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A90208	The practice of the Exchequer court, with its severall offices and officers being a short narration of the power and duty of each single person in his severall place. Written at the request of the Lord Buckhurst, sometime Lord Treasurer of England. By Sr. T.F. Whereunto are added the rules and orders of proceedings by English bill.	Osborne, Peter, 1521-1592.; Fanshawe, Thomas Fanshawe, Viscount, 1596-1665, attributed name.	1658 (1658)	Wing O527; Thomason E1928_1; ESTC R8740	61,106	176

the same He taketh the Declarations of the ingrossed Accounts of the late Augmentatition Revenue in the Counties of Northumberland Richmond Durham Receivers of Nottingham and Derby Lincolne c. Receivors of Chester Lancaster Westmerland and Cumberland Receivers of Northton and Rutland Receivers of Leicester and Warwick Receivers of Salop Wigor Stafford and Hereford And made before him by the Auditors of the same Shires He with the Kings Attorney Promissis Parcandis doth set all the Fines of Composition upon any that is informed against in that Court by any popular Action or penall Statute which Fyne doth bring the defendant to an end thereof and is set downe from the Roll of the Kings Remembrancers side and charged in the Pipe where he hath his Quietus est upon his Fine payed by tallie and allowed there The second Baron IS he that is next in place and Ancientie to the Lord Cheife Baron and in his absence doth Answer the Barr in matters of orders and course as the case offereth and in matters of law difficultie or importance He referreth all suitors untill the Lord Cheife Barons comeing and that the Court be fuller He and his fellowes in the Lord Cheife Barons absence in meane Causes and matters of Course doe take order with all suitors and matters offered at the Barr as in dayes of Apparances Recognizances Receiving and mending of Pleas informations lycense to depart and some Iudgments the Causes being not great and the Lord cheife Barons mind being somewhat fore-known therein And in every thing he useth more Authoritie in the dispatch of matters in the Court which are called on at the barr when the Chancellour the Vice-treasurer the Kings Attorney or Sollicitor or some or most of them are present in Court wherein he and his fellowes have the more consent and agreement of the cheife Officers of the Court. He and his fellowes in my Lord cheife Barons absence may doe all in Court that my Lord cheife Baron may doe and is good in law Per Considerationem Baronum though there be but two of them yet in most matters and especially of any weight they take a respit and put over the same and wil be advised thereof until such a day He giveth yearely the morrow after Simon and Judes day the Oath to the Lord Mayor and Escheatour of London that he shall make a true Account of the Escheatorship and aske no petition or Allowance but that which is good and true He in the Lord cheife barons absence doth take all manner of Recognizance in Court and out of Court as the Lord cheif Baron doth and hath for his Fee of every one taken out of Court six shillings eight pence as aforesaid He taketh the Declaration of ingrossed Accounts of the Receivors of the late Augmentation Revenue in the Countie of Kent Surry and Sussex Receivers of London Middlesex Hertford and Essex Receivers of Norfold and Huntington Receivers of Suffolk and Cambridge Receivers and made before him by the Auditors of the same Shires He examineth the letters and casteth up the sums of such Sheriffs forraign Accounts Escheators Accounts Collectors Accounts of Customes Subsedies and Fifteens as are brought unto him by any of the Auditors of the Court in the head of which accounts the Barons name is set that examined them And his addition thereunto is Auditor And then the Auditors name that did take and ingrosse them is set under the Barons name and his addition thereunto is Clericus So as it seemeth the old course of Exchequer accounted the three under Barons the Auditors of the court and those we now call Auditors but as their Clerks And in this wise the old account of the Ward Robe the Victualls the Ships the Workes the Provisions the Wars and such like were heretofore taken and examined which be now taken by the Auditors of the Prests and are declared by them and they account before the Lord Treasurer Chancellor and Vice-Treasurer only except they please to call some of the Barons to them as they use so metimes when the most of them cannot attend the hearing of the same accounts The third Baron IS hee that is third in place and Anceintie to the two Barons and may do all things in Court in their two absences as the two Barons and their fellowes might do before but in both their absences the third is very circumspect to do or meddle with anything but that which is ordinary and referreth over all suitors as before He may take Recognizances in Court to the Kings use as the other did before and hath his fee also of six shillings eight pence for the same that are taken out of the Court as the other had before He giveth every Symon and Judes day the Oath to the Lord Mayor and Gaugers of London that he shall make a true account of the same and aske noe petition or allowance but what is good and true He taketh the declaration of the ingrossed accounts of the Receivers of the late Augmentation Revenue in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset Receivers of Cornwall and Devon