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A Sheriff's farm was the sum of money which he was required to pay annually at the Exchequer for his bailiwick. In virtue of this payment he was allowed to receive for his own use certain revenues paid to him in his official capacity. He was not entitled to all revenues so paid to him, but only to specific revenues; these he was said to farm. But he was not obliged to pay the whole of his farm directly to the king. In every year he would receive orders to apply portions of it in the discharge of all kinds of casual expenditure, civil, military, and domestic. He would also receive orders to apply other portions in the payment of annual salaries and fixed alms. Finally, he was allowed to make certain deductions from it for royal grants, by which the revenues farmed were diminished.
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page 118 note 1 Throughout this paper sums of money are printed in the modern style instead of in the actual words and letters by which they are represented in the rolls. So, too, sums of marks are printed in the corresponding sums of pounds, shillings, and pence.
page 122 note 1 This clause was omitted from the subsequent issues of Magna Carta.
page 127 note 1 The farm of Salop, which was reckoned by tale, also fluctuated during the early years of Henry II. See the Appendix to this paper.
page 135 note 1 The only allowances which were made in blanched money were, except in the early years of Hen. II., allowances for lands granted.
page 140 note 1 The schedule usually contained a further series of entries entitled ‘Exitus de thesauro.’ These also concerned the treasury officials, and not the sheriffs.