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Excerpt from The Judges of England, Vol. 6: With Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected With the Courts at Westminster, From the Time of the Conquest; Containing the Reigns of James I. And Charles I.; And the Interregnum, 1603 1660
It is true that the office of cursitor baron is, according to the general acceptation, as old as the Exchequer itself, whether the introduction of that department of the state is dated at the time oi'' the Conquest, or in the reign of Henry I. And for this there is some semblance of probability for the same duties which were, till a recent alteration'', entrusted to the cursitor baron, have been performed by some officer of the Exchequer from the most distant period. It has therefore not unnaturally been presumed that the executor of those duties in ancient times bore the same title as the officer of the present day. But if it were so, how is it that we never meet with the name of cursitor baron for more than five centuries after the introduction of the Exchequer? Is it not rather extraordinary that it never occurs in any ancient record? - that it is not mentioned in the elaborate history of the court by Madox? - and that it is not noticed in any subsequent work from the end of the reign of Edward II., at which Madox terminates his history, till the early part of that of J ames I.?
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It is true that the office of cursitor baron is, according to the general acceptation, as old as the Exchequer itself, whether the introduction of that department of the state is dated at the time oi'' the Conquest, or in the reign of Henry I. And for this there is some semblance of probability for the same duties which were, till a recent alteration'', entrusted to the cursitor baron, have been performed by some officer of the Exchequer from the most distant period. It has therefore not unnaturally been presumed that the executor of those duties in ancient times bore the same title as the officer of the present day. But if it were so, how is it that we never meet with the name of cursitor baron for more than five centuries after the introduction of the Exchequer? Is it not rather extraordinary that it never occurs in any ancient record? - that it is not mentioned in the elaborate history of the court by Madox? - and that it is not noticed in any subsequent work from the end of the reign of Edward II., at which Madox terminates his history, till the early part of that of J ames I.?
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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