ABSTRACT
Chapter deals with manifestations of loans, debts and claims captured in archival sources reflecting the administration of chamber estates Pardubice, Kolín, and Poděbrady in the early modern period. These estates were an important part of the great dominium that belonged to the ruler of the Kingdom of Bohemia himself and they were intended to provide resources for the needs of the monarch (from 1526 member of Habsburg Dynasty), his family, and the court. Multiple records, of various types, prove that the aforementioned aspects of the financial market were important parts of patrimonial as well as town and rural economy. Therefore, chapter firstly describes the genesis of the Bohemian chamber dominium and structure of the administration. It then aims to present the estates in question as the space where debts and claims were indisputable part of day-to-day life of almost every inhabitant of the dominion including serfs, burghers, local nobility, manorial officers as well as staff of the central authorities and, last but not least, Habsburg ruler himself.
