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The '''Exchequer''' is a department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal ]. Hence, the ]; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low. | |||
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] Exchequer note, 5 Pounds, dated 6 August 1697]] | |||
In the ] of the ], '''His Majesty's Exchequer''',<ref name="InterpretationAct1978" /> or just the '''Exchequer''', is the ] process of central government and the government's '']'' (i.e., money held from ] and other government ]s) in the ].<ref name="EFPA1950" /> The term is used in various financial documents, including the latest departmental and agency annual accounts.<ref name="RPAAccounts201516" /><ref name="DEFRAAccounts201516" /><ref name="DFEAccounts201415" /><ref name="ScotAccounts201415" /> | |||
Historically, it was the name of a ]<ref name="EADA1866" /> responsible for the collection and the management of taxes and revenues, making payments on behalf of the sovereign, and auditing official accounts. It also developed a judicial role along with its ] responsibilities and tried legal cases relating to revenue.<ref name="Bryson" /> | |||
==History of the Exchequer== | |||
Exchequer is an English concept not a word. It is not an Office nor a role, it is a "Determination" put forward by the Pope. | |||
Similar offices were later created in ] around 1180, in ] around 1200 and in ] in 1210.<ref name="Howard" /> | |||
To be an "Exchequer" is not possible. To deliver the duty of "Exchequer" you must first be a "Judge" of and only of the Royal Crown. | |||
==Etymology== | |||
To "Judge" the Royal Crown you must and can only be part of the Royal family as the "Family Rights" must always be considered "First". | |||
The Exchequer was named after a table used to perform calculations for taxes and goods in the medieval period.<ref>{{cite book | last = Noble | first = Thomas | title = The foundations of Western civilization | publisher = Teaching Co | location = Chantilly, VA | year = 2002 | chapter = 36 | isbn = 978-1565856370 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/foundationsofwes04nobl}}</ref> According to the '']'' ('Dialogue concerning the Exchequer'),<ref name="Dialogue concerning the Exchequer" /> an early ] work describing the practice of the Exchequer, the table was large, 10 feet by 5 feet with a raised edge or "lip" on all sides of about the height of four fingers to ensure that nothing fell off it, upon which ] were placed representing various values. The name Exchequer referred to the resemblance of the table to a ] board (French: ''échiquier'') as it was covered by a black cloth bearing green stripes of about the breadth of a human hand in a ]. The spaces represented pounds, shillings and pence.<ref name="Dialogue concerning the Exchequer"> Internet Medieval Sourcebook publ by Fordham University, New York. Source: Joseph Hunter, ed., Rotuli Selecti, (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1834), pp. 4–5, 11; reprinted in Roy C. Cave & Herbert H. Coulson, A Source Book for Medieval Economic History, (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1936; reprint ed., New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1965), p.412</ref> | |||
The Second consideration is whether you know Law. If you are part of the Royal family and know Law then you can apply for its position but the family which makes such application on your behalf must have due regard to the holder of the "Right of Justice" and that is anyone so name before God to whose specific duty is to "Watch Darkness" and that person in the Royal Family in England would be named "Nigel" or as it would considered in Latin Roman translation as "Nero" or "Neron". | |||
The term ''Exchequer'' then came to refer to the twice-yearly meetings held at ] and ], at which government financial business was transacted and an audit held of ]s' returns. | |||
The First person in England to excercise the "Right of Exchequer" was Richard Fitz Nigel son of Nigel of Stafford Castle, Staffordshire 4th Viscount of Contentin who own by taking "288 Estates" through the Conquest of England by and before Duke William of Normandy. These Estates were considered to be "His Right" for excellance in "Conquest Duty". He exchanged his Estate worth for many other superior "Rights" to which one of these was for his son Richard, that he be given the duty of Exchequer. To this he received amongst the things he requested and Richard was "Duly" granted the "Right". To exercise this Right in principle he was given the Baronry of Malpas where he served as the District Judge of its County. | |||
==Exchequer of Normandy== | |||
In his service as Exchequer subject to the King he was responsible for many other great acts of "Law" commencement. One of these was to require "Case Law" to be document as a necessary requirement for King to understand. Furthermore to his service, He was "Judge of Common Pleas" marked the Institution of the Grand Jury in England for the Pope, and have started the "Court of Justices" while subject to the Court of Henry II. | |||
