XVI.—Exchequer Tallies

Hilary Jenkinson

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XVI.—Exchequer Tallies

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Hilary Jenkinson

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The hoard of several hundred thirteenth-century Exchequer tallies, here brought to the notice of the Society, was found by the Office of Works during the recent repairs to the Chapel of the Pyx at Westminster, and transferred to the Public Record Office. A great deal of dust accompanied the tallies, and in this were found portions of some contemporary white leather bags of curious workmanship and a good many fragments of documents. Some of these fragments were of widely different dates and classes, and it seems probable that the whole constituted a collection of the sweepings, as it were, of the many series which at different times found a home in that important repository of records.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , 1911 , pp. 367 - 380

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900008213 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1911

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^{page 367 note 1} e. g. some early Returns of. Members of Parliament (Eng. Hist. Rev. April, 1910).

^{page 367 note 2} Madox, , Hist, of the Exchequer, ii. 258 (ed. 1769).Google Scholar

^{page 367 note 3} Hist, of Eng. Law, ii. 185Google Scholar.

^{page 368 note 1} The edition quoted here is that of Hughes, Crump, and Johnson.

^{page 369 note 1} It may be suggested that the tally convention is also responsible, among other things, for the term ‘stocks’ and for the cheque system.

^{page 369 note 2} i.e. in 1783.

^{page 369 note 3} Dialogus, ed. cit. p. 65.

^{page 370 note 1} Madox, , op. cit. p. 260Google Scholar.

^{page 370 note 2} Exch. of Receipt, Receipt Roll (Pells), 563.

^{page 371 note 1} Exchequer, , L. T. R. Memoranda R. 115, Hil. Rec. ro. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 372 note 1} None of these are of very great importance, except that referred to in note 4 below.

^{page 372 note 2} Ed. 1896, vol. i, p. 410.

^{page 372 note 3} P. 157.

^{page 372 note 4} See N. and Q. ser. vi, vol. iv, p. 492Google Scholar.

^{page 372 note 5} Proceedings, vol. xv, p. 313Google Scholar.

^{page 372 note 6} Archaeological Journal, vol. 59, p. 288CrossRef Google Scholar.

^{page 372 note 7} Parl. Rep. on Public Income and Expenditure, part ii, app. 13, p. 339.

^{page 372 note 8} App. ii, p. 166.

^{page 372 note 9} Ed. cit., p. 42.

^{page 373 note 1} This is probably a gloss, though the information conveyed is correct. See note on plate XLIX (2), below p. 377.

^{page 373 note 2} The very name of the early Receipt Roll (of parchment)— Pellis Recepte— is perpetuated in the nineteenth-century Receipt Book (of paper). Both tallies and the Records of the Exchequer of Receipt are remarkable, even among English archives, for their preservation of old conventions. See, below (p. 377), the remarks on plate L (2).

^{page 374 note 1} i.e. the cut (an English characteristic) half through the tally: this cut arrests the progress of the longitudinal slit when the latter has traversed about two-thirds of the tally, as may be seen in the illustrations.

^{page 374 note 2} Madox, loc. Cit.

^{page 374 note 3} Ibid.

^{page 374 note 4} Ibid.: Ryley, Placita Parliamentaria, p. 450.

^{page 374 note 5} They are the Tallie Innovate Rolls of the department of the Exchequer of Receipt.

^{page 374 note 6} Year Books, Rolls Series, 20 and 21 Edward I, p. 68.

^{page 375 note 1} Enrolled on Receipt Roll, Pells, 73, m. 5.

^{page 375 note 2} Upper, that is, with regard to the inscription on the stock or tally proper.

^{page 376 note 1} i.e. supposing the amount noted on the tally to be £11 11S. 11d, the £11 would appear on the lower side of the inscription on the stock, the us. 11s. 11d. on the upper. In the case of the foil the positions would be reversed, though the cuts would still be at the right-hand end of the inscription.

^{page 376 note 2} See the Introduction to the Dialogus (ed. cit.), p. 28.

^{page 379 note 1} With this curious word compare the modern French coche, meaning the mark on a tally: it survives in hop-scotch.

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