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A56130	Aurum reginæ, or, A compendious tractate and chronological collection of records in the Tower and Court of Exchequer concerning queen-gold evidencing the quiddity, quantity, quality, antiquity, legality of this golden prerogative, duty, and revenue of the queen-consorts of England ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1668 (1668)	Wing P3898; ESTC R4976	161,571	146

Junii hoc anno in propria persona sua dicit se solvisse Philippae Reginae Angliae ad receptam s●am 20 marc quas idem Johannes debet de quodam fine facto pro Transgress coram Johanne de Molyns sociis suis nuper Justic Regis ad diversa Transgressiones oppressiones dampna gravamina in Com. Sussex audiend terminand assignat anno 27 Regis nunc Et de solutione inde ostendit Curiae unam Talliam levatam ad receptam ipsius Reginae 12 die Aprilis anno 27. quam Johannes de Edyndon Attornat praefatae Reginae praesens in Curia praedict 20 die Junii cognovit esse veram legalem Et dictum Johannem de Herewardestoks denarios in eadem Tall. contentos ad receptam praedictus solbisse Cognovit etiam praedictus Johannes de Edyndon quod praedictus Johannes de Herewardestoks solvit praefatae Reginae ad receptam suam praediatam 11 marc de AURO SUO ad ipsam Reginam pertinent de fine praedicto over and above the entire Fine it self which she likewise received which is observable Anno 41 E. 3. In the Plea Rolls coram Baronibus de Quindena Sancti Michaelis Anno 41 Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum I finde many Actions brought by Queen Philip against her Bayliffs and Receivers of her Moneys and Inhibitions to Sheriffs not to depart the Court till they had satisfied her for all the Moneys they had levyed of her Debtors which related to her Queen-gold as well as other Debts as these Records do intimate PRaeceptum fuit Vic. Cant. Hunt sicut pluries quod caperet Richardum Glanvill administratorem occupatorem bonorum et catall quae fuerunt Johannis de Glanvill nuper Thes Receptor Vlton defuncti ubicunque c. Et eum salvo c. Ita quod haberet corpus ejus hîc ad plures dies praesen et tandem in Crastino Sancti Michaelis ad respondend Philippae Reginae Angliae de 76 l. 13 s. 4 d. aretro existentibus de quadam recognitione 200 marc quam idem Johannes fecit praedictae Reginae pro arreragiis Compotorum suorum de partibus Hiberniae nuper ad Scaccarium ipstus Reginae de tempore quo fuit Receptor denariorum ipstus Reginae ibidem Which I conceive to be her Queen-gold as well as other her monies and debts in Ireland Quindena Paschae An. 40 Regis Edwardi 3. INhibitum est 8 die Maii Thomae de Musgrave nuper Vic. Ebor. praesenti in Curia eadem die per Johannem Bret Attornatum suum ne recedat a Curia quousque satisfecerit Philippae Reginae Angliae de 74 s. 10 d. quas praedict Thomas nuper levavit particulariter de diversis debitoribus praefatae Reginae quorum nomina particulae denar plenius annotantur in quadam Cedula quae est inter Billas de hoc Termino sub periculo quod c. INhibitum est supradicto 8 die Maii Vic. Salop ne recedat à Curia quousque satisfecerit Philippae Reginae Angliae de 8 l. 3 s. 4 d. quas praedictus Johannes levavit singulariter dediversis debitoribus praefatae Reginae quorum nomina partic denariorum plenius annotantur in quadam Cedula quae est inter Billas de hoc Termino sub periculo quod c. Postea de assensu Ricardi de Ravens Receptoris denar praefatae Reginae datus est dies praefato Vic. hic in Crastino Sancti Michaelis ad solvend praefatae Reginae dictas 8 l. 3 s. 4 d. quam diem praedictus Vic. admisit Postea viz. 25 die Octob. hoc Anno praedicta Regina venit coram Baronibus per Johannem de Holt Attornatum fuum cognovit quod praedict Vic. solvit ei denarios praedictos Ideo praedictus Vic. de Inhibitione praedicta recedat quietus King Edward the 3d. in the 50 year of his reign pardoned all Debts by his General Pardon due unto him before the 40th year of his reign when his Queen Philip was living the Arrears