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in London, for which the City must pay six horseshoes and 61 horseshoe nails – these are over 550 years old, since after being rendered to the King's Remembrancer they are preserved in his office, and with the permission of the Crown they are loaned to the Corporation of London to be rendered again
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where a mark was made on a stick with a blunt knife for each payment counted. When payment was complete the stick was split down the middle, leaving each party with half of the marked stick and creating a receipt (or foil and counter-foil). After the knives are tested the Remembrancer pronounces
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presents the horseshoes and nails and counts them out to the Remembrancer who then pronounces "Good number." The knives are tested by the King's Remembrancer by taking a
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in length, and bending it over the blunt knife and leaving a mark, and the stick is split in two with the sharp knife. This practice stems from the creation of
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in the 1550 charter to the City, which extended its jurisdiction over the outlying parts of Southwark. This quit is rendered by the Foreman of the City's
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These two quits are paid together as one ceremony, during which a black-and-white chequered cloth is spread out – it is from this that the word "
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no longer sits as a judge, the Remembrancer is the oldest judicial position in continual existence. The post was created in 1154 by
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John Leslie, February 2014 – 19 October 2014 (Acting Queen's Remembrancer pending appointment of a permanent Remembrancer)
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The third quit rent dates from 1327, and is for £11 in regard to the reserved interest of the Crown for the 'town of
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Henry Stevens, 23 October 1708 – 25 June 1709. Temporarily appointed by the Barons of Exchequer while the rights of
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The Exchequer Court is reconstituted every year for the three ancient ceremonies of the "Rendering of the
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The oldest dates from 1211, where the City pays service for two pieces of land, of which the oldest is
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directed the King's Remembrancer to appoint commissioners to supervise the planting of trees in the
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HATTON, Christopher II (c.1581-1619), of Clay Hall, Barking, Essex and Kirby Hall, Northants.
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who then count, weigh and otherwise measure a sample of 88,000 gold coins produced by the
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is a ceremony dating from 1249, formerly held in the Exchequer Court, now in
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19 October 1983: pg. 14. The Times Digital Archive; accessed 9 July 2013.
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Letter from Chief Clerk to the Queen's Remembrancer dated 23 January 2014
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to the office were settled; Charles, who had the next reversion, was a
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This article is about the English office. For the Scottish office, see
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1641 – c. 1642 (deprived of office by Parliament as a Royalist)
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The King's Remembrancer is responsible for nomination of the
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Crawley, Sussex: Reprographic Centre, 1979, pp. 51–73.
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for this annual payment. It was specifically retained by
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King`s Remembrancer: Memoranda Rolls and Enrolment Books
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Robert St John Fitzwalter Butler, 16th Baron Dunboyne
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Index

The Remembrancer
King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer
England and Wales
Lord Chancellor
King Henry II
Exchequer Court
Richard of Ilchester
Bishop of Winchester
Senior Master of the King's Bench Division
High Court
Quit-rent
Quit Rents
City of London
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
Great Roll of the Exchequer
St Clement Danes
Strand
Exchequer
sheriffs
Comptroller
Solicitor
City of London
hazel
cubit
tally sticks
Southwark
Edward III
Edward VI
Court Leet

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