Receivers He likewise as the second Baron did before examineth the letters and casteth up the sums of such Sheriffs forraigne accounts Escheatours accounts Collectors accounts of Customes Subsidies and Fifteens as are brought to him by anie of the Auditors of the Court as aforesaid The fourth Baron IS alwayes a Cursistor of the Court and hath been chosen of some one of the Clerks in both the Remembrancers offices but most usually he is and hath been chosen of some one of the Clerks of both the Remembrancers office or of the Clerke of the Pipes office He taketh Oath every Simon and Judes day of the two Attorneys the new Lord Mayor then putteth in ad recipiendum mandatum Curiae And likewise of the Deputie Escheator and Gauger of the late Lord Mayor Elcheator and Gauger of London that they shall make a true account of the said Offices and aske noe petition or Allowance but that which is good and true He if he present in Court at dayes of prefixion taketh the Oath of all high Sheriffs there under-sheriffs or Attorneys and of all Escheators that they shall make a true account of the said Offices and aske noe petition or allowance but that is good and true He taketh the Oath of all Collectours Countrollors Surveyors and Searchers of all the Custome houses in England that they have made true Entries in their Bookes without concealment or leaving oat any parcell of wares or merchandizes to the Kings hinderance or prejudice He taketh before the Court commonly begin to sit or when it hath little to do or my Lord cheife Baron is absent the opposals of the Shiriffs of their summons that come in and are sworne to account as before which is nothing else but opposing of every Sheriff what he will say to every summons which is written to him out of the Pipe who upon the sayd opposalls answereth unto such

sums as hee will pay and charge himselfe with confessing so much due or received And to the other summs he will answer O. Ni. as confessing On●retur nist exoneretur and so the said Baron goeth on in this manner questioning and asking of every Sheriff what hee saith to every sum in his summons untill he hath gone through every one of them Hee informeth the Bench and the Kings learned Councill from time to time both in Court and out of Court what the course of Exchequer is and stayeth the rest of the Barons and the Kings learned Councill from ordering any thing they go about contrary to the sayd course for the preservation of the same and to save the Kings Prerogative and benefit which the course of the Court most commonly maintaineth and respecteth Hee taketh the declaration of the ingrossed accounts of the Receivors of the late augmentation of the Revenue of the counties of Yorke Receivers of Oxon and Berks Receivers of Buckingham and Bedford Hee likewise as the two other Barons examineth the Letters and casteth up the sums of such Sheriffs forraigne Accounts Collectors accounts of Subsidies and Fifteens as are brought unto him by any of the auditors of the Court and causeth his name and the auditors name that ingrosseth it to be set with additions of the auditors and Clericus as aforesayd He taketh the Bayles of all Sheriffs Bayliffs of Liberties and Escheators that keep not their dayes of prefixions but come into the Court by attachments which is nothing else but with sureties to be sworne to account and then assesseth the Fines of all such Bayliffes Pro libertate reprehendenda and of all such Escheators for their contempts which be very small and never above five shillings but rather under as twelve pence two shillings and three shillings foure pence And for the Sheriffs Fines in is ever five pounds a day for his four next dayes after his day of prefixion that he faileth to come and to be sworne to his account The two Chamberlaines HAve their place next in Court to the foure Barons and may sit and keepe their places dayly in Court if they like to attend and hearken to the causes of the Court without any intermedling therein But at the election of the Sheriffs yearely In Cr. Animarum they are ordinarily to be there and keepe still their place and may say their opinions for preferment or stay of men to be Sheriffs as the Barons and Justices do but other dealings in the Court of Exchequer at this day I know not that they have They have in old time had great authority in the Receit as I have heard say and have kept certaine keyes of the Treasury Coffers and were ever privy to the Pells of Receit and to the Pells of Exitus of the which each of them kept a controller as at this day they do of the pell of receits and no mony issued out of the Receit without their privity as is manifestly proved because at this day every privy seal for the payment of any mony out of the Receit is directed The saurarijs Camerarijs They have the charge of the Treasury with the Lord Treasurer and keepe the keyes thereof where all the ancient leagues betweene the Kings Progenitors and other Princes and States either do or should lye and where the booke of Dooms-day and the ancient Records and Pleas De Justiciarijs itinerant and De forest is and of diverse other matters do remaine into which Treasury neither they nor their Deputies can come with their keyes untill the auditors of the Receit come with the Lord Treasurers key to the same that remaineth in his keeping to my Lords use The Kings Attorney IS the speciall Officer of the Court that is made privy to all manner of pleas that be not ordinary and of