of whose QVEEN-GOLD and other Debts due to her before this 40th year accruing to him by his Queens decease and to his Grandchild K. Richard the 2d after his decease who sued her Debtors for her AVRVM REGINAE and other Debts as not included within that Pardon the Commons thereupon in the Parliament of 5 R. 2. exhibited this Petition to the King to make a Declaration in that Parliament that those her Debts accruing to the King should be comprehended within that pardon Which the King thought unreasonable since they were levyed principally to satisfie her Creditors but if after Proclamation made it should appear all her Creditors were satisfied he would then extend his grace unto them in that case as the Parliament Roll thus informs us I Tem prient les Communes qe Declaracion soit faite en ce Pariement qe les dettes dues au Roi par la mort la Roigne qe darrein morust queur furent dues au dit Roigne debant l'an quarantisme le Roi E. laiell debient currer deinz la pardon fait l'an cynquantisme de mesme le Roi laiel par quel entre autres sont pardonez touz dettes duez au dit Roi debant l'an de son regne quarantisme nient contresteaut qe la dite Roigne mutrust apres la dit an quarantisme Resp Tl ne semble mye reson qe ff la dite Roigne fensse unqores endette● as aucunes gentz du Roialme as queur pur defaute daboir nad mye peu estre satisfait qe debant qe ses dettes soient purpaiez riele pardon feusse fait mes le Roi voet qe proclamacion soit faite par entre cy et la seint Michel proschein venant qe si nully vorra pleindre de dette a lui due par mesme la Roigne viegnent mettent avant lour pleinte ce fait selonc ce qu le pleinte se serra au Roi il entende de modiffer sa grace en le cas King Henry the 6. coming to the Crown when he was scarce six months old soon after sate publikely in state in the High Court of Parliament among the Peers as King in his Mother Queen Katherines lap a strange sight never before seen in England yet he was not maried till the 23. year of his reign during which this duty of Queen-gold was in suspense till his marriage with Queen Margaret when it immediately revived and was presently claimed and received by her Receiver in the Exchequer as his premised Writ to his Treasurer and Barons and his Queens Patent to her Receiver of Queen-gold evidence Yet long before that upon the Petition and request of Queen Katherine his Mother his Councel issued this memorable Writ in his Name to the Treasurer and Barons of his Exchequer that her Officers should have and enjoy the same priviledges in that Court for the levying of all her rents revenues QVEEN-GOLD

endebted to him to perform their wills 4ly That the ordinary proportion of Queen-gold in King Henries reign was only one Mark to the Queen for every ten Marks to the King yet in the case of Jone Wake the Queen had one thousand Marks for the Kings nine thousand 6ly That the King himself sometimes appointed when and how the whole Ten thousand Marks as well that due to Queen as to himself should be paid at several payments into the Exchequer and that by expresse agreement when the Fine was made 6ly That the Queens gold was to be levyed by the Kings processe issued to the Sheriffs in the same manner as the Kings Fine was And that the Sheriffs of London were imprisoned by the Barons and the Liberties of the City seised into the Kings hands for their neglect in not levying it and for the Citizens riot and rescous of those pawnes they had given for it 7ly That all the Lands and goods of the parties that made the Fines which they had at the time of the Fines made were to be extended for the Queens gold as well as for the Kings Fines And that if the party failed of the last payment of the Kings Fine he was to lose all that was payd and the Custody of the Wards lands and body too for which it was payd 8ly That Aurum Reginae was due to the Queen out of all voluntary Oblations and Fines made to the King in Ireland as well as in England And that by King Henry his special grant of the