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A64853 Considerations for regulating the excheqver in the more timely answering, better husbanding and more orderly and safe conduct of the revenues of the crown into His Majesties coffers, as hath been heretofore used by sheriffes : and for freeing the subject from all unjust vexations concerning the same : with the causes and remedies of the inconveniences which have been occasioned by the breach of the lawes and ancient course of the exchequer : as also for the better enabling and easing of sheriffes in the execution of their offices and passing their accompts / per C. Vernon ... Vernon, C. (Christopher) 1642 (1642) Wing V244; ESTC R5970 47,165 128

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the keeping of the Exchequer Court the Exchequer Chamber and the house with all the appurtenances where the Court useth to dine when they sit about the Kings businesse hee maketh provision for all the necessaries both of the Exchequer and of the Receipt and hath allowance thereof at every Liberate and seeth to all places of the Court that all Doores Chests Records and things be in safety from fire water or other spoile c. and hath the oversight of the rest of the Vshers and the six ordinary Messengers of the Court that they make a true delivery to the Sheriffes and all others of the Kings Proces c. The two Praisers of the Court concerning uncustomed goods in the Vnder Treasurers gift The foure ordinary Vshers of the Court in the said chiefe Vshers gift The six ordinary Messengers which carry the proces of the Court to Sheriffes c. in the said chiefe Vshers gift Thus much for the names of the said Offices in the said Superior Exchequer and in whose gift they are But as to the particular duties which are incident to every of the said offices and to those of the Receipt or what particular Records every of them hath in his custody and of what nature and antiquity they are it is not my purpose to treat of in this place for that would be a very great worke of it selfe but onely of so much as shall fall in my way concerning the managing and ordering of the Kings Revenues howbeit thus much I may say that there are so many excellent Records in the Offices of the two Remembrancers Clerke of the Pipe and in the severall Treasuries both in the upper and lower Exchequer As they may indeed bee called Treasuries where those Records are kept they being the greatest Treasure of the Kingdome insomuch as I have heard a great Lawyer say That he never understood what Law was till hee ●ame up those staires And to say the tuth there must needs bee more then ●rdinary matters and great variety of taem found in that Court whither all the other Courts of the Kingdome as rivers to the sea in some kinde or other have their resort The Offices in the inferior or lower Exchequer commonly called the Receipt are these which follow viz. The four Tellors of the Receipt whose Offices are in the Kings gift doe receive all the Kings moneyes which are paid into the Receipt by Sheniffes Customers Farmers and other Accomptants and Debtors whatsoever and doe write a Bill thereof in parchment expressing therein the summe by them received and of whom and for what which Bill they deliver not to the party that payeth the money but put it downe through a Trunke made for that purpose into the Chamberlaines Court for a Tally to be stricken for discharge of the party The Clerk of the Pell whose Office is in the Lord Treasurers gift keepeth the Pell in parchment Clerke of the Pell called Pellis Recepte wherein every Tellers Bill with his name on it is to be entred and under every such Bill when it is entred Recordatur to bee written in open Court for a Controlment to charge the Teller with so much money as in the said Bill is set downe He alse anciently kept another Pell called Pellis Exitus wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneyes paid into the Receipt was to be entred and by whom and by what Warrant privy Seale or Bill it was paid The Auditor of the Receipt whose Office is in the Lord Treasurers gift taketh up every Tellers parchment Bill Auditor of the Receipt after it is marked Recordatur by the Clerke of the Pell and entred by the Controllers of the Pell who were anciently also to make entry thereof in a Counter Pell and fileth it upon a File and then his Clerk that is called Scriptor Talliar Contratall writeth double upon every Tally the whole letter of the Tellers Bill that when the Tally is cloven both the foile and the stocke thereof may have like letter upon them The said Auditor doth also enter all the said parchment Bills in a Booke which is to him as Pellis Recepte and by those hee doth see what every Tellor receiveth weekly and of whom and maketh certificate thereof to the Lord Treasurer c. as hee is commanded how all the money of the Receipt particularly is paid and received and to that end maketh to every of the Tellors a Debentur before any of them can pay any money out of the Receipt be it upon Fees privy Seales or any Warrants whatsoever He likewise keepeth the Lord Treasurers Key of the Treasury where the ancient Leagues of the Realme the Perambulations of the Forrests the Records of Iusticiar Itiner and divers other ancient Records of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas doe lye both in the old Court of Wards and in the old Parliament House in the Cloister at Westminster where no search can be made without the said key come with both the Chamberlains keyes thereof where also the blacke Booke of the Recept de necessariis Scacca observanciis agreeing in that point with the red Booke in the Kings Remembrancers Office is kept The two Vnder-Chamberlaines bee both the Chamberlaines Deputies for the Recept Two Vnder-chamberlaines and their places in the said Chamberlaines gift the tallies so written upon as before are delivered to them and the one of them holding the Tally and the other the Cleaver and Mallet cleaveth the Tally in the midst and then one of them taking the stock and the other the foile and the Clerke of the Pell and his Controllers their bookes wherein the said tellers Billes are recorded the Cleaver saith exam and readeth the stocke aloud and his fellow the Clerke of the Pell and his two controllers seeing the stocke to agree with them all the said stocke is delivered to the party that paid the money for his discharge and the foile cast into the Chamberlaines chest where they keep all their foiles together with their knives and the book of Doomesday c. untill the joyners fetch away the said foiles which they keepe in their Office in the upper Exchequer to bee rejoyned and examined with the stocke delivered to the party for his discharge which is not to be allowed of upon Record in the Pipe by the first Secondary there untill the same be so rejoyned and delivered in Court to the said Secondary by the said joyners with their marke testifying that by their examination the same agreeth with the foile in their custody And in the said chest are also kept the keyes of the Treasury under three locks whereof the Auditor of the Recept hath one key belonging to the Lord Treasurer the two under Chamberlaines another key and the Vsher of the Receipt whose place is in the Kings gift another who attendeth by himselfe or his Deputy and is to doe all things there which other Vshers ought to doe and to keep the Receipt as the
