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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

Jurisdictions of our English and Irish Parliaments and all other Courts and Grand Officers whatsoever Civil Ecclesiastical Naval or Military the Soveraign Rights Titles of our Kings to the Crowns and all crown-Crown-Lands of England Scotland Ireland Wales France Normandy Aquitain Gascoign Britany the Isles of Oleron Jersy Gernsy Alderny Serke Man Anglesey Scilley Lundy and to the British Ocean the several Prerogatives Royalties of our Kings Queens Princes of Wales and Coun●y Palatines the Militia and Defence of our Realms by Land or Sea the Successions Endowments Revenues Priviledges Salaries of our Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Judges Officers of all sorts the Charters Foundations Confirmations Franchises of all kinds of Corporations the Appropriations of Churches the Creations Pedigrees Tenures Lands Services Fairs Markets Parks Chaces Warrens Royalties Customs Revenues of most of the English Irish Scotish Nobility and Gentry the Bounds Perambulations Assarts Deafforrestations of all Forests Chaces the Mints Stanneries Mines Coine Trade Exchanges Merchandize Government of England Scotland Ireland and Isles belonging to them the Treaties Leagues with Foreign Kings States sundry rare excellent Writs Prohibitions Proclamations Inquisitions Commissions Charters Letters of our Kings to Foreign Emperors Kings States Popes Cardinals and their Letters Bulls to them concerning State and Church affairs Cases Appeals and matters of Common Martial Marine Law Law of Merchants concerning Reprisals Depredations Arms Heraldry and whatever else may conduce to make heroick studious spirits accomplished Lawyers Heralds Historians Statesmen are comprised and rolled up in obscurity in our over-much neglected Records upon which account our Kings have had special care to preserve them as sacred and their best richest Treasures in the Tower of London and other places of greatest security If these Collections shall excite any Gentlemen of my Profession or others to a more industrious search study of Records or contribute any addition to the Dignity Splendor amplitude of our Common Laws the grand Supporters Preservers of the Crowns Scepters Royalties of our Kings and Queens as well as of the Subjects Liberties Properties Lives I shall repute my pains and cost sufficiently recompenced and be thereby encouraged through Gods assistance to voluminous publications of Records of another more general usefull subject wherein I am engaged for the Honour of our English Kings Kingdom Church Nation Laws against all Foreign and Domestick Usurpations on or Underminers of them From my Study in Lincolns-Inne March 25. 1668. William Prynne A Compendious TRACTATE CONCERNING AVRVM REGINAE The PROEME OBserving in my perusal of ancient Records in the Tower of London and Kings Court of Exchequer at Westminster many remarkable Patents Writs Cases Passages Resolutions and some Accounts concerning the most ancient eminent benefical Royal Prerogative of the QUEEN CONSORTS OF ENGLAND stiled AVRVM REGINAE or QUEEN-GOLD conferred on their Majesties by the Lawes of England as an Honorary contingent Revenue inseparably annexed to their Persons by virtue of their Marriage to our Kings intituling them to this and sundry other Regalities Prerogatives frequently mentioned in our Records and Law-Books Yet finding no Mention nor Discourse concerning AVRVM REGINAE in Sir Henry Spelmans Glossary or any printed Volume of the Common Law except only in Sir Edward Cooks posthumus Twelf Part of his Reports published in a time of Anarchy wherein he cuts off several rich Veins of this Gold Mine contracting it into such diminutive narrow limits not warranted by the Records there briefly quoted as render it inconsiderable unworthy the Title of a Royal Prerogative or the claim receit of any future Qu●●n Consorts notwithstanding their undoubted Right Title to this Golden Duty which he doth ingenuously acknowledge Upon this account I apprehended I could not perform a more acceptable loyal Service to the KINGS and QUEENS of ENGLAND or communicate a more desirable Piece of Antiquity Law to the Students or Professors of the Common Law then to present unto their View this Summary Chronological Collection of those rare