Add MS 38419

LIVERPOOL PAPERS. Vol. CCXXX (ff. 79). Collection relating to the Exchequer. Contents: 1. "An Account of the nature of the Reciept of the Exchequer and of the methods observed therein"; temp. Anne. f. 1.

2. "Instructions proposed by the Lord Rochester [Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester] for Accompting"; 1685. f. 11.

3. "A Book of all the several officers of the Court of Exchequer, together with the names of the present officers . . . with a brief collection of the chief heads of what every officer usually doth," etc.; 1692. f. 26.

4. A similar account of the officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer; 1692. f. 52.

5. Rules and orders for the receipt and issue of money at the Exchequer, with documents illustrating the procedure, and tables of officers' fees; circ. 1692, but with a memorandum on f. 77 b relating to 1702. f. 59. Other copies of all the above artieles are contained in Add. MS. 24689 and Stowe MS. 327, f. 11. In Add. MSS. 36107, f. 47, and 36108, f. 39 are versions, temp. William and Mary, of art. 1. With some differences, and additions at the end, Egerton MS. 2436 and Harley MS. 3278 contain artt. 3-5; Add. MS. 30216, f. 5 has artt. 3 and 4; in the last MS. (f. 105) there is also a later version of part of art. 1. Small quarto. XVIII cent.; the date 1764 is given on f. 1. Bound in tooled red morocco, rebacked.

includes:

• f. 1 Exchequer: Accountant of the nature of the Receipt of the Exchequer: temp. Anne 1764.: Copy.
• f. 11 Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester: Instructions for accompting proposed by,: 1685.: Copy, 18th cent.
• f. 11 Exchequer: Instructions proposed by Lord Rochester for accompting, 1685.: 2nd half 18th cent.: Copy.
• f. 26 Exchequer: Book of the officers of the Court and Receipt of the Exchequer, etc., 1692. Copy: 2nd half 18th cent.