Exchequer
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The UK Exchequer is part of the machinery of government, defined as 'the legal and accounting entities which support the UK's spending and revenue activities'. The term is used for the accounting proc
An 18th-century view of New Palace Yard, home of the English Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th century: the building to the right of Westminster Hall housed the Court of Exchequer, the buildings to the left housed the offices of the Exchequer of Receipt.
The Exchequer of Ireland in the fifteenth century.
Tally sticks were issued by the Exchequer as a receipt for money paid in (the amount being recorded both in writing and in 'notches', cut into the wood). Pictured are the 'stocks' issued to the depositor; a parallel 'foil' would have been separated from the stock at the time of issue and kept by the Exchequer.
Part of the record of payments for the County of Lancaster in the Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of King Richard I, Michaelmas 1194.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the f
Exchequer
…Exchequer (the Treasurer thus having overarching oversight). During the first part of the 13th century (by 1248 at the latest) the distinct office of Chancellor of the Exchequer emerged. At around this time the Chancery was increasingly gaining independence from the Curia Regis. The king's Chancellor (subsequently termed…
John Healey Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024
Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860
Chancellor of the Exchequer's robe now at Hughenden Manor. (Reputedly made for Pitt the Younger, it was handed down to each of his successors but kept by Disraeli, forcing Gladstone to purchase a replacement).
Bishop Walter Stapledon Exeter Cathedral