Sentence examples for exchequer found from inspiring English sources

The demands for ship money aroused obstinate and widespread resistance by 1638, even though a majority of the judges of the court of Exchequer found in a test case that the levy was legal.

By the end of parliament, economic growth had been restored and the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer found himself able to reverse some of the previous cuts and tax rises he had made.

That threshold was reduced from £18 to £15 in November after the UK Exchequer found it had meant £130m of tax had not been collected in 2010, which it estimated was higher than the cost of collection.

"Embrace insecurity," after all, sounds like exactly the sort of message that the chancellor of the exchequer might find cynically helpful to inculcate in a society facing ever more precarious circumstances.

In power, the chancellor of the exchequer has often found it a handy way to get bad news out of the way before the spring budget.

The government ruled that the pools were taxable; the pools appealed to the Exchequer Court, which found in the government's favour in 1943.

The Tories say this is contradicted by an official Treasury analysis that found such restrictions would "be difficult to frame, generate market uncertainty on London's Eurobond market, and could be structured around, so providing negligible Exchequer yield".

On Nov. 7th, Richard Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his speech giving the House an account of what he had found in the Treasury and setting forth his first idea on what was to be done, conspicuously refrained from throwing the blame for the yawning emptiness of the cupboard upon the late housekeepers.

She found the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, high-handed in his pre-emption of the Committee's choice for the new regional designs of the reverse of the one-pound coin (the Committee wanted birds on the coin).

McManus and Bartram searched the archives of the Exchequer and of Parliament in the British Library but found no record of a million pounds sterling being aboard the Sussex.

But the king also found another means of filling his exchequer that had nothing to do with traditional methods: he began to sell offices on a large scale.