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The System of Account in the Wardrobe of Edward I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Charles Johnson
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The word “Wardrobe” has associations for the modern The Wardrobe. historian which he will find very misleading if he takes them back to the end of the thirteenth century. Even at the beginning of the reign of Edward I, the Wardrobe included all the Household departments (i.e. those called in modern times by the names of the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse), and besides these the Household troops, and something more or less corresponding to the Army Clothing Department. Towards the end of the reign, when everything was on a war footing, it comprised the War Office and the Admiralty as well. Indeed it is hardly too much to say that it included all the spending departments except the Office of Works. It thus controlled a very large number of sub-departments, some of which acquired administrative independence in the following reign, in the Treasurership of Walter de Stapledon.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 6 , December 1923 , pp. 50 - 72
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1923

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page 51 note 1 A list of these will be found in P.R.O. Lists and Indexes, Vol. XI, List of Foreign Accounts.

page 52 note 1 See Accts., etc. (Exch.), 353/30, and Liber Quotidianus, p. 349.

page 52 note 2 See Accts., etc. (Exch.), 356/8.

page 54 note 1 Prof. Tout regards this as not at all certain, but his reasoning makes it at least extremely probable (Ibid., pp. 129–9, n).

page 55 note 1 See Accts,, etc. (Exch.), 362/1 and 2.

page 56 note 1 Such an assignment, dated 10 Edward II, will be found among the miscellaneous vouchers in Accts., etc. (Exch.) 362/18.

page 56 note 2 See, for instance, the series of Wardrobe debentures with scals in the Museum of the Public Record Office.

page 57 note 1 Some of these, kept by William de Corby, are entitled Jornale Garderobe and show receipts and issues, balanced daily (e.g. Accts., etc. 359/5 and 8; 361/13, 15, 16.).

page 60 note 1 The original Roll (Accts., etc., 357/25) gives a total of £10,968 16s. o½d. The difference was presumably disallowed on audit.

page 60 note 2 The King is almost invariably at the place recorded in the Household Accounts in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II, and in the earlier years of Edward III. Towards the end of his reign the Household appears settled at Windsor, although the King is known, from other sources, to have been elsewhere.

page 62 note 1 Specimen rolls showing the proceedings of this “Board of Green Cloth” are Accts., etc., 358/17 and 353/28.

page 69 note 1 Accts., etc., 354/23 is an account of Prestita. 355/11 is an account of Liberaciones for 34 Edw. 3, with a list of issues of clothing to the new knights made when Edward, prince of Wales received knighthood.