The Exchequer of Normandy or Exchequer of Rouen was the fiscal and administrative court of the Duchy of Normandy until the early 16th century.
The Salle de l’Échiquier, built in the 12th century in the château de Caen.
The new Parlement de Normandie in Rouen, which replaced the old exchequer of Normandy in 1508.
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
Exchequer of Normandy
…court of the Duchy of Normandy until the early 16th century. Surviving records show that the Exchequer of Normandy was operating in 1180, while the English Exchequer existed in 1110. No establishment date is known for either and therefore it is impossible to know which existed first. The Dialogue concerning the…
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.