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

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with such persons as he shall call to him which are here too long to set downe particularly and therefore are referred to the said Articles Answer The certainty whereof may be knowne by the Articles themselves XXV Question Hee hath used before the uniting of the sayd Court of augmentation and the first fruits and tenths in all great matters of the Courts sometimes to confer with the Chancellor and under Treasurer alone and some times with them and the Barons and sometimes with them and the Kings learned Councill and some times with them all and the two Remembrancers and Clerke of the Pipe about the same what were best to be done But since the uniting of the sayd Court according to the Articles of uniting the same he hath used much to conferre and joyne with the Chancellor and Vice-Treasurer upon all forraine matters Causes and Actions of the Court that stand not in plea Suits or Judgement before the Court but come in question order and determination by the sayd union and shall call such Officers as shall please them to consider and determine upon the same Answer I have seen no written direction for this course but undoubtedly he may and will call any Officer unto him to conferr with for his Majesties service and determine of matters according to Justice XXVI Question Hee alone and he and the under Treasurer by his discretion as I take it do survey and order all the Receits and all the Officers and matters thereof and of the Treasury and do direct payments and stayes of payments by their discretion and do examine all receits coming in and going out of the receit but can suffer no penny to go out but by privy Seal or great Seale from the Prince or by decree or Writ from the Court that sometime cometh so about by the Judgement of the same He hath divers other authorities by old and new Statutes both alone and with others which are referred to be found out by learned Counsell that have abridged the same Answer I have not much experience in the Receipt but I do hold it for certainty that none of the Treasure may be payed out without good warrant from the King And I have seen by record and otherwise that some misdemeanors there committed have examined and ordered in Superiori S. Here I was required as I understood by the Messenger to set downe by what Warrant and authority the things before specified were done I have endeavoured to performe that according to my best understanding as before appeareth And where I was required also to set down what other authorityes be in this Lord so it is that I Authorities in the Lord Treasurer have observed by reading of the Records of all Kings times that he hath been taken for a very great Officer and chief of the Exchequer amongst which concerning his ancient generall Authority and Duty I finde these words written of him Adquem spectat de commodis domini Regis curare ut ejus disdendia viteut prospicere By which and by his oath his generall duty and authority may be conveniently and reasonably conceived and gathered And touching his other authorities that be not before mentioned I thinke there be some by Statutes and some by Commissions or privy seales concerning his Office in the Exchequer which I do not take upon me to set downe least I by forgetfullnesse should omit some of these I know and might omit diverse others having not beene made acquainted with them and to my best remembrance they be most of them joynt with others and am of opinion that if when any thing shal be offered unto him or required of him to be done It will please him first to require the sight and understanding of his Warrant in that behalfe his Lordship shall in short time finde and know his authorityes that hee will require in such cases whether it be by Act of Parliament or any other way and I for my part will be ready to declare my simple knowledge and experience in every case And what hath beene done by the two last Lord Treasurers I suppose that the next hath seene either already or heard himselfe or shall by some other hear of it And if his Lordship shall finde just cause to understand by what Warrants and Authority they did so he may easily understand of it by some of his Majesties Officers The Chancellor HE is an Officer thought by many to have beene placed in the Exchequer to have qualified all matters of extremity and rigour between the Prince the Subject and the party with Conscience and equitie But yet I never saw nor have heard of any Record ever made in the Exchequer in that case by order direction or qualification He hath in Court the proper place of the Bench above the Lord Treasurer He in the Lord Treasurers absence doth in Court in the Exchecquer Chamber all things to the Kings most benefit and furtherance He in the Lord Treasurers absence if the Barrons and learned Counsell of the suitor doe much presse any matter against the King or that he findeth there is some learning in the case doth pray that it may stay untill the Lord Treasurer be made privie and the Kings learned Councell may be conferred with and the presidents of the Court may be shewed upon the same He maketh warrants to any of the remembrancers to make all manner of commissions processe and iniunctions as the case requireth aswell as the Lord Treasuror doth He by the late Lord Treasuror and Sir Richard Sackvills order and agreement had referred unto him the oversight and rule of the Court of first fruits and Tenth of all compositions bonds mattes and canses of the same He in the Lord Treasurors absence for orders and Commandements in Court for the benefit of the Prince and case of the Subject and suitors hath ever done commonly that the Lord Treasuror useth to do He hath ever used in great causes of the Court to make the Lord Treasuror privie and to confer with his Lordship about the same He being Vice-treasuror also after the death of the Lord Treasuror and while a new Lord Treasuror be made doth all things which the Lord Treasuror both in the Exchequer and Receipt doth use to do Under-Treasurer IS an Office erected of late in the time of King H. 7. And whether it was of the Kings nomination first or of any Lord Treasuror it is not known But it is said that Sir Robert Mitton Knight that was then the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer was the first Vice-treasuror that was ever made and had no patent thereof but Sir Iohn Baker when Thomas Duke of Norfolke was made Lord Treasuror in H. 8. time being nominated Vice-treasuror after Sir Robert Mitton did procure a Patent thereof under the great Seale of England and was the first that had a Patent of the same office He in King H. 7. time as I have heard say the report of the remaine of the Treasure
the uniting of the late Court of uniting of first Fruits and Tenths to the Court of Exchequer at Westminster 1 FIrst Her Highness doth ordain that all the Records of the said Court of the first Fruits and Tenths shall be hereafter placed in the said Exchequer and shall be of the same force and strength as they were in the said Courts of the said first fruits and Tenths Item her highness is pleased and ordaineth that there shall be in the said Exchequer a certain Office called the Office of the Remembrancer of the first Fruits and Tenths which Office for divers and sundry great considerations for and at the first erection only shal be exercised by two persons by her highness to be nominated which shall joyntly exercise the same office during their lives and after the death of the Survivor of them the said office to be exercised by one of them Item That all Records belonging to the same court of the first Fruits and Tenths shall be in the charge and keeping of the said Officer Item That the said Officer shall make and deliver the true values of all spirituall promotions dignities and benefits within the Realm of England and Wales and other the Queens Dominions to such persons as shall sue for them taking for the same like fees as were wont to be paid before the dissolution of the first fruits and Tenths Item The same Officer shall take composiions of the first Fruits of every Arch Bishop prick Arch-Desconry Deanry Prebendary Parsonage Vicaridge and of every other dignity office benefice promotion spirituall aforesaid 6. Item The same officer to make all writings obligatory Indentures and all other writings concerning the same first fruits and tenths and shall see the same sealed and delivered by the parties to the Queens highness use and also shall make Acquittances and other discharges to such as shal pay their mony in hand without making bonds for the same taking fees accustomed of the parties for the same Lord Treasurer 7. Item The said Lord Treasuror to call such persons as shall please him to his assistance at the declaration of the foresaid accounts or any officer or auditor of the same Court that to them shal be thought meet for the passing of the same accounts 8. Item The accountant or accountants that shall not come to determin his or their accounts in form aforesaid his or their goods and lands shall be seised to the Queens use nomine districtionis and shall loose the benefit thereof and that shall have the allowance of the same in discharge of his debt according to the ancient custom of the Exchequer 9. Item all Sci. fac attachments and writs of distresses for debts or accounts concerning the premisses shal be made by the Treasurers Remembrancer from time to time as to the discretion of the Court in that be half shall be thought meet and convenient according to the ancient custom and course of the Court. 10. Item All Letters Patents of any Mannors land tenements or other hereditaments or concerning any annuities pardons or other such like shal be inrolled in such office of the said Exchequer as by the discretion of the Lord Treasurer and the said Court shal be appointed the parties to pay fines according to the ordinance and statute in that behalf provided 11. Item All recognizances of payments of any farm or any debt of or for any part of the premisses to be inrolled in the Remembrancers office and to be taken in the open Court when the Term is open if the Term be not open then by the chief Baron and in his ablence by any of the Barons and by force of a Dedim Potestat if necessity shall require taking for every such recognizince taken out of the court 6 s. 8 d. only whatsoever number of persons be bound in the same and for the entry of the same recognizance the said Remembrancer shall have and take for his fee of and for every Recognizance of 41. and upwards 3 s. 4 d and no other or more Fees to be taken for a Recognizance whatsoever number of persons be bound in the same 12 Item that the said Sheriffs or other accomptants shall yearly pay all such summes of money as shal be due to anie person or persons for any Annuities Fees pensions issueing or going out of any of the premisses according to their grants allowed and inrolled unlesse they shall have speciall Commandement by the Court to the contrarie 13. Item that the Farmors and Lesses shall be bound to the Queen and by Recognizance to performe their Covenants in their Leases in such forme as by the Court shall be ordered 14. Item all Warrants for leases to passe by the Lord Treasuror and if the yearly rent of the land to be letten shall be above the summe of forty shillings by the yeare then the same lease to passe under the great Seale of England and if the rent be above the value of 71. 13 s 4 d. then every such lessee to pay the Fees of the Signet and privy Seale as hereto fore in like Cases hath beene accustomed And if the land to be letten doe passe not the yearly rent of 40 s. then the Lease to passe the seale of the same Court of Exchequer paying 6 s. 8 d. to the Queens use 3 s. 4 d. to the Chancellor of the said Court and 4 d. to one appointed to Attend the seale for his Attendance and wax And the said Leases under the value of 40 s. to be alwayes made by the Clark of the Pipe and filed together for every yeare by themselves and there to be inrolled within the said Office as the said Clark of the Pipe may report the Indentures for the more surety of the parties taking for the inrollment as shall be ordered by the Court. 15. Item the said Lord Treasuror shall not have any Authoritie to make any lease in Reversion of any part or parcell of the premisses or of any woods or anie Mannors in grosse for the terme of certaine yeares without the Queens highnesse speciall Warrant to him to be directed in that behalfe and then Warrant to be made by the Lord Treasuror of England in forme aforesaid 16. Item the Lord Treasuror taking to him the Advice of the Chancellor under-treasuror and cheife Baron or two of them shall have Authoritie to assesse Fines for any Leases of any part or parcell of the premisses to be made by the said Lord Treasuror in forme aforesaid 17. Item the same Officer to write and make all manner of processe Commissions Entries Books Judgments and decrees of the Court with all other writings and miniments whatsoever aswell for the arrerages of such first fruits as for all Tenths and Subsidies of the Clergie due to her highnesse heires and Successors by such speciall persons their Sureties Farmers and occupiers taking therefore such Fees of the parties as were used before the dissolution of the same Court of first fruits and Tenthes 18.