Function of the English Exchequer in the 12th century
Date Submitted: 03/16/2004 19:38:09
Category: / Business & Economy / Economics
Length: 4 pages (1011 words)
Category: / Business & Economy / Economics
Length: 4 pages (1011 words)
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…to the chief justiciar and ultimately the King. The Exchequer functioned as a bureaucratic organization with records being written and taxes collected in an organised, literate way and was not only a sign of the development of a feudal system in England but as a precursor to the modern state.
References
Clanchy M. T, From Memory to Written Record, 2nd ed. Cambridge 1989
Richard son of Nigel, The Course of the Exchequer, trans. C. Johnson, London 1950.
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