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A09904	Direction for search of records remaining in the chancerie. Tower. Exchequer, with the limnes thereof viz. The Kings remembrancer. Lord Treasurers remembrancer. Clarke of the Extreats. Pipe. Auditors. The first fruits. Augmentation of the reuenue. Kings Bench. Common Pleas. Records of courts Christian. For the clearing of all such titles, and questions, as the same may concerne. With the accustomed fees of search: and diuerse necessarie obseruations. Cui author Thomas Powell, Londino-Cambrensis.	Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?	1622 (1622)	STC 20166; ESTC S115034	19,939	102

vnder fiue pounds per annum past in Reuersion Or past with other things which make the Booke exceed fiue pounds per annum Then they passe vnder the Great Scale and are to be found in the Chancerie vt supra All Leases and Grants wherein there is Homage or Fealtie or such like seruice reserued to the King The Roll called the Great Roll which hee engrosseth And herein he conueyeth yearely all Vicouncels and Fermes and the arrerages thereof And all Debts due to the King are in the said Great Roll contayned Also here are All such Awards as the Barons make vpon any Examinations of any charging or discharging them of Sherifes Escheators Stewards Baylifes All summes of Money by him cast vp such as the foresaid Accomptants shall be charged withall Either By the Foreigne Opposer of Greene Waxe Or The Auditor for Foreigne Accompts Here are also All Grants wherein the King may haue either Reuersion or Rent Which with diuers other things hee taketh out of the Originall of Chancerie and enters the same with most of his other Businesses in the Roll called the Great Roll before mentioned Also here are All Fines for not acknowledging of Homage or Reliefe Extracted from the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer All Amerciaments set vpon Accomptants for not keeping their dayes prefixed or for what cause soeuer All Debts recouered for the King which hee extracts from the Kings Remembrancer with the Fines and Amerciaments of any Accomptants there All Duties for Vacation of Bishoprickes and the like Debts And all other Fermes and Debts for which Processe are awarded by the Barons of the Court. All Allowances Petitions Charges Accompts Discharges of Collectors and Accomptants generally as the Court doth award them All the Kings Household Expences and other Foreigne Accompts All Accompts of the Kings Reuenues c. These With some other Records of diuers natures not so proper or natiue to this Office as the former being brought hither at some times for speciall seruice of the King are here likewise And briefely hence issue as from a Pipe all Processe whereby the King recouereth or extracteth any thing due vnto him or dischargeth the same THE AVDITORS THE Auditors are of two sorts and so accordingly are the Records remayning with them differing respectiuely 1. The one for the Kings Reuenues 2. The other for the Prest Accompts The Auditors for the Reuenues are likewise of two sorts 1. The one for his certaine Shires Accompts proper and foreigne of all Accomptants to the King Accompts referred vnto him by the Barons 2. The other selected by his Maiesties Commissioners to bee Clarke vnto them when they haue especiall Commission for the letting selling setting of any his Maiesties Lands or Possessions and hee is called Auditor of the Rates AVDITOR OF THE REVENVE WIth the Auditor of the Reuenue are these Records following viz. All the Accompts of the Reuenue of All the Kings Honours Mannors Lands Tenements in their seuerall Circuits Shewing 1. What Lands euery Tenant holdeth 2. What Rent euery Tenant payeth 3. What Seruice the Tenant oweth in some cases 4. What the cleare value of the Lands held is 5. What Reprisals Perquisus c. 6. What Allowances and Fees issuing Distinguishing 7. The Possessions and the Demesnes from the rest c. 8. The Freehold from the Customarie Charging and discharging 9. The Tenants who are to pay the Rent 10. The Receiuers and Baylifes who collect the same Next are in his custodie such Leases as wherein there is reserued to his Maiestie either Rent or Seruice Next are with him such Leases or Grants as whereby the King is to pay Fee to the Leasee or Grantee by the hands of his generall Receiuer of the Countie c. Next here are the Accompts of All Customers Escheators Receiuers generall and particular Formors Lastly here are in this Office Diuerse Rentalls Leidgers Surueyes c. For Lands in their Shires at least And most of these last Records haue come to their hands since the dissolution of the Monastique Houses and for the most part vpon occasion of especiall seruice for the Crowne c. And diuers of the said Records no doubt haue beene carryed