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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
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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
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Letter from Chief Clerk to the Queen's Remembrancer dated 23 January 2014
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336:The King's Remembrancer presents newly appointed
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1060:The Law Society Gazette
951:. The National Archives
896:R. Sewell and E. Lane,
878:nationalarchives.gov.uk
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680:John Ritchie, 1980–1982
665:B.A. Harwood, 1965–1970
327:Royal Courts of Justice
1203:Baron of the Exchequer
799:www.guildablemanor.org
599:, December 1901 – 1905
593:, 1886 – December 1901
258:Other responsibilities
1336:Stop of the Exchequer
1320:Dialogus de Scaccario
1288:Exchequer of the Jews
1137:The National Archives
708:Steven Dixon Whitaker
702:Robert Lockley Turner
654:Richard Frank Burnand
573:Henry William Vincent
368:List of Remembrancers
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82:Quit Rents ceremonies
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1142:The Trial of the Pyx
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579:William Henry Walton
437:Sir Christopher More
409:Richard of Ilchester
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131:the following year.
68:Bishop of Winchester
64:Richard of Ilchester
41:Queen's Remembrancer
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1309:Exchequer Standards
1243:King's Remembrancer
1238:Lord High Treasurer
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474:Sir Thomas Fanshawe
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319:Master of the Rolls
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1283:Exchequer of Pleas
1228:Clerk of the Pells
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649:, 1951–1957
643:, 1947–1950
637:, 1943–1947
631:, 1937–1943
625:, 1927–1937
618:, 1920–1927
612:, 1912–1920
605:, 1905–1912
587:, 1874–1886
581:, 1858–1874
510:Vere Bertie
439:, 1542–1549
396:August 2008
346:Approbation
161:stick, one
147:Comptroller
126:, near the
1356:Categories
1326:Pipe rolls
1088:The Lawyer
763:References
690:Ian Warren
476:1619–1641
385:incomplete
362:Quit Rents
321:and other
306:ceremony.
298:(i.e. the
292:Merseyside
288:Lancashire
232:Royal Mint
228:Goldsmiths
187:Court Leet
179:Edward III
113:Shropshire
109:Bridgnorth
94:Quit Rents
86:See also:
76:High Court
1266:Divisions
1179:Exchequer
1113:(comp.),
996:The Times
749:Citations
422:John Port
358:Exchequer
348:from the
300:sovereign
280:sovereign
242:In 1688,
183:Edward VI
175:Southwark
151:Solicitor
136:Exchequer
105:The Moors
88:Quit-rent
1186:Officers
1177:English
1094:20 March
1066:20 March
1038:20 March
980:16 March
955:16 March
920:16 March
826:Archived
727:See also
531:Jacobite
338:Sheriffs
304:Pricking
272:Cornwall
266:to each
140:sheriffs
356:of the
350:monarch
325:at the
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282:), and
153:of the
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268:county
202:jurors
195:Crowns
128:Strand
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887:ODNB
854:2008
806:2020
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