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[1385] . [1.] If it please our lord king, the revenues brought by his ministers accountable yearly at the exchequer by right of his crown could be improved by a great amount if it please him to be advised about his gifts from these in future because they belong to his crown, and were so burdened by his forefathers and himself before this time, as can be seen. [2.] No sheriffs
governance of the realm by justices, escheators, subescheaters, coroners, sheriffs, undersheriffs and their clerks and ministers, taxers, subtaxers and their clerks, admirals of the fleets and their deputies, keepers and constables of the peace, castles and coasts, collectors and receivers of wool and their deputies, assessors and receivers of the ninth and other royal subsidies, barons of the exchequer
By comparison with the other kingdoms across Europe, England can be said to have enjoyed an advanced and highly centralised judicial system. By the late fourteenth century the administrative capital was Westminster and the judicial nerve centre itself (housing the courts of king’s bench, common pleas, exchequer and chancery) was Westminster Hall. As we saw in the previous
‘Flemish Crusade’ of 1383. For York’s army see Appendix A . 5 On 12 July, three valets received payment from the exchequer for ‘bringing news to the lord treasurer and others of the king’s council concerning the position and organisation of the duke of Lancaster
and archbishop when Henry attempted to claim for his exchequer the revenues traditionally paid by the Church for the support of his local officials. Thomas refused to accept this new practice and the king resentfully backed down [ 16 ]. Around the same time Henry demanded Thomas go back on his excommunication of William of Eynsford, a powerful landholder who had expelled some clerks who had recently been intruded
... 1 Messengers carrying the summonses to parliament were paid in the exchequer on 23 July (P.R.O. E403/555, 23 July). 2 This ‘hall’, or marquee as it is described elsewhere, was necessitated by the fact that Westminster great hall was in process of being rebuilt by
maintaining pleas, complaints or matters that are in the royal courts as contained more fully in the same […] statute, 24 however, the said Richard Knap, tailor, and Roger, usher of the exchequer, mutually confederate and bound to maintain […] and sustain false complaints within the county of Middlesex both between the lord king and a private party and between two private parties to destroy and oppress
not retain vacant bishoprics and abbacies for long, and thereby use the properties of the Crucified to fill the exchequer (as he later did, but far be it from him to do so any more). 34 Rather, he gave these without delay to honourable persons, obeying God. In addition, on the chancellor’s advice the king took to his favour and familiarity the canonical church of Merton, whose inhabitants were worthy of God. And he
the officials of the king, Rouen, 1291 Guillaume de Nangis, Chronique , vol. I, p. 282. [1292] At Rouen the commoners [ minor populus ] rose up against the magistrates of the exchequer and the king’s officers because of the evil way they had been squeezed for taxes beyond measure; they waged war against the officers in the city’s castle, destroyed the house where the
the Armagnac princes and the Burgundians and in 1422 became chancellor of the exchequer for the Dauphin Charles VII. No doubt, his experiences during the civil war, when the Cabochienne butchers murdered, imprisoned, and destroyed the property belonging to nobles like himself who supported the Armagnac cause (see [180]), would have redoubled his natural aversion as a nobleman to any uprisings from the lower