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.
Henry I, also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's
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…were laymen. When the Exchequer was established is not known, but the earliest mention appears in a royal writ of 1110 (during the reign of King Henry I), addressed from Roger of Salisbury and Ranulf the Chancellor to the barones de scaccario (Barons of the Exchequer). The oldest surviving Pipe Roll…
13th-century depiction of Henry
Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, site of the 1091 siege
Henry's first wife, Matilda of Scotland
Early 14th-century depiction of Henry