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Excerpt from Lists of the Records of the Treasury, the Paymaster General's Office, the Exchequer and Audit Department and the Board of Trade, to 1837, Preserved in the Public Record Office The earlier history and working of the Treasury is described in the introduction to the Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1729 1730. The Lord Treasurer was originally the head of the Exchequer; and the Treasury establishment, a department quite dis tinct from the Treasury of Receipt, was his personal staff. The practice of issuing his instructions in writing can be traced back to the beginning of the reign of Edward VI by the documents known as Treasury Orders and Warrants, preserved in the Exchequer; but it was not until the office of Lord Treasurer was placed in commission that it became absolutely necessary to keep registers of these instructions and of other business done, so that the several commissioners might be readily informed of the actions of their colleagues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.