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Definition:treasury
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Pamfilo's man, Sirisco, I appoint treasurer and chancellor of our exchequer; and be he ever answerable to Parmeno.
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron, Volume I.
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He represented to the emperor “the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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An elderly female, no more young, left the building of the courts of chancery, king's bench, exchequer and common pleas, having heard in the lord chancellor's court the case in lunacy of Potterton,
James Joyce. Ulysses
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