[Footnote 205: This estimate is based on the account for 1594-5; doubtless there was some variation from year to year. A memorandum of _c._ 1596 (_Hatfield MSS._ vi. 571) gives the annual assignment to the office by warrant dormant as £13,800.]
[Footnote 206: On 23 July 1581 Heneage wrote to Hatton (Hatton, 181) that he could only grant allowances to couriers sent to Mr. Secretary in France if signed for by the Lord Treasurer, Lord Chamberlain, or Vice-Chamberlain. On 26 May 1590 (_Cecil Papers_, iv. 35) a royal warrant directed Heneage to pay on warrants subscribed by Burghley, as formerly by Walsingham. Both documents refer to temporary arrangements in the absence of a Secretary. When Herbert became Second Secretary in 1600, it was 'doubted that his warrants for money matters will be of no force to the Treasurer of the Chamber, which office depends upon the principal Secretary's warrants' (_Sydney Papers_, ii. 194).]
[Footnote 207: Camden (tr.), 130; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 761; _S. P. D. Eliz._ xl. 20.]
[Footnote 208: Wright, _Eliz._ i. 355; Hatton, 39; Heneage's accounts begin on 15 Feb. 1570.]
[Footnote 209: Camden (tr.), 450; Dasent, xxv. 4.]
[Footnote 211: _D. N. B._ from _Lansd. MS._ lxxix, No. 19.]
[Footnote 212: _Sydney Papers_, i. 356, 357, 363, 373, 382.]
[Footnote 213: _Cecil Papers_, v. 500; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 808. Killigrew rendered an account from 16 Dec. 1595 to 3 July 1596.]
[Footnote 214: Birch, _Eliz._ ii. 61; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 809.]
[Footnote 215: Birch, _James_, i. 277; _S. P. D. Jac. I_, lxxxi. 15.]
[Footnote 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 Tr_easur_er 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.]
[Footnote 217: _Abstract_, 7, 12. During 1603-17 the Treasurer of the Chamber had also had £21,362 for 'extraordinary disbursements'.]