from this Office by the Executors Friends and Clarkes of Auditors deceased of which the King and his subiects might haue excellent vse and benefit THE AVDITOR OF THE RATES WIth this Auditor of the Rates are 1. The Grants of what is sold let or set by the Commissioners 2. The Rates of the same OBSERVATION SO that it is not sufficient for you to search the proper Auditor for the Shire for discouerie of any thing past but you must further cleare the search with this Auditor of the Rates And in some cases you shall not haue full satisfaction of the passing of some things vnlesse you search as lowe as with the Clarke of the Papers of the Signet AVDITOR OF THE PREST THis last Auditor being for the Prest Accompts hath and taketh all Accompts of All 1. Moneyes giuen in Prest 2. The Buildings 3. Maintaynings 4. Repairings of his Maiesties Nauie Houses c. 5. With all Accompts appertaining thereunto 6. All Accompts of the Household and all the Officers of the same Fees of search with the Auditors At the Office as in the Rolls of Chancerie generally At Westminster as in the Remembrancers generally THE RECEIPT SIDE THE chiefe Records on this side within the compasse of my subiect proposed onely for the clearing of Titles and Estates are in the custodie of 1. The Chamberlaines and their Deputies and 2. The Clarke of the Pells Or at least I may imply the rest within or vnder the Chamberlaines and Vnder-Chamberlaines CHAMBERLAINES THe Chamberlaines haue the custodie or passing of 1. All Tallies stricken in receipt of all payments made to the King 2. All Foyles Ioyned or Vnioyned 3. Old Records of the Exchequer Court being more ancient then those in the Remembrancers 4. And Pleadings of the Common Pleas till the end of Richard the second And of the Kings Bench till the end of Henry the fifth where their owne proper Treasuries begin and are kept in the Treasurie called the Round Treasurie behind the Abbey at Westminster 5. Some ancient Treaties with Foreigne Estates being of more antiquitie then the Records of the proper Treasuries of the Kings Bench And these are kept in a Treasurie adioyning to the foresaid Round Treasurie and are kept very strictly vnder sixe Keyes belonging to so many seuerall Officers of the Exchequer 6. Diuerse Records as Pleadings and other things commixed of the time of King Edward the first King Edward the second and King Edward the third And these are kept in a Treasurie neere to the Records of the Augmentation Office because the other Treasuries cannot containe them The Chamberlaines haue 7. The Booke called Institutio Scaccarij purporting the Subiect in the Title 8. The Blacke Booke which is elsewhere recited 9. Offices post mortem with the Parcels vpon them which they deliuer to the

Parcell-maker 10. All Writs of Allowances sent from the King by Mittimus vnder the Great Seale 11. The Assignements of Auditors in some cases to take Accompts 12. A Booke of some of the ancient Lawes of S. Edward 13. The Booke commonly called Doomes-day made in the time of the Conqueror consisting of two Volumes viz. 1. The one contayning Suffolke and Norfolke 2. The other contayning all the rest of the Shires THE INSTITVTION OF this Booke ANd this Booke was made for the reducing of the Estates of all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Bodies Politique and Ciuill that then were to hold immediately of the said Conqueror and so consequently it containes as followeth THE CONTENTS OF Doomes-day Booke 1. THe ancient Demesne Lands of the Crowne 2. The Lands of the then Lords Spirituall and Temporall Religious Houses Societies Fraternities Bodies Politique and Ciuill c. For the most part by the Yard Hide Oxe-gauge Carucate Selion c. 3. Their Fayres Markets Priuiledges Liberties and Customes c. With diuers other things of like nature And you shall vnderstand what a Yard-Land and what a Hide contayneth by the same Author and how many Hides were then in England And consequently how many Knights Fees and how they were in propertie of the Church or Temporaltie appeares by the same Booke The Fees of search with the Chamberlaines or their vnder Chamberlaines For search in the Round Treasurie Treasurie of the Olde Treaties Treasurie of the three first Edwards viij s ij d For Copie of any thing in any of them euery sheet j s For search of Domes-day Booke vj s viij d. For Copie of any thing in it to be written in the old Saxon Letter euery Line iiij d For search of the Ordinarie Records which belong vnto them as Chamberlaines onely concerning their Tallies c. as with the Remembrancers at their Office OBSERVATION Where note that they haue the keeping or rather the conseruing of the old Records of other Courts and other things as they are a part of the Kings Treasurie and the Fees of Search and Copies