Queen's Remembrancer

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MP Thomas Fanshawe (1533-1601), was from 1568 the Queen's remembrancer of the exchequer, inherited the office from his uncle Henry Fanshawe, who was his protector. The office was held five times in a row by members of the family.

The Queen's Remembrancer (or King's Remembrancer ) is a traditional office of administration of justice in the legal system of England and Wales. Since the Lord Chancellor no longer has a judicial function, the Remembrancer is the oldest legal office with continued existence. The office was created in 1154 by Henry II as the head of the Court of Exchequer . His duties included reviewing the decisions of the Lord Treasurer and the Barons of Court and instructing them (to put in remembrance) to document the Crown's debtors, mainly to register the due date and payment of taxes.

The first King's Remembrancer was Richard of Ilchester , a servant of the Crown and later Bishop of Winchester. The official seat of the King's Remembrancer was the Court of Exchequer until its abolition in 1882.

The office of Queen's Remembrancer is held today by the Head of the Queen's Bench Division at the High Court of Justice .

Quit Rents Ceremony

The oldest mention of it was in 1211. Since then, the city has paid leases for two properties. For The Moors property near Bridgnorth in Shropshire there is a blunt knife and a sharp knife. It is now a hand ax and a knotter .

Of 1235 is an entry in the Great Roll of the Exchequer for The Forge (The Forge) in the tweezer's Alley , south of St Clement's Dane near the beach in London. For this, six horseshoes and 61 horseshoe nails have to be paid for. This has been given to the Queen's Remembrancer for over 550 years , kept in his office, and then, with the permission of the Crown, re- lent to the Corporation of London for return next year.

The city's inspectors, comptrollers and solicitors (both lawyers) present the horseshoes and nails and count them to the remembrancer . He replies: "Good number." The knives are tested by the Queen's Remembrancer by taking a hazel stick , a cubit ( Old Weights and Measures in England ) long, and making a mark with the blunt knife. This practice is derived from Kerbholz , where every payment was noted with a blunt knife. Then the stick is divided in length with the sharp knife and each party receives half as a "slip". After the successful test, the remembrancer says : "Good service".

It is no longer known where the properties are, but traditionally the ceremony continues.

Further tasks

The Queen's Remembrancer normalizes the high sheriffs in every county of England and Wales except Cornwall , Greater Manchester , Lancashire and Merseyside , who are appointed by the King in their capacity as Duke of Lancaster in the so-called pricking ceremony .

The Lord Mayor of London is appointed by the Remembrancer to the Lord Chief Justice , Master of the Rolls and other Supreme Court justices of the Royal Courts of Justice on Lord Mayor's Day .

The Queen's Remembrancer presents the newly appointed sheriff town with a writ of approbation from the monarch . The letter is provided with the Great Silver Seal of the Exchequer and takes place at the same time as the Quit Rents .

List of title owners

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Queen's Remembrancer and High Sheriffs. ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b Sarah Laskow: London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211 . Atlas Obscura. 17th October 2016.
  3. ^ ODNB
  4. ^ R. Sewell and E. Lane, The Free Men of Charlwood (Crawley, Sussex: Reprographic Center, 1979, pp. 51-73.)
  5. ^ "Obituary", The Times [London, England] October 19, 1983: p. 14. The Times Digital Archive; accessed July 9, 2013.
  6. ^ Letter from the Chief Clerk to the Queen's Remembrancer dated January 23, 2014
  7. ^ Senior Master Steven Whitaker , Judicial Conduct Investigations Office . March 14, 2014. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / judicialconduct.judiciary.gov.uk 
  8. ^ John Hyde: 'Serious misconduct' finding against senior judge . In: The Law Society Gazette , March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014. 
  9. ^ Joanne Harris: E-discovery guru Whitaker resigns from judicial post after diary investigation . In: The Lawyer , March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.