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The operation of an exchequer in Normandy is documented as early as 1180. This exchequer had broader jurisdiction than the English exchequer, dealing in both fiscal and administrative matters. The ''Dialogue concerning the Exchequer'' presents it as a general belief that the Norman kings established the Exchequer in England on the loose model of the Norman exchequer, while noting with some doubt an alternative view that the Exchequer existed in Anglo-Saxon times. The specific chronology of the two exchequers' foundings remains unknown. | |||
== Exchequer in England and Wales == | |||
He was also Dean of the "Lincoln Union", Bishop of London and Bishop Ely's Rectory. | |||
It is unknown exactly when the Exchequer was established, but the earliest mention appears in a royal writ of 1110 during the reign of King ].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Charles|last1=Johnson|first2=H. A.|last2=Cronne|year=1956|title=Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066–1154|volume=II|at=961}}</ref> The oldest surviving ] is that of 1130 (already in mature form, indicating that such records existed for some time beforehand, though they do not survive).<ref name="Bartlett" />{{rp|p.159}}<ref>Chrimes ''Administrative History'' pp. 62–63</ref> Pipe Rolls form a mostly continuous record of royal revenues and taxation; however, not all revenue went into the Exchequer, and some taxes and levies were never recorded in the Pipe Rolls.<ref name="Dict219" />{{rp|p.219}} | |||
Under Henry I, a procedure adopted for the ] involved the ] drawing up a ] to be sent to each ], who was required to answer with an account of the income in his ] both from royal ] lands and from the county ] (a form of local taxation). The ] then questioned him concerning debts owed by private individuals.<ref>{{cite book |last=Warren |first=W. L. |title=The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086–1272 |publisher=Edward Arnold |date=1987 |isbn=0-7131-6378-X}}</ref>{{rp|73–74}} | |||
He completed his term in office by writing the very famous the "Dialogue of the Exchequer" and "The Order, Diet and Welbeing of the King's Household", both written completed in 1180. | |||
By 1176, the 23rd year of the reign of ] which is the date of the '']'',<ref name="Dialogue concerning the Exchequer" /><ref></ref> the Exchequer was split into two components: the purely administrative ''Exchequer of Receipt'', which collected revenue, and the '']'', a law court concerned with the King's revenue. Appeals were to the ]. Following the proclamation of ], legislation was enacted whereby the Exchequer would maintain the realm's ] for the ] and ]. These nominal standards were, however, only infrequently enforced on the localities around the kingdom. | |||
''Exchequer is a "Right" only obtainable by English speaking people from the Pope of Rome as you apply to him before the Vatican on acquistion of a "Nom" (which means "House") unto which the Vactican requests or requires "Ratea". The Vatican defines what quanta "Ratea" you must pay, and this payment is made into its "Coffers". With the payment you may define within your "House" assign "Rights and Privilidges" to ensure the House pays its next "Fiduciary Duty" to the Pope which is required and it is called "House Dues". "Ratae" is not a "Once and only Payment" to the Vatican as "Ratae" and "Dua" are required to be paid upon Demand.'' | |||
From the late 1190s to the ] in 1290, there was a separate division for taxation of ] and the law-cases arising between Jews and Christians, called ] (Latin: ''Scaccarium Judaeorum'').<ref>Joe Hillaby (2003) "" In Patricia Skinner (ed.) ''Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary, and Archeological Perspective'', pp. 16–17. {{ISBN|0-85115-931-1}}</ref><ref>Gross, Charles (1887), ''''. London: Office of the Jewish Chronicle; reprinted from ''Papers of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exposition'', pp. 170–230.</ref> | |||
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Through most of the 1600s, goldsmiths would deposit their reserve of treasure with the Exchequer, sanctioned by the government. ] "shut up" the Exchequer in 1672, forbidding payments from it, in what ] described as "one of those monstrous frauds... this monstrous robbery". This ruined the goldsmiths and the credit of the Stuart government, which would never recover it. In 1694, the credit of ]'s government was so bad in London that it could not borrow, which led to the foundation of the Governor and Company of the ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bagehot|first=Walter|title=Lombard Street: a description of the money market (1873)|date=November 5, 2010|publisher=Henry S. King and Co. (etext by Project Gutenberg)| location=London| url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4359|quote="Charles II. shut up the 'Exchequer,' would pay no one, and so the 'goldsmiths' were ruined. The credit of the Stuart Government never recovered from this monstrous robbery."}}</ref> | |||
The records of the Exchequer were kept in the ], adjacent to ], until the 19th century. The office was named after the skins (then "pells" or pelts) from which the rolls were made.<ref>Urbanus Gentleman's Magazine, 1836, vol. 5, pp. 17–22, publ. W. Pickering.(book review) Google books</ref> | |||
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=== Reform and decline=== | |||
In the 19th century, a number of reforms reduced the role of the Exchequer, with some functions moved to other departments. The Exchequer became unnecessary as a revenue collecting department in 1834 with the reforms of Prime Minister ], who also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The government departments collecting revenue then paid it directly to the ], with all money previously paid to the Exchequer being credited to the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/9/section/1|title= Exchequer Extra Receipts Act 1868|publisher=UK Government|website= legislation.gov.uk|page=Section 1|access-date=15 November 2016}}</ref> | |||
In 1866, the ] of the ] took over metrological responsibilities<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Standards Department |volume= 25 |short=x}}</ref> and audit functions were combined with those of the ''Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts'' under the new post of ].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/29-30/39/section/5|title=Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866|publisher=UK Government|website= legislation.gov.uk|page=Section 5|access-date=15 November 2016}}</ref> The name continued as the ''Exchequer and Audit Department'' from 1866 until 1983 when the new ] was created.<ref>“The Audit Commission” by Couchman V. in Sherer & Turley: ''Current Issues in Auditing'', Paul Chapman Publishing (1997)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/44/contents |title=National Audit Act 1983 |publisher=UK Government|website= legislation.gov.uk|access-date=15 November 2016}}</ref> | |||
In modern times, "Exchequer" has come to mean the ] and, colloquially, ] possessions in general; as in "the company's exchequer is low".{{citation needed | date=October 2015}} | |||
== Exchequer in Scotland == | |||
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The Scottish Exchequer dates to around 1200, with a similar role in ] and royal ]s as in England. The Scottish Exchequer was slower to develop a separate judicial role; and it was not until 1584 that it became a court of law, separate from the king's council. Even then, the judicial and the administrative roles were never completely separated as with the English Exchequer. | |||
In 1707, the ] (] c. 53) reconstituted the Exchequer into a law court on the English model, with a lord chief baron and four barons.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Ann/6/53 |title=Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1707 |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> The court adopted English forms of procedure and had further powers added. This was done in Section 19 of the ]<ref>Section XIX, "And that there be a Court of Exchequer in Scotland after the Union, for deciding Questions concerning the Revenues of Customs and Excises there, having the same power and authority in such cases, as the Court of Exchequer has in England": {{ws|] at Wikisource}}</ref> | |||
From 1832, no new barons were appointed; their role was increasingly assumed by judges of the ]. By the ] (] c. 56), the Exchequer became a part of the Court of Session. A ] acts as a judge in Exchequer causes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/19-20/56 |title=Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856 |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> The English forms of process ceased to be used in 1947. | |||
==Exchequer of Ireland== | |||
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The ] developed in 1210 when King ] reorganized the governance of his ] and brought it more in line with English law.<ref name="Howard" /> It consisted of the ''Superior Exchequer'', a ] and revenue akin to the Exchequer of Pleas, and the ''Inferior Exchequer''.<ref name="Howard" /> The latter were the treasurers who handled all logistics from collecting the money (Teller or Cashier), logging it (Clerk of the Pells) and signing money orders accepting or paying money.<ref name="Thomas" /><ref name="MTH" /> It was managed by its own ] and ]. | |||
The ] existed from about 1299 to 1877. It was abolished under the ] and was merged, along with the ], the ] and the ], into the new ] (now replaced by the ]).<ref name="Howard" /> | |||