Records I have met with which most perspicuously evidence the Quiddity Quality Quantity Antiquity Legality of this ROYAL DUTY of QUEEN-GOLD the Fines or Mines out of which it springs the Officers and Processe in the Kings Exchequer by which it was anciently received levied accounted for to the Queen Consort whiles living and to the King himself after her decease with other particulars that concern it necessary for the Exact Discovery knowledge recovery of this long discontinued concealed Treasure and reducing this old GOLDEN FLEECE into our new Queens Wardrobes and Cabinets In order whereunto I have here briefly digested all I yet know that concerns this Subject into these 6. ensuing Sections SECTION I. What AURUM REGINAE is as to its Quiddity Quality Quantity or Proportion THE first thing I shall present you with is a Brief Definition of Aurum Reginae as to its Quiddity Quality Quantity or Proportion Aurum Reginae is a Royal Debt Duty or Revenue belonging and accruing to every Queen Consort during her marriage to the King of England both by Law Custom and Prescription time out of minde due by every Person of what quality or calling soever within the Realms of England or Ireland who hath made a voluntary Oblation Obligation or Fine to the King amounting to Ten Marks or upwards for any Priviledges Franchises Dispensations Licenses Pardons Grants or other Matters of royal Grace or Favor conferred on him by the King arising from and answerable to the quantity of such his Oblation or Fine to wit one full tenth part over and above the intire Fine or Oblation to the King as one Mark for every ten Marks and ten pounds for every hundred pound fine and so proportionably for every other sum exceeding ten Marks Or one Mark of gold to the Queen for every 100. Mark fine in silver to the King being both one in value and proportion Which Summe becomes a real Debt and Duty to the Quéen by the Name of Aurum Reginae by and upon the parties bare agreement with the King for his fine without any promise to or contract with the King or Queen for this tenth part exceeding it which becomes a Debt on Record to the Queen by the very recording of the Fine This Definition or Description of Aurum Reginae the following Records in the 6. Section will both explain and confirm in all its branches to which for brevity I referr you SECT II. Why it was originally and till this day stiled Aurum Reginae THE true reasons as I apprehend why it was originally stiled Aurum Reginae were two First because Gold being the Queen best chiefest purest richest fairest durablest most desirable of all other Metals as Philosophers and Divines assert though paid with a greater proportion of Silver to our Queens or Kings gave the name or denomination of Gold to the intire summe according to the received Maxim Denominatio sequitur meliorem partem to which that of Horace may be applied Et

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

and other Debts and profits belonging to her as himself and his Officers had and enjoyed as his Father King Henry had granted her the like priviledge before in his life-time HENRICVS Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Thesaur Baronibus suis de Scaccario qui nunc sunt vel qui pro tempore fuerint salutem Ex parte Johannae Reginae Angliae nobis extitit intimatum quod cum Dominus H. nuper Rex Angliae Pater noster defunctus per Breve suum sub Magno Sigillo suo nuper mandaverit tunc Thes Baronibus suis de Scaccario quod omnia negotia querelae et agenda dictam Reginam tangentia occasione terrarum tenementorum firmarum feod Franches et Libertat eidem Reginae in dotem seu alias ad terminum bitae suae per Abum nostrum concessarum ac ratione AVRI et aliarum rerum suarum coram tunc Thes Baron in Scaccario praedicto deducta auditura expedita essent sicut propria negotia Patris nostri supradicti quod Ballivi Officiarii Ministri quicunque praedictae Reginae Feodor Franches Libertat praedict in omnibus quae ad officia negotia sua pertinerent necnon debitares AVRI et omnium aliorum denar seu s●mar praedictae REGINAE debit ut proprii Debitores ipsius Patris nostri ibi deducti essent et pertractati prout per irrotulament Brevis praedicti inter Memorand ejusdem Scaccarii plenius continetur prout in diversis Recordis ejusdem Scaccarii tempore Dominae Isaebellae nuper Reginae Angliae in Viduitate sua post mortem Domini E. nuper Regis Angliae Progenitoris nostri est compertum nobis est supplicatum ut eidem Reginae pro majori quiete et celeriori levatione denar et deditorum suorum quorumcunque Breve sub magno Sigillo nostro quod omnia negotia querelae Actiones etdemandae praefatae Reginae tangen tam occasione Castrorum Maneriorum Villarum Dominiorum Reddit terrarum tenementorum firmarum feod firmarum Custodiarum terrarum maritagiorum Custodiarum Prioratuum alienig firmar appor Prioratuum alienig parvarum magnarum Custumarum Franchesiarum Libertat aliarum rerum possessionum quarumcunque eidem REGINAE in dotem seu alias ad terminum vitae suae concessarum vel assign concedend seu assignand quàm occasione AURI aliarum denariorum firmarum feod firmarum et debitorum quorumcunque prafat Reginae de tempore praedicti Patris nostri debitorum coram vobis una cum executione eorundem per Iudicium seu Mandat proprium ut propria negotia nostra quod Ballivi Officiarii Ministri Reginae praedict Cur. Castrorum Maner Villarum Dominiorum praedictorum in hiis quae ad eorum officia pertinent Ac debitores ejusdem REGINAE AVRI praedicti denar firmarum feod firm reddit appor aliorum debitorum quorumcunque eidem Reginae debita debend in Scaccario praedicto durant vita ejusdem Reginae tanquam Ballivi Officiar et Ministri ac debitores nostri deducantur audiantur pertractantur et expedientur omnimodo dignaremur Nos supplicationi praedict annuentes Vobis mandamus quod omnia negotia querelas actiones et demand praefatam Reginam tangen tam occasione Castrorum Maner Villarum Dominiorum reddituum terr ten firm feod firm Custodiarum terr et maritag Custod terrarum et appor Priorat alienig parbarum et magnarum Custum Franches Libertatum et aliarum rerum et possessionum quorumcunque eidem Reginae in dotem seu alias ad terminum vitae suae concess vel assign concedend seu assignand quam occasione AVRI denar firmar feod firm reddit appor et aliorum debitorum quorumcumque eidem REGINAE ut praedictum est debit et debend Ac etiam Ballivos Officiar Ministros ejusdem Reginae Castrorum Maner Villarum Dominiorum praedict in hiis quae ad officia sua pertinent tanquam Ballivos Officiar et Ministros nostros proprios necnon debitores AVRI REGINAE praedicti Ac denariorum firmar feod firmar reddit appor et aliorum debitorum praefatae Reginae quorumcunque ut praedictum est debit et debend coram vobis in Scaccario praedicto ut debitores nostros proprios quamdiu nobis placuerit deduci audiri pertractari et expediri fac Teste meipso apud Westm. quinto die Decembris Anno regni nostri quinto Per Concilium What effects this Writ produced appears by the premised Recognition of Thomas Dokes In the Records of King Henry the 7th in the Exchequer I have hitherto met with little of moment concerning Queen-gold but only this memorable Patent of his Queen Consort Elizabeth to Edmund Chaderton Clerk constituting him Receiver General of all her Lands Revenues Annuities Rents and Fee-farms and likewise of her Queen-gold signified to the Barons by Thomas Earl of Ormond her Chamberlain MEmorandum quod Thomas Comes Ormond Camerar Dominae Reginae Angliae venit coram Baronibus hujus Scaccarii 12 die Julii hoc Termino in propria persona sua exhibuit Curiae hic 5 quasdam Literas Patentes praefat Dominae Reginae Edmundo Chadderton Clerico de Officio generalis Recept ipsius Reginae confect petens ex gratiâ Cur. literas illas irrotulari Barones illos irrotulari praeceperunt in haea verba scilicet Elizabetha Dei Gratiâ Regina Angliae Franciae Domina Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae nostrae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac de fidelitate circumspectione et industria dilecti fidelis Capellani nostri Edmundi Chaderton Clerici plenius confident 5 Constituimus et Ordinavimus ipsum Edmundum Generalem Receptorem nostrum omnium Castrorum Honorum Dominiorum Maneriorum Terrae Ten. Reddit Firm Feod Firmarum Annuitat AVRI vocat Quene Gold ac aliarum Commoditat nostrarum quarumcunque nobis pertinen seu spectan jam in manibus nostris existen quae ad manus nostras imposterum devenient Et ulterius officium Generalis Receptoris nostri praedict praefato Edmundo damus et concedimus per praesentes Ac etiam volumus tenore praesentium Authoritatem damus et concedimus praefato Edmundo dimittend approvand omnia praedict Castra Honores Dominia Maneria Terr Ten. ac caetera praemissa cum pertinentiis ad manus nostras ad proficuum commodum nostrum 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 antedictorum secundum suam discretionem prout sibi melius videbitur pro nostris commodo et proficuis ac de Recept suis acquietan nomine suo dand sigilland Habend tenend occupand officium praedictum à festo Sancti Michaelis Anno

