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Notebook, Court of Wards, folio 2

Winthrop, John

Commissio Andrewe2
Officers fees and seale	xl	s.
Indentures	xvj	s.	viij	d.
Bond	ij	s.
Commission	vj	s.	vj	d.
Schedules	vj	s.	viij	d.
	li.	s.	d.
	3	11	10

Dimissio3 terre Andrewe
The seale			0	4	0
The Master of the Office his fee			0	14	0
Drawinge the lease			0	3	4
Engrossinge the Indenture			0	13	4
For one bonde			0	2	0
			1	16	8
Caueat pro staye de process
					d.
more to mr. Carter for discharge of the rent due at full age and for Accquittance etc.			1	9	10
pro Comiss.			0	6	6
due to me before vnpayd			0	6	0
Rec. 24—18—0	}	The Rest of the Charges are in the litle Booke.
des. 25—4—0	}	The Rest of the Charges are in the litle Booke.
Comiss. inter Harpur et Whitman4

Fo. 2 verso has the docket, “Andrews Fees,” and “M: for a Comis. seal the Indenture.”

These papers relate to the wardship of Edward Andrew, Esq., of co. Northampton.

Dimissio, “demise, making over properties by lease or will”—in this case by lease.

A rough cancelled jotting, evidently referring to the case mentioned infra, p. 31.

Notebook, Court of Wards, folio 3

Winthrop, John

			li.	s.	d.
For the scedule			0	11	0
The feodaries survey			2	5	0
The Copie of the same survey for the Auditor			6	8
Casting the rates			1	0
Fees in the livery office for the Indentures	}		2	13	4
Warrant and bonde and signing	}		2	13	4
The great seale			2	0	0
The enrolling			1	0	0
The enrolling in the eschequer and Compounding for the Homage and knowledging the releife about the meane rates 2 yeares at xx s.		}	2	6	8
			li.	s.
	Summa		12	4

The Charge of a livery upon the landes exceeding the valew of 5 C li.
	li.	s.	d.
Imprimis the tender of the Livery with the enrolling thereof	0	13	4
7
Item the Clerke of the liverie his fees	4	0	0
Item to the master of the Roules	7	0	10
To Lord great Chamberline	5	0	0
The privy seale	9	6	8
The enrolling of the Livery booke	1	0	0
To the Clerke of the Pettibagg2	4	0	0
For the great seale	2	4	4
The enrolling of Indentures and scedule	1	3	0
For the accounting the rates	0	2	0
For penning the livery booke	1	0	0
For Rewardes to the Clerke
	li.	s.	d.
Summa	35	10	2

The Charges for the Composition
	li.	s.	d.
for Geo: Adams at fine	1	6	8
rent		13	4 per annum
it was found in the office at	xi s.	8 d.
it was worthe about	x li. per annum.
To the vsher at Composition daye	0	1 s.	6 d.
To Mr. Chamberline3 due 19 s.	0	10
To Mr. Auditor
To Mr. Receiver vpon payment of the fine
To the master of the wardes for his hand to the scedule
To his secretaryes

Fo. 3 verso contains merely the docket, “Liueryes sueinge the charge of it.” Lists of charges of this nature were doubtless often drawn up by lawyers or their clerks for office use, and were also transmitted from hand to hand. B. M., MS. Harleian 1323, no. 19, fos. 189–209, a handbook of the Court of Wards and Liveries, contains “The Charge of a generall Liverie where the Lands being Rated but at Eight poundes Per Annum,” “The Charges of Sueing out a Spetiall Liverie,” and other tables of the sort.

“Clerks of the Petit bag, three officers of Chancery who record the return of all inquisitions out of every Shire, all liveries granted in the Court of Wards,” etc. N.E.D. , quoting Edward Phillips, 1658.

Sir Richard Chamberline, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1620–21.