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The Exchequer Year
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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When discussing the Exchequer Year in the Transactions for 1925 (4th Ser., Vol. VIII) I should have noticed certain of the contemporary endorsements on the early feet of fines. The practice of depositing in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer the foot of each tripartite chirograph commenced on 16 July, 1195, and some methodical arrangement had to be devised for preserving the feet of fines for convenient reference. The accumulation of each term and of each eyre was therefore filed separately; and the blank underside of the bottom document of each file was endorsed with an appropriate inscription, such as the following:— Cyrographa recepta anno VII, a festo sancti Michaelis usque ad Pascham:
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page 175 note 1 Feet of Fines Hen. II and Ric. I (Pipe Roll Soc), p. 21: Hoc est primum cyrographum quod factum fuit in curia domini Regis in forma trium cyrographorum … ad hoc ut per illam formam possit fieri recordum. Traditur Thesaurario ad ponendum in thesauro anno regni Regis Ricardi VI° die Dominica proxima ante festum beate Margarete.
page 175 note 2 Besides the endorsements quoted, see Palgrave, Antient Kalendars and Inventories, iii, 99 ff., English Hist. Review, XXXV, 408 n., 412 f. The terminal files consisted of the receipts during the term and not necessarily of the fines levied in that term; see notes below.
page 175 note 3 Feet of Fines Hen. II and Ric. I, p. 26.
page 175 note 4 Ibid., p. 176. The fine bearing this endorsement was levied 19 July, 1196: it was not deposited in the Treasury of the Receipt until 9 February following.
page 175 note 5 Feet of Fines 7 and 8 Ric. I, p. 94. This fine was levied 23 April, 1197, “ad Scaccarium Pasche”: nevertheless, it was not deposited in the Treasury until after Michaelmas.
page 176 note 1 Feet of Fines Hen. II and Ric. I, p. 79.
page 176 note 2 Trans., IV Series, Vol. VIII, pp. 179 ff. But note that there is no trace of this method under Henry II, ibid., p. 178.
page 176 note 3 Feet of Fines 9 Ric. I, p. 106: Cirographa recepta anno regni Regis Ricardi IX° de termino Pasche—endorsement on a fine levied on Thursday after the Quinzaine of Easter 9 Ric. I (16 April, 1198). Here the dates of the term and of the regnal year agree.
page 176 note 4 Besides the two examples given above, see Feet of Fines 10 Ric. I, p. 87.