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Page xix - For the losses of history are indeed irretrievable : when the productions of fancy or science have been swept away, new poets may invent, and new philosophers may reason ; but if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it can never be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses should incite the present age to cherish and perpetuate the valuable relics which have escaped...
Page xvi - Leets, and Law Days, and all and every thing to the same Courts belonging ; and also shall have within the precinct of the said Lordships or Law Day...
Page xviii - Roll contains the entry of sums of money which issued out of any of the royal treasuries by way of imprest, advance, or accommodation. The present price of this volume is 6s.
Page xvii - Record throws considerable light upon the trade of that period ; the value of gold, silver, jewellery, and arms ; the prices of robes, dresses, wines, provisions, and the various other articles used in domestic economy ; the presents made to distinguished individuals ; the salaries and pensions to the Officers of State and others in the Royal household ; the expenses of Ambassadors and Messengers ; the money bestowed in alms and oblations ; all of which were registered on the Misae Roll with scrupulous...
Page xviii - The king's money was sometimes issued by way of prest, or imprest (de praestito), either out of the receipt of exchequer, the wardrobe, or some other of the king's treasuries. Imprest seems to have been of the nature of a concreditum or accomodatum. And when a man had money imprested to him he immediately became accountable to the Crown for the same
Page xvii - Prastitis, regnante Johanne." 1 vol. 8vo., 1844. The Liberate Rolls contain writs issued out of Chancery, directed to the Treasurer and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, ordering them to deliver or pay money out of the Treasury. The Misce Roll contains an account of the daily expenses of the Court of King John.
Page ii - BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 1844. The Printing of this Work was commenced BY THE COMMAND OP His LATE MAJESTY KING WILLIAM IV., under the Direction of the Commissioners of the Public Records of the Kingdom. The Work has been for some time suspended, and is not now / completed according to the original design. It has been carried on to its present extent, and is now published BY THE COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY.
Page xi - Apostolorum in circuitu ejusdem out of the receipts of your county, you cause to be painted in the chapel of our Queen, at Winchester, over the great west window, the image of St. Christopher, as he is elsewhere painted, bearing Christ in his arms; and the figure of St.
Page xviii - Roll of the seventh year has also been lately printed in the volume entitled " Selections from the Miscellaneous Records of the Office of the King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer.
Page vi - Richard, by the grace of God, King of Eng/ land and France and Lord of Ireland, to his Treasurer and Chamberlains, Greeting.