of Chantries, Colleges and such other! This section is followed by "money repaid to divers and sundry persons for so much by them delivered to the King's use by way of loan towards the furniture of his wars on his voyage taken into France, by virtue of letters missive addressed from his highness under his signet in 37 Henry VIII.' 113 folios. 37-38 Henry VIII