are the greater because they are diuided amongst many hands CLARKE OF THE PELLS OR CLERICVS PELLIVM WIth the Clarke of the Pells are All Receipts Payments To the King for what cause soeuer for or by whōsoeuer payd The Fees of Search At no certaintie but respectiuely to their paines And thus much for the Receipt Side NOW NEXT THe Office of the First Fruits and Augmentation of the Reuenues offer themselues For as for the Officers omitted there is no Record with them which may not be found with some other of the Officers formerly mentioned The Controller of the Pipe hath onely the controlment of what is with the Clarke of the Pipe The Foreigne Opposer maketh vp his Docquet and deliuereth it to the Clarke of the Pipe The Parcell-maker who gathereth together the Offices post Mortem and maketh a Booke of the Parcells is but a Retayler of Records and they are elsewhere as is formerly declared The Marshall hath nothing peculiar to himselfe which is matter of Record The Vsher his Office consists more in knowing the number then the nature of the Records The Clarke of the Nihils onely offers his emptie Purse to the Clarke of the Pipe And therefore I passe these ouer and addresse my selfe to that which requires the Remainder of my Lampe THE FIRST FRVITS OFFICE WITH the Remembrancer of the First Fruits and Tenths are 1. The Valuation of all Bishoprickes Denaries and Ecclesiasticall Promotions vvhich ought to pay First Fruits and Tenths 2. All Bonds for securitie of the First Fruits and Tenths be here kept and made 3. All Processe for the same 4. All Lands belonging to most of the Religious Houses certified into this Office though not by way of Suruey yet in very distinct and exact manner for the most part about the sixe and twentieth yeare of Henry the eight Whereunto as it is said the Gouernors of such Houses were ledde being perswaded by the Lord Cromwell That what they brought in thither should bee restored and confirmed vnto them in auoydance of the Premunire And that what was omitted should be taken and reputed as concealed from the King FEES For search of Valuations xij d For view of either Booke the whole being deduced into two which concerne Lands belonging to any Abbeyes iij s iiij d THE COVRT OF AVGMENTATION THIS Court contaynes all the Records of the Lands of all Religious Houses as well the greater as the lesse which at the time of their Dissolutions could bee brought into the Kings hands As 1. Accompts 2. Surueyes 3. Surueyes vpon Accompts 4. Leidger Bookes 5. Rentalls 6. Leases 7. All other particular Euidences 8. The Pleadings Presentments and Proceeding in their Courts before dissolution with others the like 9. And lastly the Surueyes taken vpon the Accompts of most of the said Lands vpon and after their said Dissolution The Fees of search in the Augmentation Court For Search and Copie as in the Rolls of Chancerie except it be out of Terme time and then as in time of Vacation with the Remembrancers THE KINGS BENCH THE Records of the Kings Bench are distinguished according to the seueral Limnes thereof The Limnes of the Kings Bench bee two The Records are accordingly of two sorts viz. Pleadings vpon all Actions personall and some mixt Actions Pleadings and Businesses of the Crowne THE PROTHONOTORIES SIDE THe Records on this side are Pleadings vpon all manner of Actions personall Attaints Appeales Inrolments of Purchases of Estates of Free-hold purchased which may be there inrolled as well as in the Chancerie or other Courts at the pleasure of the Purchasers And in the Red Booke in the Exchequer you shall find that the King vsed to sit in person here to entertaine and answere Foreigne Negotiations Treaties and Controuersies in Religion and Ciuill Businesses But the more ancient of these are with the Chamberlaines of the Exchequer And the latter are with the Keeper of the Kings Royall Paper as I take it The Records on this side which are kept in the proper Treasurie are as ancient as from the beginning of the harmelesse King Henry the sixt till this present Of which onely the Records of one yeare and a halfe last past are vnlocked vp and lye open to bee searched in the lower Treasurie and some few yeares more in their vpper Treasurie Fees of Search in the Kings Bench. For Search of euery Terme in the vpper Treasurie iij s iiij d Besides the Keepers Fees of the Treasurie which are little more then those of the Common Pleas Treasurie as in Common Pleas. For Search of euery Terme of a yeare and a halfe past vj d THE CROWNE OFFICE THE Crowne Office in which are contayned the Pleas of the Crowne Businesses of the Peace and Good Behauiour Indictments Presentments Attainders Recognizances of diuerse sorts Informations vpon Penall Lawes and Vtlaries of Offendors and Malefactors c. I doe aduisedly pretermit