Catalogue description Auditors of the Imprest and Successors: Registers of Accounts Received

Registers of accounts received by the Auditors of the Imprest, the Commissioners of Audit and the Exchequer and Audit Department.

Until 1834 the accounts were divided into ordinary and extraordinary. From 1845 onwards there is a general register except for one volume (Vol. 16) which contains consular accounts only. The register shows the various stages of each account in the Audit Office with the amount of the charge and of the balance, together with other particulars.

Auditors of the Imprest, 1560-1785

Commissioners of Audit, 1785-1866

Exchequer and Audit Department, 1867-1984