ABSTRACT
Payments for military wages came from the exchequer, or by assignment of local issues, which normally would have gone to the exchequer, and for which the exchequer made allowance on production of the claimant of the bill of the wardrobe which was his warranty. Mr J. H. Johnson also adopted this idea of payment by the exchequer; 'the wardrobe merely issued bills authorizing payment. In modification of the main argument of Dr Tout and Johnson, it may be pointed out that most of the extant evidence relating to the payment of the native military levies testifies to a much more extensive activity of the wardrobe than these authorities believed. In the almost continuous military activity of the Scottish wars from 1334 onwards, the exchequer continued to be responsible for considerable disbursements to the soldiery, frequently specified as being on the direct authorization of a bill of the keeper of the wardrobe.
