[166.2] Rolls of Parl. v. 285.
[166.3] Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 262.
[167.1] Rolls of Parl. v. 285-7.
[167.2] Ibid. v. 288-90.
[167.3] Ibid. 321.
[167.4] No. 322.
[168.1] No. 322.
[168.2] Rolls of Parl. v. 321.
[168.3] Ibid. 300. A more sweeping bill for this purpose, which was rejected by the Lords, states that the revenue was so encumbered ‘that the charge of every sheriff in substance exceedeth so far the receipt of the revenues thereof due and leviable to you (i.e. the king), that no person of goodwill dare take upon him to be sheriff in any shire, for the most party, in this land.’ Ibid. 328. Additional illustrations of this fact will be found in Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 263-4, 272-3, and Preface lxxv-vi.
[168.4] Nos. 334, 345, 348.