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III. On the Origin of the Title and Office of Cursitor-Baron of the Exchequer. In a Letter addressed to Lord Viscount Strangford, F.R.S., V.P

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Edward Foss Esq.
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I am induced to address your Lordship, not so much on account of the general interest you have always taken in antiquarian researches, as presuming that, from your descent from a Chief Justice of the reign of Henry VII., and your possession of his Sergeant's Ring, with the first known instance of a posy inscribed, you will have a special regard to those inquiries which relate to legal history. Your connection also with a Chief Baron of the Exchequer of the last century warrants me more particularly in calling your Lordship's attention to the following observations with reference to the title of an officer of the latter court, which I trust may be worthy of the consideration of our Society.

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Archaeologia , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , 1855 , pp. 23 - 32
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1855

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page 23 note a Sir John Fineux, Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 11 Henry VII. 1495, to 17 Henry VIII. 1526.

page 23 note b “Suæ quisque fortunæ faber.” Lloyd's State Worthies, 82. Notes and Queries, vii. 188.

page 23 note c By Stat. 3 and 4 William IV. c. 99, some of these duties are transferred to the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts.

page 24 note a Stat. de Finibus Levatis, 27 Edw. I. Statutes of the Realm, i. 129.

page 25 note a Madox's Exchequer, i. 199, 200.

page 25 note b Ibid. i. 54.

page 25 note c Rot. Pat. 5 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 17.

page 25 note d Statutes of the Realm, i. 287.

page 25 note e Rot. Parliamentorum, iii. 498.

page 25 note f John Cockayne; William Babington; John Juyn; Peter Arderne; Humphrey Starkey; John Fitz-James; and Richard Broke.

page 26 note a Rot. Parl. iii. 58.

page 26 note b Ibid. iii. 102.

page 26 note c Fortescue, De Laudibus (Ed. 1741,) 115.

page 26 note d Statutes of the Realm, iii. 457.

page 26 note e Nicholas Lathell. Rot. Parl. vi. 97.

page 26 note f John Darnall. Dugdale's Chronica Series, 86.

page 26 note g Dugdale's Orig. Jurid. 129, 130.

page 26 note h Ibid. 125.

page 27 note a Stowe's London, 332.

page 27 note b Dugdale's Chron. Series, 94.

page 28 note a Dugdale's Orig. Jurid. 149.

page 28 note b Ibid.

page 28 note c Rymer's Fœdera, xvii. 388, 512, 540.

page 29 note a 2 and 3 Jac. I. in the Record Office, Carlton Gardens.

page 30 note a These instructions seem to have remained in manuscript till 1658, when they were published under the title of “The Practice of the Exchequer Court, with its several Offices and Officers. Written at the request of the Lord Buckhurst, some time Lord Treasurer of England. By Sir T. F.” pp. 23–34.

page 30 note b I find that these words are also used in a manuscript, exhibited to the Society on its next meeting after this Paper was read, which is stated to be written in 1572. It seems more probably to have been written in 1600; and with regard to the fourth Baron, it adopts precisely the same description as that given by Sir Thomas Fanshawe.—Proceedings, III. 121.

page 31 note a Considerations for regulating the Exchequer. Per C. Vernon, de Scaccario Dom. Regis, 1642, p. 33.

page 31 note b “Baron Tomlinson's learned speech to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, when they came to be sworn at the Chequer.” London: printed in the year 1659.