under-written and this Summons And if there were no more in it but this it being of so great antiquity beyond the memory of man as makes it of sufficient force by the Common lawes of this Kingdome to bee obeyed yet this is not all for this Writ is strongly backed by an Act of Parliament in Anno 51 H. 3. called the Statute of the Exchequer whereby it is ordained that all Sheriffs Farmers Bailiffs of Franchises and others shall come to the proffers of the Exchequer the Munday after the utas of Easter and the Munday after the Feast of S. Michael to pay the Farmes Rents and Issues belonging to the King and shall bring at the foresaid Termes the Farms Rents Issues due wholly into the Exchequer And if they make default their bodies shall remain without departing from thence untill they have paid or made agreement and he that wil not come at the Termes aforesaid shall bee amerced after the custome of the Exchequer and the Shiriffes and Bailiffes at the same Termes shall bring and pay such moneyes as they have received of the Summons of the Exchequer and other the Kings debts and shall bee prepared to make full account of the things aforesaid to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer And this is in all points agreeable to the Summons of the Pipe directed to the Sheriffes twice in the yeare for bringing the Farms Rents Debts belonging to the King at the times in the said Statute mentioned and hath been in use ever since the making of the said statute and is so continued at this day though not rightly put in execution The first Summons now sent forth every yeare to the Sheriffes being under the Teste of 12. Feb. which is the last day of Hillary Tearme returnable in Crast claus pasche prox futur being the Easter proffer stiled in the said Statute to be the Munday after the utas of Easter and the other Summons bearing alway the Teste of the last day of every Trinity Tearme returnable in Crast Mich. if it be not Sunday which before is mentioned to be the Munday after the feast of Sain Michael After the Sheriffes have so made their appearances at their Easter and Michaelmas proffers as aforesaid and brought in and paid at his Majesties receit so much at each proffer as was then come or lawfully might have come to their hands or in default thereof have beene amerced or committed to ward every Sheriffe is to appeare in person at his day of prefixion in the Exchequer before the Treasurer and Barons of the said Court or if he be hindred by sicknesse before some Commissioners thereunto authorised by the Court to make his finall account of all the issues and profits of his office due to the King for his yeare and then is to take his oath as followeth viz. That he shall yeeld to his Majesty a true and lawfull acount of the issues and profits of his said office of Sheriff-wicke and make true answer to the Summons of the Pype and Greenwax and in the same account to charge himselfe with all such summes of money as he his Vnder-Sheriffe Bayliffs or Ministers for him have levied or lawfully might have levied to his Majesties use by the Summons aforesaid And of all Fellones goods outlawed mens goods attainted mens goods wayfes estraies and other profits whatsoever which have come to the hands of his Vnder-Sheriffe Bayliffes or Ministers by reason of his said office And that he shall not in the same account vouch any franchises or liberties nor make any petition nor aske any allowance or discharge but such as shall bee good and true and likewise to deliver a book written in parchment declaring of whom and where he receiveth the vicondells and other the Rents and Farmes written unto him in the Summons of the Pipe and well and truly to behave himselfe in yeelding the same account as a true accountant ought to doe without any omission or concealment And every Sheriffe which shall not so appeare at his said day of prefixion before the Treasurer and Barons and take his oath or procure such commission for taking thereof at the same time as aforesaid shall forfeit to the King 5. pounds for every day after his said day of prefixion that he shall so faile to appeare and take his said oath as aforesaid and after the taking of the said oath every Sheriffe is to attend upon the Court and to be apposed before the said Treasurer and Barons in open Court upon the said Summons of the Pipe and shall according to his said oath charge himselfe with all such Farmes Rents and other debts written unto him by the said Summons of the Pipe as he hath or lawfully might have levyed And to such Farmes Rents and Debts as he chargeth himselfe withall The forraine aposer and clarke of the estrates are in like manner to marke the one the summons and the other the record upon their apposall on the greeenwax tot or on i scilicet oneratur nisi is to be marked against their names and Summons by the Clarke of the Pipe and controller respectively in the said great Rolle and Counter Rolle and to be entred and cast up in his charge in the said great Rolle by the first Secondary of the Pipe together with the whole charge of his forraigne Account and Greenwax as is before observed and the said Sheriffe to pay and answer to the King all and every part thereof which shall remaine due upon the foot of his account and not by him formerly paid and answered at his said proffers except onely there shall be some good cause of discharge by matter of Record or order to bee made in open Court for any of those wherewith hee so charged himselfe with on i as aforesaid And to such as he shall averre to be illeviable or to bee dead or within any liberty so as hee could not levy the same by his said Summons Nichell diem clausit extrem or such or such a liberty are to be in like manner marked against their names and summes and those that are so returned with Nichil or diem clausit extrem to be forthwith to be put into Cedula pipe and sent to the Lord Treasurers Remembrancers Office so as stronger Proces to the next Sheriffe may be made from thence against their bodies lands and goods for levying thereof to his Majesties use or Commissions to be made from thence to faithfull and circumspect men of every County for making inquiry into the same Westm 1. An. 3. E 1. cap. 19. Stat. An. 6. H. 4. c. 3. according to former Statutes in that behalfe provided And if upon returne of the said Commissions it shall appeare to the Court that any of the said parties by whom any such debts are owing are nothing worth and that their debts are desperate they are according to the foresaid new Statute of the Exchequer called the Statute of Rutland in ease of Sheriffes