Excerpt from List and Index of Warrants for Issues, 1399-1485: With an Appendix; Indentures of War, 1297-1527 The series of Warrants for Issues (e.404) among the records of the Exchequer of Receipt extends from the thirteenth century to the nineteenth but it is most complete and valuable for the period 1399-1485. Only a small proportion of the warrants sealed before 1599 survives, and from about 1450 there is a marked decline in the number of warrants belonging to each year. The Warrants consist of two main groups. Most numerous are the warrants under the Great Seal, writs issued from Chancery to instruct the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer to pay wages for the current half-year to judges, attorneys, sergeants - at - arms and other officers holding their appointments by letters patent; or to pay the half - yearly portion of an annuity at the Exchequer granted by letters patent. The number of Chancery warrants falls from 1440, when the judges and other law officers came to receive their wages from the Hanaper of Chancery Acts of Resumption account for a reduction after 1450 in the number of pensions from the Exchequer, but, in fact, fewer grants of this nature were being made: none of his successors gave as many annuities at the Exchequer as did Henry IV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.