Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer

The Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer was an office in the English Exchequer.

The Tellers of the Exchequer received any money to be paid into the Exchequer, noted the amount in a book, and sent a copy of the entry, called a Teller's Bill, to the Tally Court so that a tally could be made of it. At the end of each day, the money they had received, as determined by the Bills, was removed from their chests to be deposited in the Treasury. During the reign of Richard I, these officials numbered ten, but by the time of Henry III, they had been reduced to four, which number remained constant until the abolition of the office. With several other offices of the ancient Exchequer, that of Teller of the Receipt was done away with on 10 October 1834; the office's responsibilities were given to the new Comptroller General of the Exchequer.

Tellers of the Exchequer (1660–1834)

Date	One	Two	Three	Four
1660	Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet	Leonard Pinckney	John Loving	Lawrence Squibb
1661		William Pinckney
1673		Sir William D'Oyly, 2nd Baronet
1674				Thomas Vernon
1677		vacant; D'Oyly suspended
1678		(two deputies)
1680		Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet
1684	Simon Clifford
1685				Francis Villiers
January 1689	Thomas Howard
April 1689		Henry Maynard
1693			Henry Carew
February 1694				John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge
October 1694		Guy Palmes
1699			Francis Godolphin
1701	Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet
29 June 1702	James Vernon
30 June 1702		Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet
May 1704			Thomas Coke
September 1704		Francis Robartes
1706			Peregrine Bertie
13 October 1710	John Smith
31 October 1710		Russell Robartes
1711			George Hay, Viscount Dupplin
July 1712	Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel
December 1712				vacant
1713				Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh
6 November 1714	John Smith	John West, 6th Baron De La Warr
January 1715			Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet
7 November 1715		Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow		Lord William Powlett
1716			Richard Hampden
21 March 1718		Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington	Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow
1719		George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
October 1723	vacant
1724	George Treby
1727	Thomas Townshend
1729				Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet
1738				Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
1741			Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole
1757			James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
April 1763			Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington
May 1763		George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
1766	John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
1786			Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
1790				Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
1806			Hon. William Eden
1810			Charles Philip Yorke
1813		Spencer Perceval
April 1834			Charles William Manningham

References

• Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894)