chequer; and, after declaration, the 
part on parchment pafies through 
the three feveral offices of the king’s 
_remembrancer, the lord treafurer’s 
remembrancer, and the pipe. We 
endeavoured to learn, from the of- 
ficers employed in thefe departments, 
to what purpofe thefe accounts were 
. pafled through fo many offices. 
Adam Martin, ef. the firit clerk 
in the office of the king’s remem- 
brancer; and John Perrott, efq. 
firft fecondary in the office of the 
lord treafurer’s remembrancer ; and 
Mr. Peter Sykes, deputy to the firft 
fecondary in the pipe-office, inform 
us, that a flate or abftract of every 
public account, after it is pafled, is 
| up in the official form of the ex. 
vo 
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— 
two firft the infupers are inralled 
verbatim; butin the lait, the grofs 
fum only, fet infuper, is entered 
upon the roll without the names, 
unlefs where there are but few of 
them. . This inrollment is the re- 
cord of the a¢count in each office; 
and, in the office of the king’s re- 
membrancer, warrants the procefs 
that iffues againft the accountant, 
whether it be the ordinary proce(s 
of diftringas ad computandum, or the 
fpecial procefs of capias ad computan- 
lum, or any proceis for recovering 
a debt due to the crown. No ge- 
neral procefs can iffue from this of- 
fice; unlefs founded on matter of re- 
‘cord in the office: but, in the two 
Other offices, the inrollment feers 
to be of no ufe; no procets iffues 
from either of them, in confequence 
, or grounded on that record. The 
Tong writ, which is the procefs that 
ifiues out of the office of the lord 
treafurer’s remembrancer, is ground- 
ed “pon the nichil record tranfmit- 
fd to then: from the pipe-cffice. 
Vou. XXXxXil. 
ni. Sew ae. Ts BOP ACPI RSs. 
inrolled in thefe offices, and in the 
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On the roll of foreign accounts 
in the pipe-office, which contains 
the abftraéts of all the public ac- 
counts, no procefs: whatever iffues, 
The words, either “ guietus ef,” or 
“be is quit,’ are written at the 
bottom of every abftraét upon the 
roll, and a copy is delivered to the 
accountant, which is his-quietus. 
Public accounts, or abftracts cf 
them, ought to be inrolled, and the. 
records of them preferved in fome 
office or other: but enrojling them 
in. three different branches of an 
office, feems to be more than is ne- 
ceflary. In that of the king’s re- 
membrancer it is neceflary, as the 
ground for the procefs; and that 
inroilment anfwers all the purpofes 
ofa record; it may be confulted 
for information, or it may be pro- 
duced, if wanted, in evidence: the 
other two feem utterly ufelefs, and 
may, therefore, be difpenfed with, 
and the fees faved to the public. 
The fees paid to the pipe for the 
uietus upon Mr. Grenville’s ac- 
count for the year’ 1759, were 
eighty-one pounds ten {hillings. 
The account itfelf being lodged in 
this office, a very fhort abftraét, 
with the quietus fubfcribed, may be 
delivered ‘to the accountant as his 
final difcharge. 
' An account in the exchequer 
form is in Engtith, but contains 
fome Latin terms. ‘The impreft 
roll is all written in an abridgement 
of the Latin language. The fums 
in both are exprefled in characters 
that are, in general, corruptions of 
the old text, and are in ufe no 
where, that we can ,find, but in the 
exchequer; charaéters very hable 
to miftakes, inconvenient and trou- 
blefome even to the officers them- 
felyes: the fuims fo exprefled can- 
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