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COURT OF EXCHEQUER


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/305

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: COURT OF EXCHEQUER

Date(s): 1671-1833

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 production units.

Name of creator(s): Court of Exchequer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Court of Exchequer originated after the Norman Conquest as a financial committee of the Curia Regis (the King's Court). By the reign of Henry II it had become separate, and was responsible for the collection of the king's revenue as well as for judging cases affecting the revenue. By the 13th century the court proper and the exchequer or treasury began to separate. The court's jurisdiction over common pleas now steadily increased, to include, for example, money disputes between private litigants. A second Court of Exchequer Chamber was set up in 1585 to amend errors of the Court of the King's Bench. These were amalgamated in 1830 when a single Court of Exchequer emerged as a court of appeal intermediate between the common-law courts and the House of Lords. In 1875 the Court of Exchequer became, by the Judicature Act of 1873, part of the High Court of Justice, and in 1880 was combined with the Court of Common Pleas (source of information: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Court of Exchequer, comprising Exchequer bill; roll of estreats of fines and forfeitures at the sessions of the peace for London and Middlesex; and record book relating to the King's revenue.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For other records of the Court of Exchequer see ACC/0589 and ACC/0975.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Court of the Exchequer | Courts | Administration of justice
Court records | Records (documents) | Records and correspondence | Information sources
Court rolls | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Estreat | Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Fines (penalties) | Penalties | Administration of justice
Quarter sessions | Courts | Administration of justice
Revenue | Public finance | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names
Court of Exchequer

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe