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UNDER-CHAMBERLAINS OF THE EXCHEQUER Definition & Legal Meaning

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Two officers who cleaved the tallies written by the clerk of the tallies, and read the same, that the clerk of the pell and comptrollers thereof might see their entries were true. They also made searches for records in the treasury, and had the custody of Domesday Book. Cowell. The office is now abolished.

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