Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer is the first baron of the Exchequer. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was he who presided in the equity court and answered the bar i.e. spoke for the court." Pratically speaking the most important office of the court of the Exchequer. The Exchequer was that part of the government responsible for the management and collection of the royal revenues of the King of England. ... The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, usually but not always the Prime Minister. ... The Rt. ... The Exchequer of Pleas or Exchequer was one of the three common-law courts of Medieval and Early Modern England. ...

The chief baron along with the three puinse barons, sat as a court of common law, heard suits in the court of equity, and settled revenue disputes. This article concerns the common-law legal system, as contrasted with the civil law legal system; for other meanings of the term, within the field of law, see common law (disambiguation). ...

From 1550-1579, there was a major distinction between the cheif baron and the second, third and fourth puinse barons. The difference was in social status and education. All of the chief barons had been trained as lawyers in the inns of court. With the exception of Henry Bradshaw and Sir Clemant Higham, both barristers-at-law , all of the chief barons who served Queen Elizabeth I, had attained the highest and most prestigeious rank of a lawyer, serjeant-at-law. The Inns of Court, in London, are where barristers train and practise. ... A barrister (advocate in Scotland and the Channel Islands, barrister-at-law in Ireland and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in some Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. ... Elizabeth I Queen of England and Ireland Queen of France, nominal title Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533–March 24, 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death. ... Serjeant-at-law is an obsolete order of barristers at the English or Irish bar. ...

Chief Barons of the Exchequer 1552-1676

• 1552 Henry Bradshaw Esq
• 1553 David Brooke
• 1558 Sir Clement Higham
• 1559 Sir Edward Saunders
• 1577 Sir Robert Bell
• 1577 Sir John Jeffery
• 1578 Sir Roger Manwood
• 1593 Sir William Peryam
• 1604 Sir Thomas Fleming
• 1607 Sir Lawrence Tanfield
• 1625 Sir John Walter
• 1631 Sir Humphrey Davenport
• 1645 Sir Richard Lane
• 1648 John Wilde
• 1655 William Steele
• 1658 Sir Thomas Widdrington
• 1660 John Wilde
• 1660 Sir Orlando Bridgeman
• 1660 Sir Matthew Hale
• 1671 Sir Edward Turnor
• 1676 Sir William Montagu

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Sources

Bryson, W., The equity side of the Exchequer; Its jurisdiction, administration, procedures, and records; York prize essay for 1973.