ABSTRACT
These books comprise a series of signed receipts by some of the royal servants for their livery allowances, paid from the Great Wardrobe. Not all musicians are included, for some had combined fee-and-livery payments direct from the Treasurer of the Chamber. The books run chronologically and are usually divided into yearly sections, though the earliest parts are muddled. A typical entry reads as follows:
Johani Jenkins
Eidem Johanni Music. Dni Rs. pro diversis parcellis pro libat sua eidem hoc Anno debit apud Festum supradīm virtute Warrt Dormt dictis dni Rs.
Attingent ad summa xvjli ijs vjd
[John Jenkins
The same John, a musician of the Lord King, for divers parcels for his livery for this year due at the Festival mentioned above, by virtue of a Warrant Dormant from the said Lord King Amounting to the sum of £16. 2s. 6d. (signed) ………………]
