[216] Lord Chamberlain's Records, v. 81-3. The recital runs: 'Whereas we have thought fitt to disburden our privy purse of certaine paymentes used of late to be made out of it, And to assigne the said paymentes to be henceforth made by you our Treasurer of our Chamber ... for allowances to players, for playes made before vs., for bullbayting, beare-bayting, and anie other sport shewed vnto vs.' The Treasurer is to pay 'vpon billes rated allowed and subscribed by our Chamberlaine'. Warrants for rewards for plays were still signed by the Privy Council during 1608-14, but by the Chamberlain from 1614.
[217] Abstract, 7, 12. During 1603-17 the Treasurer of the Chamber had also had £21,362 for 'extraordinary disbursements'.
[218] The development has been fully worked out by Professor Baldwin.
[219] H. O. 159 (1526).
[220] Cheyney, i. 67, 106; Hornemann, 52; Dasent, passim. Certain regulations called Orders in Star Chamber (cf. App. D, No. cxx) appear to proceed from the Council sitting in the Star Chamber, but in an administrative, not a judicial, capacity.
[221] Cf. generally for this paragraph Cheyney, i. 65; Hornemann, 19, 49; E. R. Adair, The Privy Council Registers (E. H. R. xxx. 698); and prefaces to Dasent, passim.
[222] La Mothe, iv. 29 (22 March 1571): 'J'y suys arrivé sur le poinct que ceux de son conseil venoient de débattre, devant elle, les poinctz du tretté.'
[223] Hornemann, 54, cites S. P. D. Eliz. cclxxviii. 55 as evidence that Essex was President of the Council; but surely it was the Council in Ireland. Scaramelli (V. P. ix. 567) reports an interview with the Council on 24 Apr. 1603, at which he says the Archbishop of Canterbury, President of the Council, was not present. This suggests that James had appointed a President. 'These Lords of the Council', adds Scaramelli, 'behave like so many kings.'
[224] Steele, xiv.
[225] Cf. App. D, Bibl. Note.