time and view of all the Records and Presidents viz. Libr●m Rubrum in Scaccario fol. 56. it should be 46. de Auro Reginae where it is said That it is to be taken De iis qui sponte se obligant Regi c. which is the foundation of this Claim and of a Record in the Tower 52 H. 3. and of a Record in the Exchequer Hill 12 Ed. 3. and in the Tower in the same year in Rot. Claus and of Acts of Parliament 15 E. 3. cap. 6 31. E. 3. cap. 13. and the 13 R. 2. in Turri and divers other Presiden●s and Processes out of the Exchequer in the times of R. 2. and H. 4. and other Kings until the time of H. 7. It was Resolved that the Quéen hath right to it but with these limitations 1. That it ought to be sponte by the Subject sine coactione so that this ought to be at the pleasure of the Subject whether he will give or no And for this all Fynes upon Judgement or by off●r or Fyne for alienation or in any other case where the Subject doth not do it sponte sine aliqua coactione viz. That the King of Right ought to have it there the Quéen shall have nothing 2. It ought to be sponte fine consideratione allcujus reventionis seu interesse that the King hath in esse in jure Coronae and for this upon sale or demise of his Lands or Wards or Goods of Felons Out lawes Et simili casu for these are Contracts and Bargains concerning the Revenues and Interests of the King and it cannot be said in such case that the Subjects sponte se obligant as to purchase or buying any the Revenues and Interests that the King hath 3. It ought to be sponte super considerationem et non ex mera gratia et benevolentia Subditi For that which is of mere Grace is not properly said of Obligation or Duty and the words of the Records are to have de iis qui sponte se obligant and so it was ordained by the King and his Counsil as appears by the Record of Hill 4. E. 1. in Scaccario 4. It ought to be sponte super considerationem quae non longe reventionem seu interesse Coronae in any thing which the King hath as if the subject give to the King sponte a summ of money for license in Mortmain or for to create● a tenure of himself or to have a fair Market Park Chace or warren within his Mannor there the Quéen shall have it For the Subject did this sponte and was not constrained unto it and this doth not concern any revenue or interest of the King but if the King hath a Fair or Market or Park or Warren and grant it for a summ of money there the Queen shall have nothing for this was a thing in esse and parcel of the revenue of the Crown And by that it appears that forasmuch as little or nothing is given in such case where this of right is due this is not now of any such value as was pretended And this Resolution was reported to our soveraign Lord the King by Popham in the Gall●ry at Whitehall If this Report of these two Referrees concerning Queen-gold be true and genuine and not vitiated or corrupted with some additional restrictions since superadded to it which I suspect yet it is most clear by both their resolutions That Queen Anne had then a RIGHT UNTO this duty of Queen-gold and that it is due of RIGHT from some sort of Fines and Oblations specified in the fourth resolution But by reason of those limitations put upon it by this Report he saith this is not now of any such value as was pretended And that the ●oundation of this her claim was the Red Book of the Exchequer and other Records then viewed and briefly quoted in the Report Whether they perused those or any other Records I know not but had they viewed all those here transcribed I am very confident they would never have reported to King James that the Queen shall have nothing or no Aurum Reginae by offer or ●ine for Ali●nations or for sale or demise of his Lands or Wards Goods of Felons or Outlaws and the like for these are contracts and bargains concerning the Revenue and Interest of the King and it cannot be said in such cases that the Subjects sponte se obligant Since