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A25535 An Answer to a paper, called, The case of the auditors and receivers of His Majesty's revenue with a brief description of the antient course of the Exchequer for bringing in the crown-revenues : as also, some reasons wherefore the augmentation-revenue of the crown may be charged in the great roll of the Exchequer, and brought in by sheriffs : humbly offered to consideration. 1662 (1662) Wing A3327; ESTC R225 15,390 28

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AN ANSWER To a Paper called The Case of the Auditors and Receivers of His MAJESTY 's Revenue WITH A Brief Description of the Antient Course of the EXCHEQVER for bringing in the Crown-Revenues AS ALSO Some Reasons wherefore the Augmentation-Revenue of the CROWN may be charged in the Great Roll of the Exchequer and brought in by the SHERIFFS Humbly offered to Consideration LONDON Printed by W. G. 1662. A TABLE of the Contents THe Course held for the Crown Revenue before H. 3. time pag. 1 How it shall be levyed Magna Charta pag. 4 How all Accomptants ought to be called to Account and make payment Stat. 51. H. 3. pag. 4 Establishment made 54. H. 3. suitable to the said Statute pag. 4 Statute 10. E. 1. confirming the said Establishment with some Additions pag. 5 How forreign Accompts were taken in all former times pag. 5 How and by whom in what manner Tailes of the Exchequet ought to be allowed pag. 6 How the Revenue is to be charged and how discharges are made in the Great Roll. pag. 6 The Tenor of the Summons of the Exchequer pag. 6 Tailes not being rejoyned shall be reputed as null pag. 7 How lost Tailes shall be Innovated pag. 7 The right use of the Tallies pag. 7 How the Sheriff not acquitting the Debtor shall be delt with pag. 7 How the Clerk so offending shall be punished pag. 7 The Authority of the great Roll. pag. 7 The Comptrolment Roll and the singular use thereof pag. 8 Ingrosser Comptroller and Remembrancers Duties pag. 9 The Antient established Comptrol and how confirmed pag. 9 Answers to the Auditors Objections pag. 9 Many Accompts taken but not ingrossed and many imbezilled 24 H. 7. pag. 10 Accompts of the demiseable Crown Lands to be delivered into the Pipe Stat. 6. H. 8. pag. 10 Establishment made 38. H. 8. and confirmed 7. E. 6. pag. 10 Accompts to be ingrossed and delivered into the Augmentation Court pag. 11 Auditors might take Copies thereof within their Circuits pag. 11 Augmentation Court dissolved and annexed to the Exchequer Stat. 1. Ma. pag. 11 Establishment then made by Authority of Parliament pag. 12 Accompts to be yearly Ingrossed declared and delivered into the Pipe there to remain pag. 12 Accompts of the Augmentation Revenue delivered by Mittimus to the Ingrosser pag. 13 Auditors undue proceedings being no Officers of Record pag. 14 In admitting and dismismissing Accomptants to and from their Accompts unsworn pag. 15 In not suffering the Accomptants Tailes to be rejoyned pag. 15 In not Ingrossing not Declaring and not delivering up those Accompts they have taken pag. 15 Many Supers and Debts have thereby long time depended to the prejudice of Prince and People pag. 15 Many rents have been and are omitted to be charged pag. 15 One Accompt in the great Roll will comprehend 100 Accompts now taken by the Auditors pag. 17 Five times more brought in yearly by the Summons then by all other the Processe of the Exchequer pag. 18 How the Statute 51. H. 3. hath been and is observed pag. 18 Answers to the Mischiefs objected pag. 19 H. 6. Writ proving Sheriffs the only useful Receivers pag. 21 The Lords of the Councell report therein pag. 22 Sir R. Cottons Learned advice pag. 25 The Antient Course OF The EXCHEQUER THAT by the antient Establishment and Ordinances of the Excheques and by the Statutes of this Realm all the Revenues of the Crown of England both Certain and Casual within the Government Rule and Survey of the Court of Exchequer from the time of King Stephen until about the 25. year of Queen Elizabeth were yearly drawn down from the Offices of the Remembrancers there and were charged in the great Roll of the said Court by the Ingrosser of the said great Roll according to his Oath in that behalf which in antient times was done thus All the Farm Rents In Libro Nigr Scac. In Mag. Rot. Scac. in temporibus R. Steph. H. 2. Rich. 1. Reg. Johan with the Issues and Profits of the Antient Demeasn and Escheat Lands of the Crown arising within every County were charged in the said great Roll in one entire Body called Firma Comitatus and under one gross sum for the whole the Particulars whereof were contained in another distinct Roll for that purpose And the Sheriff of each County who antiently were Earls in diverse Counties and sometimes the King 's Eldest Son for so Prince Edward the Son of Hen. 3. for the Counties of Bedford and Bucks for diverse years together in the time of his Father's Reign was charged to answer the same at the Exchequer of Easter and at the Exchequer of Michaelmas yearly and if the Sheriff failed to appear at his prefix'd day to be sworn to his Accompt he forfeited for every days failer C s. But if after his being sworn to Accompt he departed not having finished the same without License of the Court his Lands and Goods were to be seized into the Kings hands and the Issues and Profits thereof were to be answered without any deduction to be had for the same upon his accompt Afterwards King Hen. 3. who Reigned almost an old mans age being no doubt well acquainted as well with the Accompts of the Crown-Revenues which were made in his own his Fathers his Uncles and his Grand-fathers time which are safely preserved without blemish to this day As also with those special Dialogues which Gervasiuc Tilburiensis had Penned and Dedicated to his Grand-father King Hen. 2. in the twentieth year of his Reign touching the Original Institution and Dignity of the Exchequer Court and the singular use of which the Authentick great Roll and Tailes of that Court were as well for bringing all the Revenue under one due Cheque and Controll as for the Subjects Discharge And not unmindful of the Statutes which himself had made of Magna Charta and of the Statute of the Exchequer in the 51 year of his Reign did by and with the advice and consent of his Great Council to wit his Brother Richard King of the Romans Walter Archbishop of York Geoffrey Bishop of Worcester Prince Edward the King's Son who succeeded his Father in Government William de Valencia the Kings Brother Roger de Mortuo Mari Philip Basset Henry de Allen Robert Aquylin Albert Wallerand and other great men who were of the King's Council establish and provide a certain form sutable to the said Statute of the 51 of Henry the 3 d. to be from thence held in writing the said Great Roll wherein the Bodies of the Counties called in the Roll Firma Comitatuum which consisted as before hath been shewn of the antient Demeasn and Escheat Lands and Rents of the Crown and amounted unto 10700 l. per Annum were to be written afterwards the Sheriffs was to be charged with the Farm of the Profits of the County Next that was to be written all Farms as well the greater as the lesser and all determined Debts likewise all great