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Description of Exchequer Offices and Duties
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Thomas Fanshawe, who followed his uncle as the King's Remembrancer, was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and gained his legal experience in the Middle Temple. Fanshawe sat in the Parliament of 1571 and five succeeding Parliaments.
The manuscript describes the duties of the Exchequer, of the 44 offices mentioned almost half were associated with the courts. The office of the Remembrancer is described at length. The document describes the various sources of income collected by the Exchequer and the organization of the 16th century court.
Temple University Library Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 4, January 1950.
Ms codex.
Modern leather binding.
Source unknown, 1960.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in March 2021 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.
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