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XXXI. An Account of the obsolete Office of Purveyor to the King's Houshold. By William Bray, Esq. F.S.A.

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The office of purveyor to the king's houshold was heretofore exercised with so much oppression of the subject, and the officer was armed with such authority, as to occasion continual applications to the king for redress, and numerous acts of parliament were passed to restrain these abuses. From the frequent repetition of such laws, we may collect that they did not answer the intended purpose. The total abolition of this enormity was one of the advantages derived from the troubles in the last century ; an end was put to it at the Restoration. The name of purveyor indeed still remains amongst the king's servants, but the purveyor of these days is nothing more than the tradesman who serves the king as he would any other customer, and, in general, at as cheap a rate.

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page 329 note [a] Speech in Parliament on the projected reformation of the houshold in 1780.

page 330 note [b] Blackstone's Comm. lib. ii. cap. vi. p. 99

page 330 note [c] Blount's Tenures, p. 123.

page 331 note [d] Ibid. p. 135.

page 331 note [e] Records at the Green-cloth.

page 331 note [f] 4. Inst. 273.

page 331 note [g] Black book of the accompting-house, in the Society's library.

page 331 note [h] Order of council temp. Eliz. quoted by Phillips in his Treatise of Purveyance, p. 132.

page 332 note [i] Blackstone, lib. i. c. 8. p. 287.

page 332 note [k] Fleta, lib. ii. cap. 22.

page 332 note [l] Bacon's works, vol. II. p. 150.

page 332 note [m] Moore's Reports, a° 1605, p. 765.

page 332 note [n] 2 Inst. 545.

page 333 note [o] That it was practised by the Romans is noticed by Mr. Barrington in his Observations on the Ancient Statutes, p. 162. He quotes Tacitus in vitâ Agric. c. 19. Quæ in quæstum reperta, ipso tributo gravius tolerabantur. Namque per ludibrium assidere clausis horreis, et emere ultro frumenta, ac vendere cogebantur.

page 333 note [p] Spelman's Gloss. sub voce Forefang.

page 333 note [q] Speed. p. 381.

page 333 note [r] Black book ut supra.

page 333 note [s] Stat. 5 E. III. c. 2.

page 333 note [t] 2 Inst. 545.

page 334 note [u] Phillips, p. 201, but as the earl was steward of the houshold in some part of this reign (see Dugd. Bar. II. 222.) he might issue these warrants in that capacity.

page 334 note [x] Chauncey's Herts, p. 431.

page 334 note [y] Phillips, p. 177. I do not find these charters in the Monasticon. There is one granted by Edward the Confessor to Ramsey, in which are these words; “Relaxamus—exactiones regalium et episcopalium ministrorum,” Dugd. Mon. v. I. 237. And Spelman, under the word angaria, quotes a charter of William the Conqueror to the abbey of Ramsey, which is probably that alluded to by Phillips, in which are these words; “Volo ut nullis unquam graventur oneri bus expeditionum, nec pontium restructione, nec furis apprehensione, sed ab omni angaria regalium ministrorum et aliarum quarumcunque causarum sint perpetui expediti et liberi.”

page 335 note [z] Ibid.

page 335 note [a] Rolls of Parliament, vol. II. p. 245.

page 335 note [b] Ib. IV. p. 22. 94.

page 336 note [c] Rymer, IX. p. 259.

page 336 note [d] Eadmerus, lib. iv. p. 94.

page 336 note [e] Malmesb. lib. v. 91.

page 336 note [f] Phillips, p. 60.

page 336 note [g] Id. p. 60.

page 337 note [h] Blackstone's Great Charter.

page 337 note [i] Charter 1 Hen. III. c. 23. that of 1217, c. 25, and 9 Hen. III. c. 21.

page 337 note [k] Cap. 26.

page 337 note [l] Cap. 31.

page 337 note [m] 1217, cap. 22. and 9 Hen. III. cap. 21.

page 337 note [n] Stat. 5. cap. 6.

page 338 note [o] Phillips, p. 60. 130.

page 338 note [p] Ib. p. 131.

page 338 note [q] Ib. p. 60.

page 339 note [r] Phillips, p. 62.

page 339 note [s] Ibid. p. 421.

page 339 note [t] Append. Ruffhead's Statutes, p. 23.

page 340 note [u] Rolls of Parl. vol. II. p. 260.

page 340 note [x] 2 Inst. 546.

page 340 note [y] 25 Edw. III. stat. 5. cap. 1.

page 340 note [z] Ibid. cap. 15.

page 340 note [a] Rolls of Parl. vol. II. p. 258.

page 341 note [b] Cap. 2.

page 341 note [c] 36 Edw. III. cap. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

page 342 note [d] 2 Inst. 545.

page 342 note [e] Rolls of Parl. vol. II. p. 269.

page 342 note [f] Id. vol. II. p. 140. a° 17 Ed. III. id. vol. II. 161. 169. a° 20 Edw. III.

page 342 note [g] Id. vol. II. p. 242. a° 25 Edw. III.

page 343 note [h] Phillips, p. 67, 68.

page 344 note [i] He mentions the king's expences on great horses, and says, one great horse must have at least one boy to keep it, whose pay is one penny halfpenny a day; oats two pence; hay one penny; amounting to four pence halfpenny a day, two shillings and seven pence halfpenny a week, which would keep four or five poor people. Cap. 8.

In cap. 13. he tells the king, that if he does not amend, “ad mortem tu “dices heu! heu! heu! et quare ter heu dico, dices? primo Heu, quod unquam “natus fuisti; et quare? quia semper fuit Heu ubicunque in terram “tuam venisti! sed majus Heu erit tibi quando anima tua separabitur a corpore “et liberabitur diabolo! sed maximum Heu erit tibi quando anima tua portabitur “ad infernum.”

page 345 note [k] Stat. 6 Ric II. cap. 2.

page 345 note [l] Stat. 7 Ric. II. cap. 8.

page 345 note [m] Stat. 2 Hen. IV. cap. 14.

page 345 note [n] Brooke ayd del Roy 29.

page 346 note [o] Cap. 10.

page 346 note [p] 20 Henry VI. cap. 8.

page 347 note [q] Phillips, p. 77, 78.

page 347 note [r] Cap. xxiv. sect. 10, 11.

page 348 note [s] Phillips.

page 348 note [t] Cap. 6.

page 349 note [u] Phillips, p. 78.

page 349 note [x] Id. p. 80, 81.

page 349 note [y] Id. p. 313. 329.

page 350 note [z] Records at the Green Cloth.

page 350 note [a] Phillips, p. 337.

page 351 note [b] Cap. v. sect. 4 and 5.

page 351 note [c] Coke in artic. sup. chartas 2 Inst. 546.

page 351 note [d] Records at the Green Cloth.

page 352 note [e] Phillips.

page 352 note [f] Records at the Green Cloth.

page 352 note [g] Ibid.

page 354 note [h] Bacon's Works, vol. II. p. 150.

page 354 note [i] Rapin, vol. II. p. 163.

page 354 note [k] Moore's Reports, 764.

page 354 note [l] Phillips, p. 79.

page 355 note [m] Moore's Reports, 765.

page 356 note [n] Harl. MS. No. 1039. in Ayscough's Cat.

page 356 note [o] Letters in the Paper-Office from the Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey, complaining of the burthen, they having coated six hundred men.

page 357 note [p] Phillips, 340.

page 357 note [q] Parl. Hist. vol. I. p. 19.

page 358 note [r] 13 Cha. II. cap. 8.

page 358 note [s] Parl. Hist. vol. I. p. 38.

page 358 note [t] Phillips, p. 292.

page 358 note [u] Ibid. p. 304.

page 358 note [x] Ibid. p. 134.

page 358 note [y] Ibid. p. 224.

page 359 note [z] Records at the Green Cloth.