Star Chamber Stories (Routledge Revivals) by G.R. Elton

Author:G.R. Elton [Elton, G.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Modern, 16th Century
ISBN: 9781136989131
Google: ZIfFBQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-01-14T17:03:46+00:00

every day, after business hours, to bring Tuke a ‘bill of the reckoning of receipts and payments of that day’ together with the cash in hand (if any) ‘sealed in a bag… and on the bag a label mentioning not only the whole content of the bag but also the natures of all kinds of monies in the same.’* Tuke entered the details in his own monthly book of receipts and payments and filed the clerks’ certificate. The money was stored in an iron chest, ‘standing in the surest place of his house’ and provided with two locks; Tuke had one key and his chief clerk the other. To avoid all possible mischance, no one man — not even the treasurer himself—ever had possession of both keys at any time. If there was more money in the chest than Tuke thought ‘meet to remain in his house’, he had it conveyed to the royal treasury in the Tower where it remained at his disposal. If the day’s receipts sufficed for the day’s payments, the money in the iron chest was not touched; if not, the necessary money was taken out of it and immediately entered as paid. What matters here is the daily report rendered to Tuke at supper-time; this, too, was transcribed from the file, showing that on 18 June 1537 the Chamber received £255. 17s. 11d. and paid out £229. 2s. 5d., there remaining £26. 15s. 6d. for the iron chest. Those paying in were Bettes and Pawlshed, collectors of customs, Brewer, receiver for Bedford lands, Salamon, receiver for Warwick lands, Barton and Peter Freshewell, paying debts on bonds, and Mr Cely, unspecified. There received money that day Sir John Shelton, steward of the princesses’ Household (£26. 12s. 4d.), Thomas Berthelet, the king’s printer (£23. 4s. 2d.), Morgan Wolff, another of the king’s goldsmiths (£75. 4s 11d.), Robert Grymhyll, a

* I.e. what coins the cash was in. This enabled the clerks to prove the payment in angels on 18 June.

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