The ], the Republic of Ireland's equivalent of the UK's Consolidated Fund, is colloquially called the Exchequer when distinguished as a component of ] funding.<ref name="fiscalcouncil">{{cite book |chapter=Appendix E: The General Government Sector |chapter-url=https://www.fiscalcouncil.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Appendix-E-The-General-Government-Sector-2.pdf |title=Fiscal Assessment Report |publisher=Fiscal Council |location=Dublin |pages=102–103 |date=November 2016}}</ref> | |||
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<ref name="Dict219">Coredon ''Dictionary'' p. 219</ref> | |||
<ref name="Bartlett">{{cite book |author=Bartlett, Robert |author-link=Robert Bartlett (historian) |title=England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075–1225 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford, UK |year=2000 |isbn=0-19-822741-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/englandundernorm00bart_0}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="Bryson">{{cite book|last=Bryson|first=W.H.|title=The Equity Side of the Exchequer|publisher=]|year=2008|isbn=978-0-521-07659-3}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="MTH">{{cite journal|last=H.|first=M. T.|date=1932|title=Review: History of the Financial Administration of Ireland to 1817 by T. J. Kiernan|journal=Irish Province of the Society of Jesus|volume=21|issue=81}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="Thomas">{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=Francis Sheppard|title=The Ancient Exchequer of England; the Treasury; and Origin of the Present Management of the Exchequer and Treasury of Ireland.|publisher=J. Petheram|date=1848|oclc=465938569}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="Howard">{{cite book|last=Howard|first=Gorges Edmond|author-link=Gorges Edmond Howard|title=A treatise of the Exchequer and revenue of Ireland.|publisher=J.A. Husband|date=1776|volume=1|oclc=5111516}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="EADA1866">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/29-30/39/section/2 |title=Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="InterpretationAct1978">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/30/schedule/1 |title=Interpretation Act 1978 |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="EFPA1950">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1950/3/section/19#text%3DExchequer |title=Exchequer and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="RPAAccounts201516">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539094/ARAC_15_to_16_for_web.pdf |title=Rural Payments Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2015–2016 |website=gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="DEFRAAccounts201516">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/547296/defra-annual-report-2015-2016-web.pdf |title=Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Annual Report and Accounts 2015–16 |website=gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="DFEAccounts201415">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517766/DfE-consolidated-annual-report-and-a-counts-2014-to-2015-Web-version.pdf |title=Department for Education Consolidated annual report and accounts For the year ended 31 March 2015 |website=gov.uk |publisher=UK Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="ScotAccounts201415">{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0048/00486683.pdf |title=Consolidated Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 |website=gov.scot |publisher=The Scottish Government | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> | |||
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== Further reading == | |||
* Keir, D. L., ''The Constitutional History of Modern Britain 1485–1937''. Third Edition. A & C Black, 1946. | |||
* ] ''The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. | |||
* Warren, W. L., ''The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086–1272''. Edward Arnold, 1987. {{ISBN|0-7131-6378-X}} | |||
* ], 1666–1727; Fitzneale, Richard, 1130–1198; Gervasius, of Tilbury, supposed author (1711/1769), '''' Published 1769, etext on archive.org | |||
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923083450/http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_123/123_439_452.pdf |date=23 September 2009 }} | |||
* {{cite EB1911|wstitle=Exchequer |last= Spring-Rice |first= Stephen Edward |volume= 10 |pages= 54 - 58}} | |||
*{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=Francis Sheppard|title=The Ancient Exchequer of England; the Treasury; and Origin of the Present Management of the Exchequer and Treasury of Ireland.|publisher=J. Petheram|date=1848|oclc=465938569}} | |||
* nas.gov.uk | |||
* yale.edu | |||
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In the civil service of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Exchequer, or just the Exchequer, is the accounting process of central government and the government's current account (i.e., money held from taxation and other government revenues) in the Consolidated Fund. The term is used in various financial documents, including the latest departmental and agency annual accounts.