Land of Ireland to his son and Heir Prince Edward in as free and ample manner as himself enjoyed it the Queen-gold there became due to the Princes wife by his special Patent to her I shall next present you with such Records concerning QUEEN-GOLD as I have found and perused in the Tower and Court of Exchequer during the reign of King Edward the 1. John de Waterele Keeper of the Aurum Reginae accruing to Queen Eleanor wife to King Henry the 3d and Mother to King Edward the 1. exacting this Duty in the Court of Exchequer after King Henries death from those who granted him the 20th part of their goods in his life-time towards the relief of the Holy Land and likewise out of the Tallages last assessed on the Kings Lands and Tenants throughout England to their great grievance upon complaint thereof to King Edward the 1. his Counsil he being then absent in the Holy Land in the first year of his reign some of them came personally into the Court of Exchequer and there openly prohibited Waterele from thenceforth to exact or receive any Gold from any upon these occasions as this Record and Memorandum in the Office of the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer informs us MEmorandum quod die Lunae prox ante festum Conversionis Sancti Pauli vener ad Scaccarium W. Eborum Archiepiscopus Rogerus de Mortuo mari Robertus Burnel quidam alii de Consilio Regis et inhibuerunt 5 Johanni de Waterele Custodi AVRI Alienorae Reginae matris Regis Edwardi 4 ne de caetero exigat seu capiat ab aliquo AVRVM ad opus ejusdem Reginae occasione vicesimae praedicto Regi concessae tempo●e H. Regis patris sui in Subsid terrae sanctae nec etiam occasione Tallagii ultimo assess per Angl. super Dominica Regis praedicti In the 3d year of King Edward the 1. Nicholas de Ely Bishop of Winchester being prosecuted in the Kings Exchequer for Queen-gold by Queen Eleanors Clerk for a Debt of 2229 l. 13 s. 1 d. due to King Henry the 3d her husband by John Gernsey his predecessor for the corn and stock of the said Bishoprick which he bought of the King upon the Kings command to the Treasurer and Barons deliverd to them by word of mouth in the Exchequer they discharged him from the payment of the said Gold by authority of the Kings command whether out of meer grace to the Bishop or because the successor Bishop was not obliged by this contract of his predecessor for this stock and corn devolved to the predecessors Executors or to the King by his decease Or because no Aurum Reginae was due in strictnesse of Law upon this bargain or emption appears not by the Record thereof entred in these words MEmorand quod die Lunae proxim post Festum Sanctorum Nerei Achillei venit Walterus de Heleni ad Scaccarium dixit Thes Baron ex parte D. Regis quod in proximo adventu Nicholai Episcopi Wint. ad idem Scaccarium absolverent eundem Episcopum de AVRO quod exigitur ab eo ad oPUS Dominae Reginae matris Domini Regis de 2229 l. 3 s. 1 d. in quibus Johannes quondam Wynton Episcopus Regi H. tenebatur 4 pro emptione bladi et instauri dicti Episcopatus Postea venit idem Episcopus ad Scaccarium praedictum et auctoritate mand praedict absolutus est de AVRO praedicto Eleanor first Queen Consort to King Edward the 1. in the 3d. year of his reign constituted Walter Kent Receiver and keeper of her gold in the Kings Exchequer whereupon she sent this Letter to the Barons to admit him to this Office without any difficulty and to advise and assist him therein when need should require as Eleanor wife to H. 3. had done before her CUM dilecto fideli Waltero de Cantia Clerico nostro terrarum tenementorum nostrorum in Anglia et Auri nostri commiserimus custodiam et exitus inde recipiend de eisdem ordinand et disponend prout nobis viderit expedire ac quaedam dictam custodiam tangentia existant quae per vos cautiorem sortire valeant effectum per quod vos rogamus affectuosè quatinus dictum Walterum ad custodiam Auri praedicti nostro nomine faciend sine aliquo diffugio recipiatis eidem in Ofeficio praedito aliis negotiis