Exchequer papers of Sir William Herrick, Teller of the Exchequer of Receipt
The papers listed below comprise official records kept by Herrick in his period of office at the Exchequer. They once formed part of a larger group of papers that included Herrick's family letters, official business papers, and records relating to his Leicestershire estate, held at Beaumanor, purchased by Sir William Herrick and in the 19th century the seat of the Perry-Herrick family.
Dates
- Creation: 1616-1623
Extent
3.63 Linear metres (33 physical shelfmarks)
Language of Materials
- English
- Latin
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark, e.g. MS. Eng. hist. c. 1292, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. hist. b. 244(R)-248(R), b. 249, c. 1292-1318
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 6893
Abstract
Exchequer papers of Sir William Herrick (1562-1653), one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer of Receipt, 1616-23; with one book of certificates, 1608-16, of his predecessor Sir William Bowyer.
Biographical / Historical
Sir William Herrick (1562-1653), also sometimes spelt Hericke, Heyrick or Eyricke, was a goldsmith, moneylender, MP for Leicester, and a teller of the Exchequer of Receipt, 1616-23. For further details see the Dictionary of National Biography under Hericke.
The Exchequer of Receipt was the divsion of the Exchequer concerned with the receipt and payment of the King's moneys, as distinct from the Upper Exchequer (or Exchequer of Account) which was concerned with audit.
Arrangement
John Gough Nichols (1806-73) described the Exchequer papers in an article printed in the Athenaeum , no. 2235, 27 August 1870, in which he stated that the principle of his arrangement of the papers was to bind the loose items where possible into volumes of a uniform size, which could be placed alongside some papers already bound into volumes and retaining their original early 17th-century bindings (the receipts of the Exchequer, MS. Eng. hist. c. 1312, and the receipts and payments of the Exchequer, MSS. Eng. hist. c. 1313-17). The first sixteen volumes of the sequence thus created, comprising orders on the Exchequer and receipts (MSS. Eng. hist. c. 1292-1307) were calendared and indexed by Joseph Burtt (1818-76), assistant keeper of the Public Records, in 1859, and this calendar and index appears as volume 17 in the sequence. This document (MS. Eng. hist. c. 1308) is kept on the open shelves in the Special Collections Reading Room at R. 6. 94t. J. G. Nichols states incorrectly in his article in the Athenaeum that the index covers the nineteen volumes that precede it, which would include the debentures paid at the Exchequer (MSS. Eng. hist. c. 1309-11). The debentures are not indexed, and are numbered 1 to 3 on their spines, clearly in a different sequence to the orders and receipts and their calendar and index, numbered 1 to 17.
Other Finding Aids
A calendar and index (MS. Eng. hist. c. 1308) of the orders on the Exchequer and receipts (MSS. Eng. hist. c. 1292-1307) is R. 6. 94t.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 15 Dec. 1988, lot 20, with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, MGC/V & A Purchase Grant Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Friends of the Bodleian, and the Friends of the National Libraries.
- Title
- Exchequer papers of Sir William Herrick, Teller of the Exchequer of Receipt, 1616-23
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Michael Webb
- Date
- 2002
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Conversion to EAD supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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