RepositoryCheshire Record Office
LevelSeries
TitleTreasurer's accounts
Date1542-1843
DescriptionAccounts of payments: they are divided into ordinary disbursements, including payments to prebendaries, minor canons, school master, choristers and scholars at the King's School, and other office holders; and extraordinary disbursements including payments to tradesmen and suppliers for building and other materials, ringing of bells on special occasions etc. They were audited every autumn

Income is recorded in the Receivers' accounts
Extent23 volumes, 3 items, 1 bundle
Administrative HistoryThe Treasurer was originally one of two officers responsible for the financial affairs of the Dean and Chapter. He was responsble for expenditure, while the Receiver was responsible for the income, arising mainly from the Dean and Chapter estates
Related MaterialTreasurer's accounts 1 Oct 1623-30 Sep 1624 are at Library of St George's Chapel, Windsor. (see James Tait, ed. The Chartulary or Register of the Abbey of St Werbergh, Chester , part 1 Chetham Soc. NS 79, 1920, p. xv111.)
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