The book The Antiquities And Curiosities of the Exchequer was written by author Hall, Hubert, 1857-1944 Here you can read free online of The Antiquities And Curiosities of the Exchequer book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Antiquities And Curiosities of the Exchequer a good or bad book?
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— A Charter surren- dered to the Crown. Treasure and Records. S7 Fig. II. — Oath of Fealty, etc. Fig. 12. — A Royal Marriage. Fig. 13. — An Usurer. Fig. 14. — John, Earl of Holland, Richard II. 's half-brother, and a fashionable Courtier. Fig. 15. — Alice Ferrers, Edward III. 's mistress. 58 Antiquities of the Exchequer. Fig. 16. — Westminster Abbey. Fig. 17. — The town of Yarmouth. Fig. 18. — Wales — a Welsh Mercenary. The records which figured most conspicuously round the Exchequer tables, or... which were in daily use in the Barons' chamber, or in the Receipt, comprise several of the most ancient and valuable classes extant. Besides Domesday Book itself and Treasure and Records. 59 the various other compilations intended to discover the liabilities of the mihtary tenants of the crown, such as the Red and Black Books of the Exchequer, the ' Testa de Nevill, ' the ' Book of Aids, ' and similar feodaries, there were precise statements of the royal farms payable by the sheriffs in every county, namely, the Exactory Roll (now entirely lost to us) and the assessments drawn up in the fourteenth century for a like purpose.
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