Historically, it was the name of a British government department responsible for the collection and the management of taxes and revenues, making payments on behalf of the sovereign, and auditing official accounts. It also developed a judicial role along with its accountancy responsibilities and tried legal cases relating to revenue.
Similar offices were later created in Normandy around 1180, in Scotland around 1200 and in Ireland in 1210.
Etymology
The Exchequer was named after a table used to perform calculations for taxes and goods in the medieval period. According to the Dialogus de Scaccario ('Dialogue concerning the Exchequer'), an early medieval work describing the practice of the Exchequer, the table was large, 10 feet by 5 feet with a raised edge or "lip" on all sides of about the height of four fingers to ensure that nothing fell off it, upon which counters were placed representing various values. The name Exchequer referred to the resemblance of the table to a chess board (French: échiquier) as it was covered by a black cloth bearing green stripes of about the breadth of a human hand in a chequer-pattern. The spaces represented pounds, shillings and pence.
The term Exchequer then came to refer to the twice-yearly meetings held at Easter and Michaelmas, at which government financial business was transacted and an audit held of sheriffs' returns.
Exchequer of Normandy
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The operation of an exchequer in Normandy is documented as early as 1180. This exchequer had broader jurisdiction than the English exchequer, dealing in both fiscal and administrative matters. The Dialogue concerning the Exchequer presents it as a general belief that the Norman kings established the Exchequer in England on the loose model of the Norman exchequer, while noting with some doubt an alternative view that the Exchequer existed in Anglo-Saxon times. The specific chronology of the two exchequers' foundings remains unknown.
Exchequer in England and Wales
It is unknown exactly when the Exchequer was established, but the earliest mention appears in a royal writ of 1110 during the reign of King Henry I. The oldest surviving Pipe Roll is that of 1130 (already in mature form, indicating that such records existed for some time beforehand, though they do not survive). Pipe Rolls form a mostly continuous record of royal revenues and taxation; however, not all revenue went into the Exchequer, and some taxes and levies were never recorded in the Pipe Rolls.
Under Henry I, a procedure adopted for the audit involved the treasurer drawing up a summons to be sent to each sheriff, who was required to answer with an account of the income in his shire both from royal demesne lands and from the county farm (a form of local taxation). The chancellor of the Exchequer then questioned him concerning debts owed by private individuals.
By 1176, the 23rd year of the reign of Henry II which is the date of the Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, the Exchequer was split into two components: the purely administrative Exchequer of Receipt, which collected revenue, and the Exchequer of Pleas, a law court concerned with the King's revenue. Appeals were to the Court of Exchequer Chamber. Following the proclamation of Magna Carta, legislation was enacted whereby the Exchequer would maintain the realm's prototypes for the yard and pound. These nominal standards were, however, only infrequently enforced on the localities around the kingdom.
From the late 1190s to the expulsion of the Jews in 1290, there was a separate division for taxation of Jews and the law-cases arising between Jews and Christians, called Exchequer of the Jews (Latin: Scaccarium Judaeorum).
Through most of the 1600s, goldsmiths would deposit their reserve of treasure with the Exchequer, sanctioned by the government. Charles II "shut up" the Exchequer in 1672, forbidding payments from it, in what Walter Bagehot described as "one of those monstrous frauds... this monstrous robbery". This ruined the goldsmiths and the credit of the Stuart government, which would never recover it. In 1694, the credit of William III's government was so bad in London that it could not borrow, which led to the foundation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
The records of the Exchequer were kept in the Pell Office, adjacent to Westminster Hall, until the 19th century. The office was named after the skins (then "pells" or pelts) from which the rolls were made.
