XII. A brief Summary of the Wardrobe Accounts of the tenth, eleventh, and fourteenth years of King Edward the Second, contained in a Letter addressed by Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director

Abstract

Having lately had an opportunity of carefully perusing the Account-book of the Comptroller of the Wardrobe for the fourteenth year of King Edward the Second, now in the possession of Mr. Joseph Hunton of Richmond, in Yorkshire, I have been induced to compare it with similar Account-books, for the tenth and eleventh years of the same King's reign, amongst the manuscripts in the library of the Society; and to abstract from them such entries as fix the date of transactions embodied in the narratives of chroniclers, supply the omissions of the genealogists of our royal and noble houses, or are curious as illustrating ancient customs and manners.