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THE CLIFFORDS. 253
" inconvenience of the removal of the Court from place to place, whither-
" soever the King went, occasioned it
being permanently
established in
" Westminster by the great Charter of 2 Henry III., instead of following
"the movements of the Court. As regards the 'Lower Exchequer,' the
" King's treasury was anciently at Winchester, where William Rufus
"found his father's heaps of gold
and silver."
The reparation of the treasury house, in the time of Henry III., is
and thither the treasure was carried from London by the
also -mentioned,
sheriffs in the same reign. There were, besides, some subordinate receipts
or places of revenue, called also Exchequers one was at Worcester, others
;
at Nottingham, Shrewsbury, and York.
Near Aylesbury
is situated, in one of the most lovely spots amidst the
Chiltern Hills, a beautiful old English mansion, called "Chequers," which,
the same Lysons says, was originally the residence of John de Saccariis-
King John had a palace in the immediate vicinity, and this
may have
been the abode of one of the officers of the Upper Exchequer, or " Aula
" "
Regia
; or, perhaps, one of the treasuries of the Lower Exchequer, of
which the said John had the charge.
There are several families which carry a shield, the field of which is
chequy, in different colours, and many
which have the field of one "tincture"
only, but the "ordinaries" thereon (i.e. chevron, bend, fesse,) chequy; e.g.
the
Royal House of Stuart, Or, a fesse chequy argent and azure. Only
Warren and Clifford, however, are clearly represented in the Minster.
There is in the south-west window of the Chapter House a shield, much
defaced, which may be chequy Or and gules, in which case it would
represent the arms of Hubert Vaux, created Baron of Gillesland by William
the Conqueror. His granddaughter, Maud, temp, of Henry III., married
Thomas de Multon, whose great-granddaughter, Margaret, married Ranulph,
summoned to Parliament as Baron Dacre, 1321. His arms, three escallop
shells, are in the south transept of the choir; and his descendant was
the Lancastrian general whose death by a " bird-bolt " shot at a venture
by a boy from a tree, contributed to the disastrous defeat of that party
at the battle of Towton.
Or, it is possible that this shield may
have had a chief ermine in
addition, in which case it would be the arms of Tateshall. In the reign
of Henry III., Sir Robert de Tateshall, by his marriage to Joan, daughter
and co-heir of Robert Fitzranulph, Lord of Middleham, became possessed
of the manor of Well and Snape with Crakehall and Bedale, in the
North-Riding of Yorkshire. He died in 1297, and was succeeded by his
son, Robert de Tateshall, who was summoned to Parliament 1299-1302,
and died 1303. He served King Edward I. in the expedition to Gascony
and in the wars of Scotland. He was present at the siege of Caerlaverock,
and was a party to the Barons' letter to the Pontiff, 1301.
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