Exchequer in the 12th Century

R. L. Poole

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780714615103
• eBook ISBN: 9781136243769
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

First Published in 1973. This volume contains the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford University in the Michelmas term of 1911. It references texts and commentaries such as The Dialogus de Scaccario, the black book and the red book of the Exchequer; the ancient treasury; use of tools like the Abacus, and the role of Exchequer at the King's Court.

INDEX

Abacus, The, 43, 44 n.2, 45–53, 56 f.

Abailard, Peter, 53.

Abbo of Fleury, 46, 47 n.2.

Accounts at the Exchequer, different sorts of, 127 f.; form of the account of the farm of the shire, 131 ff.; stages in the render of, 137 f.; the account on the roll, ch. vii.

Accounts, public, Commissioners for auditing, 10 n.

Adelard of Bath, 51–53, 56 f.; cf. 44 n.2, 50.

Agard or Agarde, Arthur, 6 n.2, 15, 16.

Agardus, see Algarus.

Aids, 128, 171.

Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, 54.

Algarus, bishop of Coutances, 55 n.2

Alienation of royal land; see Terrae datae.

Al Khuwarezmi, Mohammad ibn Músa (Algoritmi), 44 n.3, 53.

Amercements, 169 ff.

Anglo-Saxon laws, 21 n.2.

Anselm of Laon, 53, 56.

Approvers, 162 f.

Archer, T. A., 54 n.2.

Arithmetic, 42 f.

Assarts, 167.

Assay, 75–78, 110, 148, 173.

Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, 10, 190: see Tally-writer.

Aureus, 85.

Bale, John, bishop of Ossory, 4 f.

Barons of the Exchequer, 102 f., 117, 139, 141, 143, 146, 147, 174, 177 ff., 183 f.; cursitor baron, 190.

Bernard the king’s writer, 123 f.

Bernelinus, 47.

Bezant, 85, 88.

Bigelow, Melville M., 138 n.2.

Black Book of the Exchequer, The, 5, 6 n.1, 13.

Black Book of the Exchequer, The Little, 13 f., 15, 96.

Blank payment, 30–33, 60–66; see Assay: automatic blanching, 32, 158 ff., 164, 173.

Boethius, 42, 46, 47 n.1, 52.

Boroughs, accounts of, 127, 135, 155, 157, 172.

Bower thane (burþegn), 22 ff.

Brigham, Nicholas, 4.

Brown, Thomas; see Thomas.

Brunner, H., 68 n.2.

Bubnov, N., 46; cf. 43 n.1, 47 n.1.

Calculator, 109 f.

Chamber, The, 24, 94, 97, 106.

Chamberlain, 22–26, 35 f., 97, 99; the two chamberlains, 25 f., 72–75, 107, 113; lands held by, 35 f.; emoluments of their deputies, 80, 82; the offices abolished, 90 f. see William Mauduit; Herbert; Geoffrey of Clinton.

Chancellor, 96, 104 f., 111 n.1, 185 f, 187 ff. ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• I. Texts and Commentaries.
• II. The Ancient Treasury
• III. The Reckoning of the Exchequer
• IV. The Treasury of Receipt
• V. The Exchequer Board
• VI. The Sheriff's Account
• VII. The Great Roll of the Year
• VIII. The Exchequer and the King's Court
• Index