The practice of the Exchequer court, with its severall offices and officers: being a short narration of the power and duty of each single person in his severall place. Written at the request of the Lord Buckhurst, sometime Lord Treasurer of England. By Sr. T.F. Whereunto are added the rules and orders of proceedings by English bill.
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- The practice of the Exchequer court, with its severall offices and officers: being a short narration of the power and duty of each single person in his severall place. Written at the request of the Lord Buckhurst, sometime Lord Treasurer of England. By Sr. T.F. Whereunto are added the rules and orders of proceedings by English bill.
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- Osborne, Peter, 1521-1592.
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- London :: Printed by T.R. for Tim Twyford and W. Place, and are to be sold at their shops within the Inner Temple gate, and at Grays Inne gate in Holborne,
- 1658.
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- England and Wales. -- Exchequer -- Early works to 1800.
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"The practice of the Exchequer court, with its severall offices and officers: being a short narration of the power and duty of each single person in his severall place. Written at the request of the Lord Buckhurst, sometime Lord Treasurer of England. By Sr. T.F. Whereunto are added the rules and orders of proceedings by English bill." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A90208.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2025.
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To the Reader,
I Have neglected ordinary flat∣teries, least I might seem to beg an applause, not merit it. Let it not seem a work of supererroga∣tion to publish this Tract since tis hoped the Work it self is bonum & utile, else had not that great and wise Lord Buckhurst taken such care to command it to writing, had he not known that bonum quo com∣munius eo melius; And therefore I hope my self very worthy of ex∣cuse from blame by any, inasmuch as hereby present generations may learn past Polity, and by the Rule thereof square their actions. And
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if any thing herein fall short of expectation, tis my request, That you will rather look at it as an e∣scape then a crime; since the whole ayme is both thy pleasure and profit, which if you attaine, I have the accomplishment of my hope; otherwise,
—Si quid noristi rectiusistis, Candidus imperti, si non his uters mecum.
Farewell.