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)
DateOneTwoThreeFour1660 Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet Leonard Pinckney John Loving Lawrence Squibb1661 William Pinckney1673 Sir William D'Oyly, 2nd Baronet1674 Thomas Vernon1677 vacant; D'Oyly suspended1678 (two deputies)1680 Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet1684 Simon Clifford1685 Francis VilliersJanuary 1689 Thomas Howard April 1689 Henry Maynard1693 Henry CarewFebruary 1694 John Berkeley, 4th Viscount FitzhardingeOctober 1694 Guy Palmes1699 Francis Godolphin1701 Sir John Stanley, 1st BaronetOfficiating in the place of Viscount Villiers, who was underage.29 June 1702 James Vernon30 June 1702 Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th BaronetMay 1704 Thomas CokeSeptember 1704 Francis Robartes1706 Peregrine Bertie13 October 1710 John Smith31 October 1710 Russell Robartes1711 George Hay, Viscount DupplinJuly 1712 Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron ManselDecember 1712 vacant1713 Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh6 November 1714 John Smith John West, 6th Baron De La WarrJanuary 1715 Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet7 November 1715 Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow Lord William Powlett1716 Richard Hampden21 March 1718 Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow1719 George Parker, 2nd Earl of MacclesfieldOctober 1723 vacant1724 George Treby1727 Thomas Townshend1729 Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet1738 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke1741 Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole1757 James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl WaldegraveApril 1763 Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of NorthingtonMay 1763 George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham1766 John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden1786 Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow1790 Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst1806 Hon. William Eden1810 Charles Philip Yorke1813 Spencer PercevalApril 1834 Charles William Manningham
References
Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894)