most of the forecited Records expresly averr the contrary against which there can or ought at least to be no averment especially by such eminent Judges and Lawyers as those Referrees then were What further proceedings were used by the Queen or her Counsil for the recovery of this her unquestionable antient legal Duty of Queen-gold after this Report I cannot certainly determine neither the Queen nor her Counsil being satisfied with most of the limitations therein specified since diametrically repugnant to the Records they produced to justifie her Right thereto Sir Edward Cooke in his 4 Institutes p. 357. printed since his death cites the premised Patent of King Henry the 3. to Prince Edward his eldest son Pat. 52 H. 3. m. 26. whereby he granted him the Land of Ireland with all its appurtenances adeo liberè quietè sicut tam in manu nostra teneremus per quod charissina filia nostra Alianora Consors dicti fili nostri AURUM SUUM tam de finibus quam de sponte oblatis in terra H●berniae habere debet sicut charissima Consors nostra Alianora Regina Angliae AURUM SUUM habet de eisdem in regno nostro Angliae Vobis mandamus c. From whence he observes That albeit the Wife of Prince Edward was not Queen of Ireland by name yet she had the effect of it therefore she should have a Duty called AURUM REGINAE as well as the Queen of England being but La●y in Ireland For albeit the King of England was untill the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 1. stil●d by the name of Lord of Ireland yet was he supremus absolute Dominus and had Royal Dominion and Authority and that his Consort was in rei veritate REGINA or else she could not have had AURUM REGINAE A clear confession and acknowledgement that the Queen-Consorts of England by their Prerogative as Queens had an an●ient right to Queen-gold not only in England but Ireland too before the Kings of England were 〈◊〉 Kings of Ireland much more then since 33 H. 8. which changed their Title of Lord into King of Ireland In the 11. year of K. Charles the 1. upon the Petition of Mary his Queen-Consort after a full hearing and debate of the Antiquity and Legality of this Royal Prerogative of AURUM REGINAE before the King and Queen by their learned Counsil at Law and the reading of several Presidents and Records produced by them relating thereunto the King was pleased to send this Writ to the Treasurer and Barons of his Exchequer for the levying

et supra ab initio promissis De his igitur ad praesens cum modestia quia re nondum terminata suspensa resolutio est Litigat sane de his pars REGINAE cum debitoribus et adhuc sub Iudice lis est De misericordia 4 Iudaeorum et de redemptione Monetariorum for falsifying clipping and abusing the Kings coin sicut desponte oblatis dictum est sua portio secundum formam praedictam REGINAE debetur Discip Nunquid in pecuniariis sponte oblatis Clerici Laici sine differentia coerceantur Magister In sponte oblatis apud omnes Lex una servatur ut sive Clericus sit sive Laicus qui non solvend● fuerit donec satisfecerit careat impetrato Observatur etiam idem in omnibus aliis quae quovis pacto Regi debentur c. To which I shall subjoyn this passage in his Dialog 2. c. 23. Quid de sponte offerentibus faciendū cum ipsi non solvunt The Queens Gold arising out of such Oblations Noveris igitur quod oblatorum Regi quaedam in rem quaedam in spem offerentur In rem quidem offerri dicimus cum oblatum à Rege suscipitur offerens consequenter pro quo obtulit à Rege suscipit Vt si quis pro libertate aliqua profundo vel pro firma vel pro custodia cujusque qui minor est aetatis usque ad annos legitimos habenda vel pro quovis alio quod ad suam utilitatē vel honorem accedere videatur sponte Regi Centum libras vel Centum Marcas offerat et assentiente Regi statim post oblatum suscipiat optatum De his qui spontè se obligant qui conventionem cum Principe factam possidere jam ceperint lex nostra decernat ut quamdiu solvendo fuerint indultis sibi beneficiis gaudeant utantur Quod si de Regis debito summoniti solvere desierint statim careant impetratis ut si manente Scaccario super eadem satisfecerint oblata omnia sine molestia restituantur In spem verò dicantur offerri cum quis exhibendae sibi justitiae causa super fundo vel redditu aliquo Regi summam aliquam offert non tamen ut fiat ne in nos excandescas venalia penes eum Justiciam