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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Chancellors of the Exchequer, Chief Barons of the Exchequer, Exchequer of pleas, Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, Matthew Hale, Robert Bell, Priestly v Fowler, Robert Atkyns, Thomas Fleming, Exchequer of the Jews, John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, Queen's Remembrancer, Vicary Gibbs, Richard Richards, John Wilde, Auditor of the imprests, Fitzroy Kelly, Exchequer of Ireland, James Montagu, Keech v Sandford, Thomas Pengelly, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever, Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Thomas Widdrington, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Neilson v Harford, Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer, William Peryam, Richard Broke, Robert Eyre, Winterbottom v Wright, Edward Saunders, Sir Archibald Macdonald, 1st Baronet, John Juyn, John Stonor, John Comyns, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, Clement Higham, James Eyre, Roger Manwood, Edward Turnour, Chandelor v Lopus, John Walter, William Steele, Exchequer of Chester, Franklin v South Eastern Railway. Excerpt: Sir Matthew Hale SL (1 November 1609 - 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronae, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict Puritan, and inherited his faith. In 1626 he matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, (now Hertford College) intending to become a priest, but after a series of distractions was persuaded to become a barrister like his father thanks to an encounter with a Serjeant-at-Law in a dispute over his estate. On 8 November 1628 he joined Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the Bar on 17 May 1636. As a barrister, Hale represented a variety of Royalist figures during the prelude and duration ..
