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Wardrobe (government)
The Wardrobe, along with the Chamber, made up the personal part of medieval English government known as the king's household. Originally the room where the king's clothes, armour and treasure were stored the term was expanded to describe its contents and then the department of clerks who ran it. Early in the reign of Henry III, and emerging out of the fragmentation of the ''Curia Regis'', the Wardrobe came into its own as the chief accounting department of the household. The wardrobe treasure of gold and jewels enabled the king to make secret and rapid payments to fund his diplomatic and military operations, and for a time, in the 13th-14th centuries, it eclipsed the Exchequer as the chief spending department of central government.〔
There were in fact two main Wardrobes for a period: around 1300 the confusingly-named Great Wardrobe, responsible only for expenditure on such things clothing, textiles, furs and spices, had split away from the more senior "household" wardrobe, which remained responsible for financing the king's personal expenditure and his military operations. In addition there were smaller Privy Wardrobes at various royal palaces; most of these provided items for the personal use of the King when in residence, but the Privy Wardrobe in the Tower of London came to specialize in the storage and manufacture of armour and armaments, and as such developed into an autonomous department of the State.
In the course of the fifteenth century, the original (Household) Wardrobe began to lose its separate identity; before long, its senior officers were being referred to simply as the Treasurer of the Household, Controller of the Household and Cofferer of the Household (rather than as "Treasurer/Controller/Cofferer of the Wardrobe of the Household"). At the same time, the Great Wardrobe began to be referred to, more simply, as "the Wardrobe", thus taking on the identity of its forebear.〔
In the sixteenth century the (Great) Wardrobe lost much of its former importance. This was due both to the growing sophistication and size of government making it less mobile, and to the lower frequency of military campaigns led by the king in person. Nevertheless, the Wardrobe continued in existence (albeit only as a subsidiary department of the Exchequer) until it was abolished by the Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782.〔
==The King's (or Household) Wardrobe==
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