Janus: Exchequer Accounts

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.5748	Joseph Collins: Principles of a polite education
MS Add.5749-5750	Sir George Howard Darwin: Papers
MS Add.5777	Cambridgeshire Collectanea
MS Add.5778	Poems of John Donne
MS Add.5779	Commonplace Book
MS Add.5780	Exchequer Accounts
MS Add.5781-5783	Robert Sadd: Account Book and Ledgers
MS Add.5784-5861, 5864-5867	James Plumptre: Papers
MS Add.58	John Edwards: Fragment of a discourse against the Church of England
MS Add.5862	Huntingdonshire Collections
MS Add.5863	Praelectio
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Exchequer Accounts

Title	Exchequer Accounts
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.5780
Creator	Exchequer
Covering Dates	1758–1759
Extent and Medium	1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

The Exchequer was divided into two parts. The lower Exchequer, also called the Receipt, was responsible for receiving and dispensing public revenue. The upper Exchequer was a court that sat twice a year to check the accounts. The volume relates to the lower Exchequer.

Statement of Exchequer receipts and payments, 6 October 1758 - 5 October 1759, 121 folios. On fo. 1v is the bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin 1881. On the inside cover: 'Hodgkin sale Lot 495'.

Purchased 1914.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Exchequer Accounts, MS Add.5780

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