Catalogue description Exchequer: Exchequer of Receipt: Pair of Doors

A pair of wooden doors with a painted inscription, which once enclosed a cupboard in the Exchequer of Receipt in which were kept the receipt and issue rolls and other procedural documents. The doors measure approximately seven feet by two feet each and have hinges of iron and an iron lock.

The inscription reads, 'Annis regnorum Philippi et Marie 2 & 3, this place and the rest of the office were stablyshed by the righte honorable W. Marques of Wynchester and Highe Treasurer of England, for keepynge of all Pelles of Receipts and Exitus of the Court of Receipts called inferius scacarrium, and of all warrants and wrytynges belongyng to the same and accordynge to the aincyent ordre thereof. And also of certayne orders and rules of late yeres neglected and now agayne renewed from henesforthe to be observed of all and every officer of the said courte contayned in the redde booke of this said office made for the same intent. Edmonde Cockerell gent then the said Lord Treasourers clerk wryter and keeper of the Pells, warrants and writynges aforsaid. Anno Domini 1555'.