nostris coram vobis expediend quociens opus fuerit consulentes esse velitis auxiliantes precibus nostris amore Dat. apud Woodstock 26 die Decembris Anno regni Domini nostri Edwardi tertio Anno 4 E. 1. Queen Eleanor assigned Benett of Wynton a Jew to keep her Gold and dispatch her other businesse in the Exchequer for the Jews as other Jews had alwayes accustomed to do as appears by this Mandate of the King to the Barons to admit him to this office CUM karissima Consors Alienora Regina Angliae 5 assignaverit Benettum de Wynton Judaeum ad Aurum ipsius Consortis Custod ad alia negotia ipsam contingentia exequend prout alii Judaei semper hactenus facere consueverunt Rex mand eisdem quod praefat Benettum ad hoc admittant in forma praedita Teste c. This year there arising some new Controversies and doubts out of what Oblations QUEEN-GOLD ought to be paid the King and his Counsil made these resolutions therein which they

executione inde ad opus Reginae faciend Memorand quod idem breve irrotulatur inter brevia directa Baron de Termino Paschae Anno 13 Regis Henrici quarti Rot. 13. in dors Ibid. Trin. Rot. 15. De F. R. allocat de quadam Summa AURI quod W. F. satisfecit c. From these Records of King Henry the 4th I shall observe 1. That Queen-gold was an ancient duty belonging to our Queen Consorts by the Lawes and Custom of England for the due levying whereof King Henry was very zealous out of his affection to his Queen 2. That it was due out of every fine amounting to the summe of 10. marks or more made to the King at and from the time that the fine was made and recorded and that the proportion of it was one Mark for every ten Marks and ten pound for every hundred pound Fine or Oblation 3ly That it was charged ascertained and levyed as a Debt upon Record by the Extracts of the Fines in the Chancery or before the Justices in Eyre and other Courts of the King certified into the Court of Exchequer 4ly That the Red Book Records and Accounts in the Exchequer were the best and surest Directions to shew for what Oblations and Fines it was due and how to be levyed 5ly That it was then due and levyed for Fines for licenses of alienation of Lands Tenements and Appropriations of Churches in mortmain for Wardships granted for mariages of Wards during their minority of the Kings Widows for Charters Liberties and Exemptions to Monasteries Cities and Corporations for Fines for breaches of the Peace concealments of goods forfeited to the King from Merchants for transporting Wools stealing Customs and other misdemeanors Fines for Writs and Inquisitions for exemptions from Fee-farms Subsidies Aydes Impositions levying and collecting Disms when granted by the Clergy or Laity for redemption restitution of Lands or goods forfeited to the King for Pardons of any offences for ransoms of Prisoners taken in the Wars and for a Fine for a Charter of the Isle of Man In the reign of King Henry the 5. I finde this Patent of Queen Jone constituting Geoffrey Paynell to be her Treasurer and Receiver General of all her Seigneuries rents monies profits issues emoluments whatsoever both in England Wales or elsewhere wherein Queen-gold was included though not particularly expressed as in the Patents of some other precedent and succeeding Queens IOhanne par la Grace de Dieu Royne Dengleterre de Fraunce Dame Dirlaunde A tous ceux qui cestes nouz lettres verront ou orront salut Sachez nouz 5 aboir fait ordene et constitut nostre chier et bon ame Escuper Geffray Paynell nostre Tresorer et Resceyvour Generale be touz noz deniers provenaunts sibien de touz noz Seigneuries terres tenemens rentz Feefarms customes apportz pensiouns annuities profres issuez emolumentz qe conques en Angleterre Gales et parailleurs come de tous autres proffitz a nous en aultre manere queconque duez assignez et on apres a estre assignez Renduit a nous due accompt de tout ce qil resceyvera en son dite office chescun an preignaunt rescevaunt annuelment pur le dit office tieux fees gages regardez sicome Sire