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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EXCHEQUER FUNDS
32. [EXCHEQUER.] [Sheet of six teller’s bills drawn up by Sir William D’Oyly in his capacity
as Teller of the Exchequer.]
[Easter term, 1670.] Manuscript, ink on
vellum. Six separate teller’s bills stitched
together (sheet approx. 26 x 42cm) each
signed off by William D’Oyly, small
stab-hole in each bill, old fold at centre
of sheet, very good.
The Tellers of the Exchequer, in the
seventeenth century four in number,
received money to be paid into
the Exchequer. Noting the amounts
in a record book, they made a separate
receipt of each entry on a strip
of parchment known as a teller’s
bill. These were thrown down a
pipe into the Tally Court where a
clerk would record the text of the
bill on a tally before delivery to the
Clerk of the Pells. The six teller’s bills offered here, at some point stitched together, were drawn up by
teller Sir William D’Oyly 2 nd Bt. (c.1637-1680) and each has been signed off by him. They relate to informations
against smugglers of brandy and French wine in Kent, seizures of wine in Norfolk, and rents from
Crown lands in Norfolk and Suffolk. In 1840 questions were asked in the House of Lords concerning the
large amount of exchequer records that were being released or destroyed and it seems likely that these bills
were amongst documents then dispersed.
£450
PSALTER EDITED BY BENEDICTINE ORIENTALIST
33. [GENEBRARD, Gilbert, ed. ] Psalterium Davidis Græcolatinum cui ad fidem vulgatæ et
multorum exemplarium restituto, calendarium Hebræum, Syrum, Græcum, et Latinum,
cum Genebrardi argumentis accessit.
Parisiis, Apud Olivarium de Varennes. 1607. Second edition. 16mo (8 x 12.5cm) [84], 468, [12]pp., engraved titlepage
and 1 full page engraving, text printed in black and red throughout, printed in two columns in Greek and Latin,
very good in original blind-ruled sheep.
This pocket psalter printed in Greek
and Latin was edited by the
Benedictine orientalist Gilbert
Genebrard (1535-1597). The initial
section provides details of the
Hebrew, Syrian, and Greek religious
calendars. First printed in 1581, this
1607 edition was the second to be
issued by the Parisian printer Olivier
de Varennes. Both the title-page and
the full-page engraving of David playing
a harp were the work of the
accomplished engraver Leonard
Gaultier (1561-1641).
OCLC lists 2 copies of this edition
(Bibliotheque Nationale; Bibliotheque
Sainte-Genevieve).
£350