The funds of a government or institution or individual

Usage examples of exchequer.

We shall only observe that, in the act for the land-tax, and in the act for the malt-tax, there was a clause of credit, empowering the commissioners of the treasury to raise the money which they produced by loans on exchequer bills, bearing an interest of four per cent, per annum, that is, one per cent, higher than the interest usually granted in time of peace.

With reference to the lands attached to bishoprics the chancellor of the exchequer laid down this principle, namely, that if by the act of parliament to be introduced any new value was given to benefices, that new value not belonging properly to the church might be appropriated to the exigencies of the state.

Expenditure in excess of revenue is met by grants in aid from the imperial exchequer, so far as the Nyasaland Protectorate is concerned.

His wise and economical management of the finances filled the royal exchequer without increasing the burdens of the tax-payer, and it is probable that the early return of prosperity to Italy, which was described in the last chapter, was, in great measure, due to the just and statesmanlike administration of Liberius.

When the same question was put to Peter Thorneycroft, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, he blithely confirmed that the free trade area was indeed one of the proposals he would be putting forward at the bilateral Anglo-Canadian talks in Ottawa, scheduled to follow the Mont Tremblant conference.

Lord Wilcox and daughter of the Earl of Hendon, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

This plan after repeated discussions was agreed to, and the funds rose so high in consequence, that the chancellor of the exchequer was able to negociate a loan on advantageous terms to the public.

Subsequently, a bill, brought in by the chancellor of the exchequer, for regulating the orders in council, as they affected neutrals, was carried through both houses.

Its members were chosen from among the most zealous opponents of the Court officials-the great barons, the priors, the important abbots of the shires--and they were all men who had no connection with the Exchequer or the Curia Regis.

Rubinstein tried to show him how much the orbital extravaganzas cost the Palace exchequer in terms of its annual budget, but when he saw that Bobo was becoming bored, he wisely stopped.

Unlike in form to the great Roll of the Pipe, in which the records of the Exchequer Court had long been kept, the Plea Rolls consisted of strips of parchment filed together by their tops, on which, in an uncertain and at first a blundering fashion, the clerks noted down their records of judicial proceedings.

Mr Monk, who had consented to undertake the duties of Chancellor of the Exchequer under the urgent entreaties of the two dukes, was of course late with the budget.

Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer and other Ministers, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, all the more fashionable of the other Peers, Peeresses, and Members of Parliament, Generals, Admirals, and Mayors, with their wives.

So long as my boyars and burgomasters were honestthose who were not had their heads removedthe taxes were regularly stored by my exchequer officers in a special stone house in the village of Barovia until need arose to put them to use.

Because what I hadn't told Monk was that the carriageways and footpaths of Whitehall Palace were covered with coquina – it had crunched under my feet as I wove my way to the offices of the Exchequer.