Manuscript Exchequer papers

Item author: Sir William Herrick
Item date: 17th century
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 105,000
Item date acquired: 1989
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Manuscript papers generated by Herrick as one of the Tellers of the Exchequer; 16 volumes of warrants to pay money with their associated receipts, three volumes of debenture slips, eight ledgers recording weekly payments and receipts and five computus rolls, all for an eight year period in the reign of James I.

Item Provenance
Bound in the mid-19th century by John Gough Nichols for their then owner Mr Perry-Herrick