Johan Tabbay nadgairs nostre Tresorer et Resceyvour General qui Dieu perdount pur mesme l'office affaire prist resceut qe y son accompt a luy sont allouez Mandaniz chargeantz a touz nos Fermers Bailiffs Officers Ministres Tenantz et Subgiz quiconqes prions a tous altres as queux affrert qe a nostre dit Iresorer et Resceivour General enfaisant le dit office ils soient apparantz entendantz respoignantz aidantz conseillantz obeiantz en due manere Avantz forme estable tout ce qe nostre dit Tresourer et Resceibour General pour nous in nostre noune pour nostre proffi● face ou serra en apres en l'office avantdit Et evoultre sachez nouz pour certaines causes nous moignauntz avoir ordene constitut le susdit Geffray nostre Garderober A avoire et occupyer mesme l'office si entirement et en meisme la manere come nostre treschier bon ame Escuyer Nichola Alderwyche lavoit a occupia rendaunt a nos due accompt annuelment de touz les deniers pur luy employez despenduz en l'office avauntdit preignant par an pour meisme l'office tiel regarde come per nous de l'advys de nostre conseil lui serra ordeine En tesmoignance de quelle chose nous avoms faite faire cestez noz letres Patentz adurer a nostre pleiser volente Don dessoubz nostre Grand Seal a nostre Manoir de Langley le 28 jour de Septemb. l'an du Regne de mon treshonour Seigneur filz le Roy Henr. le quint puis le Conquest tierce Mr. Hackewill in his Treatise of Queen-gold hath made a brief reference to 5 H. 5. Rot. 29. ex parte Rem Regis in Scac. to prove that the arrears of Queen-gold due to the Queen accrue to the present or succeeding King by her decease but I can yet find no such Record in that year upon search of the Rolls there of In the Reign of King Henry the 6. I only yet find these Writs of the King and Letters Patents of his Queen Consort Margaret constituting John Croke and William Essex Clerks of her Writs and Attornyes in the Exchequer to exact and demand her Queen-gold and other duties and to prosecute and defend her suits actions there and what else belonged to their offices HEnri par la grace de Dieu Roy c. As Barons de nostre Eschequier saluz Come nostre tresentierement bien ame 5 la Royne nostre Compaigne ait ordenne et constitute no bien amez Johan Croke et William Essex Clercs de ses briefs en nostre Eschequier a Westm et ses Attournees illoeques pour demander et exiger L'OK appelle L'OK de la ROYNE et autres choses faire exercer continnez es lettres de nostre dicte compaigne sur se factes soubz son Signet Dont le tenour censuist Marguerete par la grace de Dyeu Royne Dengleterre et de France Dame Dirlande a tous ceulx qui ycestes noz lettres verront on orront salutz Sachiez nous avoir ordenne constitute noz chiers serviteurs Johan Croke William Essex noz Clercs de nor briefs en L'eschequier nostre tresredoubte Souveraign Seignior le Roy à Westm et noz attornes illeoqes ●●bien pour demander et exiger nostre OK appelle le OK de la ROYNE come a poursuir et defendre en tous plees et querelx pour nous et encontre nous moebes on desire moeves en meisme L'eschequer et auxi a faire tout ce que alesdit offices raisonnablement appertient A avoir et occupier les avant ditz offices

regni Domini mei Regis nunc 2o. quamdiu nobis placuerit percipiend annuatim per manus suas proprias de Recept sua talia feod vadia qualia alii Recept temporibus aliarum Reginarum Angliae habuerunt et perceperunt ad festa Pasch Sancti Michaelis per equales porciones necnon alia vestur profic commoditat dicto officio debita consueta Damus igitur universis singulis Recept Ballivis Bedellis occupat approvat Tenen Offic. Ministris nostris quibuscunque ac omnibus aliis quorum interest tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod eidem Edmundo in executione et occupatione Offic. praedicti intendentes sint respondentes in omnibus prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras signo nostro Manual signat fieri fecimus Patentes Dat. sub magno sigillo nostro apud Castrum metuendissimi Domini mei de