course that rise upon the processe of the Court and to the Replications and Rejoynders growing upon the same on any of the Remembrancers sides He putteth into the Court of his owne name for the King all informations of concealments of Customes Subsides Seisures Receits and of Intrusions Wars Spoiles Incroachments and Anoyances done upon any of his Majesties Lands Tenements Woods Rents Rights and Hereditaments and upon any popular Actions penall Statutes Forfeitures or breach of Covenants The Kings Remembrancer THE Kings Remembrancer of the Exchequer who at certaine dayes prefixed in the Terme calleth to account in open Court by his booke yearly made and commonly called Statutus magnorum computantium c. all the great accountants as the Cofferer the Master of the Wardrobe the Master of the Horses the Keeper of the Scudry the Master of the Revells the Clarke of the Hamper the Butler of England the Treasurer of the Mynt the Lieftenant of the Tower the Constable of the Tower the Lieftnant of the Ordnance the Receiver of the Ships the Victualler of the Ships the Master of the worke and such like and by the same booke should call the Vulgars to account that are now reduced to a fee farme certain by my Lord Treasurers Bill made therefore to them for one and twenty years or more and so they answer yearly their fee farm in the Pipe And by the same booke he calleth as before at dayes prefixed all searchers Ad respondendum Domino Regi medietatem omnium foris fact urarum in Officio suo contingent c. And all collectors of Customes and Subsidies Ad computandum which book of States hath all the sayd Officers christen names and surnames with the addition of their Offices that be full and given and being not given nor full nor account at this day it hath only the Office name in the same He inrolleth and after writeth out the same according to the course of the court against all the sayd accountants that come not in at their dayes prefixed and account for their sayd Office except such as be not now accountants before the sayd Barons He calleth to account in open court by his like booke called the States of the collectors of Subsidies and Fifteens all manner of high collectors thereof granted by Act of parliament in every shire city Burrough Towne corporate and place whatsoever through England as they are appointed and certified by the commissioners every where for the assessing and levying of them and according to their dayes of payment appointed them by the Statute He inrolleth and maketh out processe against such of the sayd Collectors for their Bodies Goods and Tenements that come not in to account and pay their mony according to the grants of the same He taketh Recognizances to the Princes use before the Barons in open Court or out of Court before some one of them of all such persons for most causes with sureties and seldome without sureties as by occasion of any of the premises or from time to time for any debt day of Appearance or other commandement of Court are forced to be bound any manner of way He upon the

Highness for any debt or assured unto his Majesty for any debt to be payd at dayes or else to be forfeited which Indentures Deeds Fines Recoveries and other such Writings he delivereth now into the Kings Remembrancers Office that were wont to be kept in the Treasury to be put in charge before the Auditors of the Counties where the same Lands and Tenements do lye according to the assurance He suffereth sometimes the Informers upon popular Actions to put in their Information in their own name when it is better the party Defendant be so prosecuted or that he is of some fort an acquaintance and so more meet that way to be sued He commandeth all the Remembrancers that there be no proceedings in certain matters depending in their Office when he thinketh it best for the King and Copies and Books to be made thereof both for the judges the Barons and the Kings learned Counsell as the case shall fall out He suffereth sometimes the Demurrers for the King to be argued by other learned Counsell then the King retains by the party that followeth the Kings suit or his Tenant or for his commodity or for some other respect He suffereth so the partyes sometimes that folow the suite for the King to bring other Counsell to the Bar then the Kings to open plead and defend the Kings Title when he is in Court and guideth them for the King He maketh Warrants to all the Remembrancers to make all manner of Commissions Processe writs and Injunctions as the Lord Treasurer the Chancellor the Vice-Treasurer and the Lord Cheife Baron doth He when he understandeth or is complained unto that any stay lingring or Supersedeas is of any processe or execution for the King doth call straight upon the Officers where it lyeth and asketh why such a processe or matter stayeth and being informed of the cause and it is by the Lord Treasurers Master Chancellor Vice-Treasurer or the Courts order he saith stay them for a time and I will move in it but otherwise the matter proceedeth by his order with all expedition He very seldom or never of himself stayeth any process matter or cause of the King but being moved there of by the cheif Officers of the Court he will seem for a time content and leaveth the same to their order yet he is content to give all suitors dayes to appear to shew their Rights and bring in their Answers Rejoynders Writings Evidences and Patents He with the Lord cheife Baron and the Court Pro misis