ABSTRACT
The Quarter Book has been used to correct some other slips in the Declared Account. The Quarter Books and Declared Accounts do not cover fees and allowances of the Lord Admiral and the senior officials who were paid directly from the Exchequer under the terms of their respective patents. Some fragmentary drafts and other papers used in the preparation of the Quarter Book also survive in the John Evelyn MSS now in the British Library. The annotations and supporting papers show that the expense of the Quarter Book itself cannot be taken as a sure record of payments discharged. Some bills ostensibly settled in 1563 were still being paid off by installments into the second half of 1565. The Quarter Book itself consists of 370 paper folios bound in parchment. The paper itself was supplied by the London stationer William Prestwoode.
