For horses lost in service of the earl, £8 6s. 8d.
Fees paid to earls, barons, knights, and esquires, £623 15s. 5d.
In gifts to knights of France, the Queen of England's nurses, to the Countess of Warren, esquires, minstrels, messengers, and riders, £92 14s.
Item, one hundred and sixty-eight yards of russet cloth,[1] and twenty-four coats for poor men, with money given to the poor on Maundy Thursday, £8 16s. 7d.
Item, twenty-four silver dishes, so many saucers and so many cups for the buttery, one pair of pater nosters, and one silver coffin, bought this year,£103 5s. 6d.
To divers messengers about the earl's business, £34 19s. 8d.
In the earl's chamber, £5.
To divers men for the earl's old debts, £88 16s. 0¾d.
Sum, £1207 7s. 11¾d.
The expences of the countess at Pickering for the time of this account, as in the pantry, buttery, kitchen, and other places, concerning these offices, £285 13s. 0½d.
In wine, wax, spices, cloths, furs, and other things for the countess' wardrobe, £154 7s. 4½d.
Sum, £439 8s. 6¼d.
Sum total of the whole expenses, £7957 13s. 4½d.
Thus much for this Earl of Lancaster.
More I read, that in the 14th of the same Edward II., Hugh Spencer the elder (condemned by the commonalty) was banished the realm; at which time it was found by inquisition that the said Spencer had in sundry shires, fifty-nine manors: he had twenty-eight thousand sheep, one thousand oxen and steers, one thousand two hundred kine, with their calves, forty mares with their colts, one hundred and sixty drawing horses, two thousand hogs, three hundred bullocks, forty tuns of wine, six hundred bacons, eighty carcases of Martilmasse beef, six hundred muttons in larder, ten tuns of cider; his armour, plate, jewels, and ready money, better than £10,000, thirty-six sacks of wool, and a library of books. Thus much the record, which provision for household showeth a great family there to be kept.
Nearer to our time, I read,[2] in the 36th of Henry VI., that the greater estates of the realm being called up to London,
The Earl of Salisbury came with five hundred men on horseback, and was lodged in the Herber.