parcandis doth set Fines for Compositions upon any Information depending in the Court by any speciall Statute and thereupon the partie defendant is discharged and the record made up to shew how he hath Compounded And so is drawne and set downe from the Roll of the Kings Remembrancers side and is charged and discharged in the Pipe as is aforesaid He certifieth into the Clerke of the Streate office yearly in the Exchequer all the Kings moities recovered and fines for Impositions made in the Kings Bench upon all penall summes or penall Statutes and pay the same yearly into the Receipt by taile and being set downe into the Pipe by the Clerke of the Streate he hath his Quiet us est for the same The Kings Sollicitor SItteth next to the Kings Attorney in place sometimes Answereth the Barr or the Court on the Kings behalfe both in the absence of the Kings Attorney and when he is present but otherwise he medleth not any way with the Kings Attorneys office He ceusidereth with the Kings Attorney all the Kings Majesties hard and doubtfull cases depending in Court and sheweth his opinion of the same both in Court and out of Court in the Exchequer Chamber He waiteth on the Judges to know when they shall be able to Attend the Kings Causes that he and the Kings Attorney hath for matters depending in the Exchequer to informe them of and both giveth every of them the case and the Copies of all Books and Presideats concerning the same He argueth before the Kings Attorney all the Demurres that be in the Court for the King and sometimes alone without the Attorney with other learned Councell out of the Kings fee that are retianed with him on the Kings side by the partie that followeth the suite for the King The Auditors of the Exchequer BE they That before the late united Courts to the Exchequer did take and make all the accounts of the Ancient Revenue there and now they take also the accounts of the receivers of the late Augmentation Revenue as was allotted to every of them at the first coming thereof into one Court and of the Ministers of the same They never take accounts of any Sheriff Escheator customer Collector of Subsidies or Fifteens or the cofferers accounts but by Assignement in open Court by the Marshall and so entred in his Book to the intent no accomptant shall seeke an Auditor of his Choice They waite on some of the three younger Barons with every such account when it is ingrossed who examineth the particulars and the totalls of the same and seeth if then the same account be straight and true and then it is set upon the head of such Account examined to know by whom it passed thus or as it falleth out indeed AB Auditor CD Clericus AND so it is deliveered by the Baron or Anditor first into the Kings Remembrancers Office and so from time to time to the Lord Treasurors Remembrancers Office and so from him to the Clerke of the Pipes Office to be entred as aforesaid in the Roll as it should be after his nature as aforesaid They cast out all Sheriffs in open Court viz. two or three of them lay the summes and charge of their accounts as they be read to them in open Court by the Clerke of the Pipe and then they allow out of the same their Annuall Deductions and such petitions as they make and be read them in summes in open Court and so try them either Aeque or surplusage and if both or all the Auditors casting doe agree then be the Sheriffs delivered out of the Court by Proclamation of some one of the Ushers They ride every Michaelmas Terme to their Audite kept at the Kings Court in every shire as they are allotted especially unto them where they take the Ministers accounts of the late Augumentation Revenue at places certaine appointed before by their precept and sent out to the Bayliffs Reeves Collectors c. and there by order from my Lord Treasuror Master Chancellour and the Vice-treasuror they have Authoritie to give certaine Allowances of reparations not exceeding the summe of where the kings is no bound thereunto and to do the ordinary things of their Audit They make a breife declaration of every of their Receivers accounts every Lent before my Lord Treasuror master Chancellour and Vice-treasuror and shew their last yeares Arrerages and what every of them have payed in liverie money as in debt upon the same

He is then ordered to pay into the Receipt according to the Statute upon the determination of his accounts or is respited by the said cheife Officers as they see cause for the same The Receivers BE onely of the late Augumentation Revenue united of late unto the Exchequer who receive by Statute of all tenements the Rents reserved upon any the said late lands and likewise the Rents of the Farmers and all such moneys as the Collectors Recyes Bayliffs Ministers of the said Revenue do gather up within their Schedule receits as either payable halfe yearly or found due upon account They pay all Pentions within every of their receits and are bound to pay all their money found due upon the determination of their accounts according to the Statutes in that hehalfe made or they forefeit their office and they and their Sureties are extended besides The Surveyours BE onely of the said Augmentation Revenues and now are commonly put into Commission for the king that go into these Shires where their Offices do lie and besides are ordinarily appointed if they have any skill to survey such Mannors lands and Tenements as the Court hath occasion and doth think meete from time to time for any cause