Officers
- Auditor of the imprests
- Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer
- Baron of the Exchequer
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Chamberlain of the Exchequer
- Chief Baron of the Exchequer
- Clerk of the Pells
- Comptroller General of the Exchequer
- King's Remembrancer
- Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer
- Treasurer of the Exchequer
- Clerk of the Pipe
Reform and decline
In the 19th century, a number of reforms reduced the role of the Exchequer, with some functions moved to other departments. The Exchequer became unnecessary as a revenue collecting department in 1834 with the reforms of Prime Minister William Pitt, who also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The government departments collecting revenue then paid it directly to the Bank of England, with all money previously paid to the Exchequer being credited to the Consolidated Fund.
In 1866, the Standards Department of the Board of Trade took over metrological responsibilities and audit functions were combined with those of the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts under the new post of Comptroller and Auditor General. The name continued as the Exchequer and Audit Department from 1866 until 1983 when the new National Audit Office was created.
In modern times, "Exchequer" has come to mean the Treasury and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as in "the company's exchequer is low".
Exchequer in Scotland
Main articles: Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland and Court of Exchequer (Scotland)The Scottish Exchequer dates to around 1200, with a similar role in auditing and royal revenues as in England. The Scottish Exchequer was slower to develop a separate judicial role; and it was not until 1584 that it became a court of law, separate from the king's council. Even then, the judicial and the administrative roles were never completely separated as with the English Exchequer.
In 1707, the Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1707 (6 Ann. c. 53) reconstituted the Exchequer into a law court on the English model, with a lord chief baron and four barons. The court adopted English forms of procedure and had further powers added. This was done in Section 19 of the Act of Union 1707
From 1832, no new barons were appointed; their role was increasingly assumed by judges of the Court of Session. By the Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 56), the Exchequer became a part of the Court of Session. A lord ordinary acts as a judge in Exchequer causes. The English forms of process ceased to be used in 1947.
Exchequer of Ireland
Main articles: Exchequer of Ireland and Court of Exchequer (Ireland)The Exchequer of Ireland developed in 1210 when King John of England reorganized the governance of his Lordship of Ireland and brought it more in line with English law. It consisted of the Superior Exchequer, a court of equity and revenue akin to the Exchequer of Pleas, and the Inferior Exchequer. The latter were the treasurers who handled all logistics from collecting the money (Teller or Cashier), logging it (Clerk of the Pells) and signing money orders accepting or paying money. It was managed by its own Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
The Court of Exchequer (Ireland) existed from about 1299 to 1877. It was abolished under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877 and was merged, along with the Court of King's Bench (Ireland), the Court of Chancery (Ireland) and the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), into the new High Court of Justice in Ireland (now replaced by the High Court).
The Central Fund, the Republic of Ireland's equivalent of the UK's Consolidated Fund, is colloquially called the Exchequer when distinguished as a component of government funding.
See also
- Exchequer of Chester
- Exchequer Standards
- Fisc
- History of the English fiscal system
- Taxation in medieval England
- Red Book of the Exchequer
References
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- Keir, D. L., The Constitutional History of Modern Britain 1485–1937. Third Edition. A & C Black, 1946.
- Steel, Anthony The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954.
- Warren, W. L., The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086–1272. Edward Arnold, 1987. ISBN 0-7131-6378-X
- Madox, Thomas, 1666–1727; Fitzneale, Richard, 1130–1198; Gervasius, of Tilbury, supposed author (1711/1769), History of the Exchequer Published 1769, etext on archive.org
- Murray, Athol L, Burnett, Charles J., The seals of the Exchequer of Scotland. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. 123 (1993) 439–52 Archived 23 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- Spring-Rice, Stephen Edward (1911). "Exchequer" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 54–58.
- Thomas, Francis Sheppard (1848). The Ancient Exchequer of England; the Treasury; and Origin of the Present Management of the Exchequer and Treasury of Ireland. J. Petheram. OCLC 465938569.
- National Archives of Scotland guide to Exchequer Records. nas.gov.uk
- Dialogue concerning the Exchequer yale.edu