dicas immò ut sine dilatione fiat c. From this Record and Discourse concerning Queen gold stiled in subsequent Records in the Exchequer An Ordinance and Statute to which the Barons and Queens Officers had recourse in succeeding times in Cases concerning Aurum Reginae I shall observe 1. That Aurum Reginae was a Debt Duty Revenue belonging to the Queen-Consorts of England by the Law Custom of England time out of mind long before the reign of King Henry the 2. the beginning whereof is altogether u●known But if I conjecture aright it had its original not from the Earls Dukes of Normandy who were no Kings nor their Wives Queens and so could neither create nor denominate this Royal prerogative of Aurum Reginae but from the Roman Emperors whose Wives had the Titles of AUGUSTA DIVA AUGUSTA as the Emperors had of AUGUSTUS DIVUS AUGUSTUS and the SAME PRIVILEDGES with the EMPEROR And that our famous Queen Helena daughter to King Coell wife to the Emperor Constantius who kept his Imperial Court and died at Yorke where he begate the most renowned Christian Emperor Constantine the Great on the body of this first Christian Queen and Empresse in the world canonized afterwards for a Saint for her piety bounty to the Church and finding out the Holy Crosse whereon Christ was crucified was the first who enjoyed this Royal Duty whereof she was most worthy and being stiled REGINA as well as AUGUSTA might well derive the Name of AURUM REGINAE thereunto This munificent Queen as she built the walls of London and Colchester as our Henry Huntindon stories so Nicephorus Callistus Petrus Ribadeniera Capgrave and others relate that she built three Magnificent Temples in the Holy Land the first near Mount Calvary in the place where she found the Crosse whereon our Saviour Christ was crucified the second at Bethlehem where he was born the third upon Mount Olivet in the place from whence he ascended into heaven besides 27 Churches and Oratories more in other places which she endowed with rich gifts giving likewise large Alms to poor people So large was her revenue whereunto it is probable this Duty of Aurum Reginae made some addition To which Nicephorus subjoyns Quam ob causam condigna etiam à Deo accepit praemia Etenim in praesenti hac vita ea est consequuta ut praestantius quidquam nemo ei accidere potuisse putaret Nam AUGUSTA renunciata est ET NUMMOS AUREOS SUB EFFIGIE SUA PROCUDIT a badge or emblem of Aurum Reginae Imperialibusque Thesauris in potestate sua redactis pro arbitrio suo est usa as our Queens use their Aurum Reginae which if I mistake not had its Original in and from this our glorious Queen and Empresse as both the Roman Emperors and also our Kings of England derived their GOLDEN CROWNS from the Emperor Constantine her Son as Mr. John Selden proves at large in his Titles of Honor. 2ly That Aurum Reginae is due to the Queen out of all sums of Mony or Fines voluntarily offered and assented to by the King for any Liberty lands farm Custody Wardship or other thing redounding to the parties profit or honor and for fines for speedy Justice amounting to or exceeding the sum of 10. Marks which though then a point unresolved disputed between the Queens Officers and those who were to pay this Duty who pretended it not due unlesse it were a Fine of 100 Marks or more yet it was soon after and ever since frequently resolved to the contrary as the subsequent Records will inform us 3ly That the proportion of Aurum Reginae is one Mark of Gold out of every hundred Marks of Silver due to the King that is one full tenth part over and above the intire Oblation or Fine to the King to wit one Mark for ten Marks and ten pounds for every hundred pounds without any deduction from or diminution of the Kings Oblation or Fine from which it is distinct and so proportionably for any other sum above 10 Marks 4ly That at the same instant when any party makes a voluntary Oblation or Fine to the King he becomes an actual Debtor for this Aurum Reginae to the Queen by the Law and Custom of the Realm though it be not expresly promised nor agreed 5ly That the Queen is to have her special Clerk or Officer in the Exchequer to receive and recover this Duty for her use 6ly That the Processe for the recovery thereof if not voluntarily paid ought to issue out of the Kings Exchequer in the same course and manner as Processe doe