单词 | receipt of the exchequer |
释义 | > as lemmasReceipt of the (King's or Queen's) Exchequer a. The main office for the reception and custody of moneys collected on behalf of the Crown or government (see exchequer n. 4a); the public revenue office. Also more fully (in English use) Receipt of the (King's or Queen's) Exchequer (also Receipt of Exchequer and variants). Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-office receipt1442 1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 62/2 Certayn Tailles reysid at the resceyt of your Escheker. 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 176/1 If Shirreffs..shall paie eny sommes of money therof att Kynges receite at Westminster, that than therof they have due allowaunce. 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 7 Thomas Roger hath receyved at the Receypt of the Kinges Exchequier..ccli. 1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vii. Prol. 265 One other also being of the receit was a furtherer thereof till his hart failed him. 1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1277 The magistrates in the publicke receit. 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 75 To levie the Kings debts, and to pay them into the receit duely and orderly. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 75 Thousands of lesser [rivers] that pay their tribute at the same time into the great receit of the ocean. 1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 97 Who will not receive clip'd Money,..whilst he sees the great Receipt of the Exchequer admits it. 1708 Act 7 Anne c. 7 Such part of the said Cheques, Indents, or Counterfoils as shall relate to the Bills so discharged or cancelled..shall be delivered back into the Receipt of Her Majesties Exchequer by the said Governor and Company. 1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Preamble A fine of £101. 15s. 11d., paid into the receipt of his said Majesty's Exchequer. 1820 Times 13 Mar. 4/1 Married. On Saturday last, at St.Mary's, Islington, William Scott Harvey..to Jessie Mary, third daughter of Charles Roberts, Esq., of his Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. vii. 683 The officer..was to reside at the Receipt of Exchequer. 1926 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4 9 176 The computation of the Receipt of the Exchequer refers to the method of dating the terms and not of dating the years. 1989 W. St Clair Godwins & Shelleys xxxix. 488 Perhaps he still had hopes of Westminster Abbey or St Paul's or at least of some official recognition for the last Yeoman Usher of the Receipt of Exchequer. < as lemmas |
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