Great Chamberlain of Scotland

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Holders of the office of Great Chamberlain of Scotland (also Lord Chamberlain of Scotland ) have been known since about 1124. The camerarius dominis regis was placed third in the line of Great Officers of State by King Malcolm and received a salary of £ 200 a year. Originally, he collected the revenues of the crown, at least until Scotland a Treasurer ( Treasurer ) got to the it to the reinstatement of King I. Jacob in 1424, when he paid off the money necessary for the maintenance of the royal household, is no evidence.

The Great Chamberlain was empowered to judge all crimes that were committed in Burghs , as well as the crime of forestalling. The Great Chamberlain was chief judge in the Burghs and held annual court days, the form of which was laid down in the iter Camerarii . Its judgments and decrees could not be questioned by the lower jurisdiction. His decisions were implemented by the bailies of the Burghs. He also set the prices for community supplies and the fees of workers in the mints.

The Chamberlain lost his fiscal functions to the treasurer after 1425. His position was vacant from 1558 to 1565 and from 1569. It was occupied in 1580 for James I's cousin, Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox , whose appearance as Great Officer of State in 1581 was more due to his personal standing with the king than to his office. The office was then held by the respective Duke of Lennox , hereditary from 1603 until 1703 ad perpetuam remantiem Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond , 2nd Duke of Lennox, a two-year-old child, by and in favor of the Crown. No Great Chamberlain has been appointed since then. In 1711 the office was revived as the Commission of Chamberlainry and Trade , which expired with the death of Queen Anne (1714).

Lord Chamberlains

literature

  • Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, Director of Chancery, The Staggering State of the Scots' Statesmen, Edinburgh, 1754, pp. XX-XXII and 186-188.
  • George Burnett, Lord Lyon King of Arms (Ed.), The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Volume II, pp. 1359-1379, Edinburgh, 1878; A list of the Chamberlains of Scotland is attached to the preface. See also p. CXXIII.
  • James Balfour Paul, A History of the House of Douglas, Volume II, London 1902, p. 3,

Remarks

  1. ↑ Typically buying up goods before they hit the market and then selling them yourself at a higher price. The "forestell" mentioned in the Domesday Book was one of three reasons that allowed King Edward the Confessor to seize property.