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Example sentences for "exchequer"

Lexicographically close words:
exchanger; exchangers; exchanges; exchanging; exchaunge; exchequers; excidio; excipt; excise; excised
  1. Carteret, and walked in the Exchequer Court, discoursing of businesses.

  2. The fines which they lay in cases where the law assigns any fine to the judge shall be for our exchequer and treasury, and for no other person.

  3. The expenses here are for the most part extraordinary, and of small sums, as the royal exchequer cannot allow more owing to its limited resources, as I have already said.

  4. Penalty: damages of the parties and twenty pesos for the exchequer and court-rooms.

  5. And Cade has the Exchequer Office on his side, where accounts are still partially kept after this most barbarous fashion.

  6. I value him as I Would an exchequer or a magazine.

  7. Apart from the drain upon the exchequer caused by the employment of these hundred thousand men, the inevitable moment at which it would be necessary to close the workshops was regarded by everyone with alarm.

  8. Exchequer ever since the time of Queen Mary.

  9. In the Exchequer Rolls of the 32nd of Henry III.

  10. We command that without delay, you take into your hands our City of London, with the County of Middlesex, and London Bridge in like manner: so that the issues of the same be answered for to us at our Exchequer at our pleasure.

  11. Appealed by the Government this decision was upheld by the Court of Exchequer in November.

  12. The first move by the Association was planned to be made in connection with the Alexandra case when, as was expected, the Exchequer Court should render a decision against the Government's right to detain her.

  13. If, again, as Herapath said, the Government had done nothing to promote railways, they had not been backward in seeking advantage from them in the interests both of the Exchequer and of the Post Office.

  14. Making Shrewsbury his head-quarters, and moving the exchequer and king's bench to it, he summoned troops not only from all England, but from Gascony.

  15. The chancellor of the exchequer was to seal ail writs of Judaism, and account to the attorneys of the Prince for the amount.

  16. It is followed by a series of exchequer records, called the Pipe Rolls, which begin in the reign of Henry I.

  17. For Ireland, besides the state papers, there are the Calendars of Patents and of Fiants, and for Scotland the Exchequer Rolls and Registers of the Privy Council and of the Great Seal, both extending to many volumes.

  18. Twice in every year the sheriffs and other royal officials came up to the exchequer court, which originally sat at Winchester, with their bags of money and their sheaves of accounts.

  19. The Liberals, who complained that their leaders were pursuing a Conservative policy, could at least console themselves by the reflection that the chancellor of the exchequer was introducing satisfactory budgets.

  20. In this way the exchequer grew into a law court of primary importance, instead of remaining merely a court of receipt.

  21. He gave charters of a very liberal character to many places, and in especial to London, where the citizens were allowed to choose their own sheriff, and to deal directly with the exchequer in matters of revenue.

  22. When parliament met in 1610 the whole subject was discussed, and it was conclusively shown that, if the barons of the exchequer had been right in any sense, it was only in that narrow technical sense which is of no value at all.

  23. The only point on which they were agreed was that it would be highly desirable to strip the Church of most of her endowments, in order to fill the exchequer of the state.

  24. A period of exceptional prosperity, which largely increased the revenue, enabled a chancellor of the exchequer to boast that the country had drunk itself out of the "Alabama" difficulty.

  25. In January 1823 Vansittart was succeeded as chancellor of the exchequer by Robinson (afterwards Lord Goderich), and Huskisson became president of the Board of Trade.

  26. Another device of Edward for filling his exchequer was a very stringent enforcement of justice; small infractions of the laws being made the excuse for exorbitant fines.

  27. The drain of money to meet this combination of foreign war and domestic rebellion was more than the king's exchequer could meet.

  28. The most picturesque appointment was that of Lord Randolph Churchill, who was made chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons.

  29. The judicial system is described by Glanvill at the end of the 12th, and by Bracton and Fleta in the 13th century (for the exchequer see the Testa de Nevill and the Red Book of the Exchequer).

  30. The only remedy for both these evils is from the exchequer of your Majesty.

  31. He was ordered to give a writ, in order that the officials of your royal exchequer could hold it as title.

  32. The accounts of your royal exchequer have been audited this year, and are being sent with everything clearly expressed.

  33. Nevertheless, there is laxity in the declarations; and it would be of great benefit for your Majesty to order the officers of your royal exchequer to exercise great care in this, and to see that the disobedient suffer the penalties.

  34. A strong Tory, Duncombe held for a short time the office of receiver of the excise, and in this capacity he profited slightly by a transaction over some exchequer bills which had been falsely endorsed.

  35. The palatine exchequer was organized in the 12th century.

  36. Early in 1680 he obtained a royal grant of the barony of the outlawed Macdougal of Freuch, and the grant was after some delay confirmed by subsequent orders upon the exchequer in Scotland.

  37. Its exchequer was empty; its counsels were divided; above all, it had alienated the sympathies of the worthiest patriots of Greece.

  38. These were the records from which he derived his statements--the official returns of the Treasury; and if false, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was present to contradict them.

  39. In the year 1303, the exchequer was robbed, and of no less a sum than one hundred thousand pounds, as is pretended.

  40. Footnote 81: On the argument of that case in the Exchequer the judgment of Baron Smith was delivered with an ability scarcely ever rivalled.

  41. Some years ago, a suitor in the Court of Exchequer complained in person to the chief baron, that he was quite ruinated, and could go on no further!

  42. Baron Monckton, of the Exchequer (an importation from England), was said to understand black letter and red wine better than any who had preceded him in that situation.


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