Wyndesore octavo die Julii Anno regni dicti Domini mei tercio In the first year of the reign of King Henry the 8. who had no lesse than six Queen Consorts to some of whom he was very unkind I found this Patent of his first Queen Katherine to Richard Decons constituting him her Receiver General of all herrents and revenues and likewise of her Qeen-gold by expresse name enrolled in the Rolls of that year in the Kings Remembrancers Office MEmorandum quod Richardus Decons Armiger venit coram Baronibus hujus Scaccarii quartodecimo die Novembris hoc Termino in propria persona sua exhibuit Curiae hic quasdant 5 Literas Patentes Dominae Katerinae Reginae Angliae Consortis Domini Regis nunc de magno Sigillo ipsius Dominae Reginae eidem Richardo de Officio Generalis Receptoris ipsius Dominae Reginae confect petens literas illas hic in Curia irrotulari Et Barones Literas illas irrotulari praeceperunt in haec verba KATHERINA Dei Gratiâ Regina Angliae Franciae Domina Hyberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac de fidelitate circumspectione et industria dilecti Servientis nostri Richardi Decons Armigeri plenius confidentes Constituimus et 5 Ordinavimus ipsum Richardum Generalem Receptorem nostrum omnium Castrorum Honorum Dominiorum Maneriorum Terrarum Tenementorum Reddit Firm. Feod Firmarum Annuitat AVRI vocat Quene Gold ac aliarum Commoditat nostrarum quarumcunque nobis pertinen seu spectan Et ulterius officium Generalis Receptoris nostri praedicti praefato Richardo Decons damus et concedimus per praesentes Ac etiam volumus tenore praesentium Authoritatem damus et concedimus praefato Richardo ad approvand omnia praedict Castra Honores Dominia Maneria Terr Ten. caetera praemissa cum pertinentiis ad majus proficuum commodum nostra ad constituend deputand ordinand omnes officiarios pro Receptione omnium singulorum denar nobis debit imposterum debend de Exit Recept dictorum Castrorum Honorum Dominiorum Maneriorum Terr Ten. ac caeterorum praemissorum secundum suam discretionem prout sibi melius videbitur pro nostris commodo et proficuis Ac de Recept suis praedictis acquietan nomine nostro dand sigilland Habend tenend occupand officium praedictum praefato Richardo à festo Annunciationis beatae Mariae Virginis ultimo praeterito quamdiu nobis placuerit percipiend annuatim per manus suas proprias de Receptione sua praedicta talia feod vadia qualia alii Recept temporibus aliarum Reginarum habuerunt et perceperunt ad festa Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Paschae per aequales porciones unà cum omnibus aliis proficuis commoditatibus emolumentis dicto officio pertinen sive spectant Damus igitur universis singulis Receptoribus Ballivis Bedellis occupat approvat Tenen Offic. Ministris nostris quibuscunque Ac omnibus aliis quorum interest tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod eidem Richardo in executione et occupatione Offic. praedicti intendentes sint respondentes in omnibus prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Dat. sub magno sigillo nostro apud Manerium Domini mei de Grenewich vicesimo die Junii Anno regni dicti Domini mei Regis Henrici Octavi primo Mr. William Hakewill in his Treatise of Queen-gold and others inform us That Richard Deacons was Receptor Generalis Katherinae Reginae Anno 12. usque 22 H. 8. AVRI SVI for which he received a fee of 50 l. per annum as doth appear by an Account of his in the keeping of Queen Annes Auditor Anno 5 Jacobi Regis And that Katherine first Queen Consort to King Henry the 8. constituted him her Receiver General of all her rents monyes debts and also of her Quéen-gold Which no lesse argueth the distinction of the Office of Receiver of the Quéens gold then the other special Patents for the same The words in which Account are these Richardus Deconus Armig. Generalis Receptor omnium terrarum tenementorum c. Katherinae Reginae Angliae AVRI REGINAE vocati QUEEN-GOLD Which Account of his I have not yet seen nor know where to find The Pipe Roll Anno 22 H. 