Chancellor of the Exchequer his duty to distribute as fairly as he can." The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status within his party and his relationship with the prime minister. Gordon Brown, who became chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party. Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in the same position throughout his ten years as prime minister; making Brown an unusually
Exchequer of the Jews can only present the Christian viewpoint. The Jewish Historical Society of England has subsequently undertaken publication of a full calendar (English-language summary) of the rolls, so far to 1281: The Selden Society has also produced a volume of contemporary case-summaries in their series "The Earliest English Law Reports", Exchequer of the Jews The Exchequer of the Jews (Latin: "Scaccarium Judaeorum") was a division of the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, which recorded and regulated the taxes and the law-cases of the Jews in England. It operated from the late 1190s until the eventual expulsion of the Jews in 1290. Jews