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Catalogue description Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Brevia Baronibus files
| Reference: | E 208 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Brevia Baronibus files |
| Description: |
This series consists of writs sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer under the great and privy seals sending or requiring information, giving general administrative orders, or directing them to grant discharge of an account or particular debt or debtor. The series contains some obvious strays, including a bundle of writs addressed to escheators, and two bundles which concern the customs, with attached writs and schedules. The writs are enrolled on the Brevia directa section of the King's Remembrancer's memoranda rolls: E 159 The text of individual warrants may be enrolled in the memoranda rolls of either the Lord Treasurer's (E 368) or the King's Remembrancer. |
| Date: | c1216-c1727 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Physical description: | 29 bundle(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The enrolment of writs and warrants sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer was, by the Cowick ordinances (1323), the sole responsiblity of the King's Remembrancer, although the business to which the writs related might be conducted on either the Lord Treasurer's or the King's Remembrancer's side. |
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