to be surveyed The Attorneys and Clerks of the Kings Remembrancers Office ALL those that are conmmonly retained by the parties in all suits and matters of the Office to appeare and Answer the Court for them and to follow all things in Court belonging thereto but yet in such order that according to their Oath they do nothing uncomely or secretly in perjudice of the kings Majesties right and title but that which is orderly usuall and justifiable in open Court and besides every of them doth from time to time that which belongeth to his place and senioritie in the Office aforesaid The Attorneys and Clerks of the Pipe HAve assigned unto them and every of them speciall certaine Shires of the Realme by the order of their Office according to every of their Seniorities to the which every of them are toward and likewise to all the Accomptants of their owne Shires and to every matter in the same whereby one of them medleth not with anothers Shires but every one of them are retained for the Clyents discharge and to bring every of them his Quietus est but yet as he doth nothing uncomely or untruly to hinder the Kings right and then besides every of them doth in the Office what to his place Anciently appertaineth The Attorneys and Clarkes of the Clarks of the Pleas Office BE they that be retained betweene partie and partie in all suits commenced or depending there who are in all orderly wise to follow their Clyents Causes and to make their Pleas Answers Replications and Rejoynders upon the same for learned Councell to Consider and to do nothing therein but what is lawfull comely and usuall in the Court and every of them doth besides that as belongeth to their place in the same Office The joyners of the tallies BE the second Deputies of the Chamberlaines for that purpose and are sworne at their Admittance to serve truly who from time to time receive out of the receit the Foiles of all Tallies stricken there for any manner of person and file them straight upon a string which so filed are kept under both their keys in their Chests and when anie man bringeth any stock of those to be joyned that must be first done ere they can be allowed in the Pipe The said two Joyners seek straight out the file of the same where it is filed and taking it off do see if the stock and the file do agree in hand letter and joyning and be without suspition and then do they prick them both usually with such markes with their marking Iron as usually sheweth the stock to be joyned then with the same tallie and the day of the joyning thereof is entred in a Book with the letter and summe thereof and afterwards that tallie ie filed anew in the Terme that it is joyned and so kept And then one of the said two Joyners delivereth over the stock that is joyned into the Office of the Pipe and that partie never handleth it after and so it cometh to allowance The two parcell makers BE the Officers that gather out and make the parcells of all the Escheators accounts and be appointed to receive under their hands out of the Treasurors Remembrancers office sett downe in the Roll of Streats there all Transcripts of Offices sent yearly thither out of the Chancerie that be found by anie Escheator through the Realme Then they are to make the parcells of any Escheators accounts in any shire they do call for the precedent account of the Escheator that was the yeare before of that Shire out of which they gather first the parcells Veterum Escaetorum that were in the said last yeares account and continued still undischarged and set them downe in long Rolls of parchment of fullness of letter yearly value tenure and state as they be in the precedent account and came from the Office out of which they were drawne first then they gather the parcells of the new Escheators owne Offices he found in his time and set them downe in the same Roll in like fullnesse of letter yearly vaue tenure and State as they appeare in the same offices which roll is incituled thus Particular account A. B. Escaetor Com. Canc. Middlesex c. from such a day c. And then in the margent of the Roll where the parcells do begin there is Veterum Escaetorum and so be these parcells still Conveied downe and being ended then is sett in the margent of the Roll againe Nova Escaet against the first parcell beginning with going downe and ended there is sett in the margent of the same roll Ter. tenem catal attinct utlegat felon fugitivors whereof the parcells be conveied if there be any but commonly is set against that title eleven pound and they be Veter Escaet nova Escaet totalled up by themselves by the parcell-makers which be the whole Charge of the Escheator And they delivered those parcells so summed up to the Auditor to whome such Escheator is assigned and by the Marshall and he Verbatim accordingly doth ingrosse up his account which passeth further on in the Court as before is declared The Clerk of the Nichills IS the Officer that repaireth to the Clerk of the Estreate every year and seeth what Nihills be marked in Rottulo in the whole Liberate of the greene wax sent out that year which Nihills be issues that the Sheriff that is apposed doth say be nothing worth and illeviable for the insufficiencie of the parties that should pay them whereupon the Clerk of the Nihills doth write them out in a roll of parchment and setteth them in the Court where they lie and under the titles of those Streats from whence they come and where they are marked as afore in Rottulo which