X1X2X3The STATUTES of the EXCHEQUER.
Editorial Information
X1In those Editions which continue the Statutes beyond Edward II. several Articles have been placed between the Reigns of Edward II. and Edward III. under the Head of “Certain Statutes made during the Reigns of K. Henry III. K. Edward I. or K. Edward II. but uncertain when or in which of their Times.” The Number and Nature of the Articles so classed vary in the several Editions. Under the present Head (as printed in Statutes of the Realm) are now arranged all such Articles, the exact Date whereof appears uncertain, but which have been uniformly considered as made previous to Edward III. and which have been admitted either into any Edition of the Antiqua Statuta, or into any general Collection of the Statutes.
X2Two separate Articles intituled "Districtiones (or De Districtione) Scaccarii," and "Statutum de Scaccario" have most generally been attributed to the 51st Year of King Henry III; and in the modern Printed Copies have been distinguished as Statutes 4 and 5 of that Year. In Rastall's Collection, Edit. 1603, it is suggested that they were made in the Reign of Edward I. and this seems confirmed by the Reference to the "Statutum de Scaccario" in the Statute of 16 Ed. II. relating to the Form of sending Estreats into the Exchequer. The Various Readings marked MS. Cott. are from the Cotton MS. Claudius D.2. fo. 224. from whence these Articles were printed by Cay.
X3The original text of this Act was not modern English. The traditional translation appears first with obsolete characters modernised. The original text (as an image) appears second.