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The '''Remembrancer''' was originally a subordinate officer of the English [[Exchequer]]. The office is of great antiquity, the holder having been termed remembrancer, memorator, rememorator, registrar, keeper of the register, despatcher of business.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Remembrancer |volume=23 |page=81}}</ref> The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.

There were at one time three clerks of the remembrance, the '''[[King's Remembrancer]]''', '''Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer'''  and '''Remembrancer of First-Fruits and Tenths''' (see [[Court of First Fruits and Tenths]]). In England, the latter two offices have become extinct, the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer being merged in the office of King's Remembrancer in 1833, and the remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund ([[Queen Anne's Bounty]] Act 1838). By the Queen's Remembrancer Act 1859 that office ceased to exist separately, and the monarch's remembrancer was required to be a master of the court of exchequer. The [[Judicature Act 1873]] attached the office to the [[Courts of England and Wales#The Senior Courts of England and Wales|Supreme Court of Judicature]] (today called the Senior Courts), and the [[Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879]] transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court. By section 8 of that Act, the monarch's remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, usually filled by the senior master. The monarch's remembrancer department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married women acknowledgements department. The monarch's remembrancer still assists at ceremonial functions, relics of the former importance of the office, such as the nomination of sheriffs, the swearing-in of the [[Lord Mayor of the City of London]], the [[Trial of the Pyx]] and the acknowledgements of homage for crown lands.<ref name=EB1911/>

==City Remembrancer==
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There is the [[City Remembrancer]], one of the [[City of London Corporation]]'s<ref name=EB1911/> law officers, its [[parliamentary agent]], and its head of ceremony and protocol.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shaxson|first=Nicholas|title=Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens|year=2011|publisher=Palgrave MacMillan|isbn=9780230341722|pages=257}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Council_and_democracy/Council_departments/City_Remembrancers_Office/ |title=City Remembrancers Office — Archived copy |accessdate=2011-08-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026053409/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Council_and_democracy/Council_departments/City_Remembrancers_Office/ |archivedate=2011-10-26 }}</ref>

==Scotland==
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In Scotland, the office of [[King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer]] is filled by the Crown Agent, the head of the [[Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service]], and represents the Crown's interests in [[bona vacantia]], [[ultimus haeres]] and [[treasure trove]].

==Ireland==
The [[Exchequer of Ireland]] was also staffed by a number of Remembrancers, headed by the Chief Remembrancer, sometimes known as the Treasury Remembrancer. There are references to a Remembrancer 
in the early fourteenth century, and the office of Chief Remembrancer existed by 1348, when it was held by [[Robert de Holywood]], later Chief Baron of the [[Court of Exchequer (Ireland)]]. The office of Chief Remembrancer lapsed in 1920, on the retirement of Maurice Headlam, and ceased to exist under the [[Irish Free State]].<ref>"An Irishman's Diary" ''[[Irish Times]]'' 12/09/2000</ref>

== See also ==
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==References==
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[[Category:Exchequer offices]]
[[Category:Judiciary of England and Wales]]
[[Category:Political office-holders in England]]