EXTRACTS FROM OLD RECORDS

If you think the insertion of scraps from the mutilated Exchequer records useful, I shall be most happy, from time to time, to contribute a few. The following are extracted from fragments of a book of entries, temp. Charles I.: the book appears to have been a large folio, and each leaf torn into at least four pieces. It is much to be regretted that the work of selection and mutilation was not assigned to more competent persons than the ignorant porters who I am told were entrusted with it. ROBERT COLE. *Fragment dated 1637.* John de Critz, Serjeant Painter, pt of 2158. 13, for a debt in the gr…