8. informs us That Griffinus Richards Armig. was Generalis Receptor denarior AVRI REGINAE Katherinae Consortis H. 8. So likewise as Mr. Hakewill writes in the Letters Patents of Queen Anne Bulloigne which he and others referr to Anno 25 27 H. 8. which I cannot finde after a double search for them made unto George Taylour her Attorney General are found these words Anna c. Ordinamus c. Georgium Taylour Receptorem Generalem omnium reddituum c. et AVRI REGINAE vocati QUEEN-GOLD But how much Queen-gold any of H. 8. his Queens in his reign received or what Writs issued for the levying therof I cannot yet discover Only Mr. William Hakewill informs us of one Account in the Custody of Queen Annes Auditor and of the form of a Writ for levying AURUM REGINAE to the use of Queen Katherine last Wife to King Henry the 8. found in an old President Book of that time which I have not yet met with which no doubt agrees with the form of the pr●mised Writs of that kinde This duty of Aurum Reginae being totally suspended and put in long abeyance from the decease of King Henry the 8. in the year 1547. by reason of King Edward the 6. his death before marriage and the descent of the Crown to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth as Soveraign Queens not Queen Consorts uncapable of this duty was again re-continued and revived by the descent of the Realm and Crown of England by undoubted Inheritance and Succession to King James the 6. of Scotland then married to Queen Anne by whom he had

issue who making his royal progresse together with his said Queen out of Scotland into England to take possession of the Crown and Realm arrived in the City of London on the 7th of May. Anno Dom. 1603. and on the 25 of July following being St. James his day he and his Queen Anne were with great solemnity an●ynted and crowned in the Coll●giate Church of Westminster by Archbishop Whitgift At which time the Earl of Oxford Lord Chamberlain to the Queens Highnesse put in a Claim to have the appointing of a Clerk in the Exchequer for the levying of AVRVM REGINAE out of the Red Book in the Exchequer and Pat. 20 R. 2. forecited p. 24 25. And about the same time Mr. William Cambden Clarencieux second Herald at Armes in a Manuscript Collection reserved in Sir John Cottons Library cap. 16. of the Priviledges of Quén wives inserted this of Aurum Reginae amongst others for which he cites the words of Gervasius Tilberiensis ex libro Rub●o in Scaccario l. 2. cap. 26. de Auro Reginae which concern Queen-gold that Ibld. f. 223. forecited Et quod hic fit mentio de Auro Reginae quod varii varia de exactione illa senserunt quibusdam dicentibus quod Aurum non debetur nisi quando quis finem fecit pro Relevio alii dixerunt quod de quocumque fine Centum Marc. supra Set licet Richardus Ep●scopus refutat istud in libro suo tamen videtur Quod debeatur AVRVM REGINAE de quolibet fine 10. Marcarum et supra quod probari potest per Rotulum Anno 10 Regis Johannis in Berks ubi Abbas Rading finem fecit pro sexaginta marcis pertinent ad Hundredum suum Et eodem Rotulo Titulo AURUM REGINAE reddit Compotum de 20 marcas pro AVRO REGINAE de praedicto five 60 marcarum By reason of the extraordinary Plague of Pestilence in London that year and in most Cities and great Towns throughout England the year following Queen Ann● for ought I find then laid no actual claim to this duty of Queen gold But in the year 1605. Mr. William Hakewill being her Sollicitor General a person well versed in the Records of the Eschequer and other Antiquities afterwards a Bencher and Reader of Lincolnes Inne my very good Friend and Acquaintance compiled and presented to Queen Anne A Treatise upon the Nature of AURUM REGINAE Conteining the Transcript of divers Records produced in proof of several points thereof To be viewed by his Most Excellent Majesty collected and disposed under certain divisions Which being an unprinted Manuscript I shall only present you with his own Preface thereunto and the Chapters thereof SInce the decease of King Henry the 8. unto the time that the Government of this Realm of England did rightfully and happily descend upon our Soveraign Lord King James being conjoyned in the blessed band of Marriage with that Right High and Excellent Princesse Queen Anne the Queens Majesty that now is our Gracious Queen It pleased God that for the space of almost Threescore Years together this Realm happened to be governed either by a King within Age by a Queen marryed unto a Forreign Prince or by a Maiden Queen and not by a marryed King in his own and proper Right as now it is So that it is no marvel that the peculiar rights and Dutyes wherewith the Common Law of this Realm hath endowed the Quéens Majesty that now is as Quéen of this Realm of England should through so long want of a person able to claim and enjoy the same be almost forgotten and being put in Vse seem strange and new Neverthelesse the Records and Remembrances of Ages past which are the surest and most impartial preservers of Rights have not only redeemed the same from the injury of Time which by that rare accident had almost brought them to utter oblivion but may give also full satisfaction to all Objections which can be made against the title right and justnesse of divers things hitherunto not claimed by her Majesty which neverthelesse do clearly belong to her and considering the great blessing which by her means we enjoy do especially deserve to be continued and with all tendernesse preserved Amongst which upon search lately made it doth appear that by the Common Law of the Land Her Majesty hath right to claim and enjoy a Revenue hitherto not demanded by her called AvRvM REGINAE or QUEEN-GOLD Of the Nature of which the Treatise ensuing is written Divided into these Chapters following 1. That there is a Revenue belonging to the Quéens of England called AURUM REGINAE or QUEEN-GOLD 2. Touching the name of AVRUM REGINAE 3. What AVRVM REGINAE is in general 4. The Ordinance of AVRVM REGINAE and the Authority thereof 5. Observations upon the Ordinance de AURO REGINAE 6. That Quéen Gold is due out of all voluntary Offers or Fines made with the King 7. What a Voluntary Offer in this Case was interpreted to be by the Ancient Quéens 8. How a Voluntary Fine is proved by an Ordinance in the Red Book in the Exchequer 9. The several kings of voluntary Fines upon which Queen gold hath been paid 10. The proportion of Queen-gold upon such voluntary Fines 11. That Queen-gold is to be paid to the Queen by the party making Fine oVer and above the Fine wholly paid to the King 12. That the Queen-gold unreceived by her in her life is due to the King after her decease 13. That processe for levying AURUM REGINAE ought to issue out of the Kings Exchequer 14. That the Queen is to have her special Officers in the same Court for the making of such processe and recovery of this to her 15. That the same processe be such as is usual in the Kings case 16. That the Kings processe is first to be served before the Queens 17. That although the Kings Majestie release part or all of his Fine or deferr his processe for the same yet shall not thereby the Queens debt be either released or deferred without her consent 18. Out of how small Fines Queen-gold is due 19. That Queen-gold is due by the Common Law of the Land Upon King James his perusal of this Treatise he referred the Examination and Consideration thereof to his Chief Justice Popham and Sir Edward Cooke as we are since informed by the 12. Part of his Reports published after his death London 1656. during our late Anarchy pag. 21 22. relating the issue and result thereof in these ensuing words Pasch 4. Jac. Regis Note by the Commandement of the King it was ref●rred to Popham Chief Baron mis-printed for Chief Justice and my self What right the Queen which now is hath and in what cases to a right claimed by her called AURUM REGINAE that is to say Pro centum Marcis Argenti una Marca Auri solvend per illum qui sponte se obligat And upon consideration had of it by a long