(UNDER-1 6 a.)
Chiefly as the designation of the officer immediately subordinate to the Lord High Treasurer of England (TREASURER 1 b): see also CHANCELLOR 3.
1447. Shillingford Lett. (Camden), 7. There was myche peeple, lordes and other, my Lord Tresorer, under Tresorer,… and many strangers.
1521. Wolsey, in St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 74. Sir Thomas More, your Undre Treasourer.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 283. William Essex, Vnder-treasurer of England under King Edward the Fourth.
1642. C. Vernon, Consid. Exch., 33. The Vnder-Treasurer or Vice-Treasurer [of the Exchequer] was not knowne till the time of King Hen. 7.
1710. in Lond. Gaz., No. 4668/3. They shall receive an Order, signed by the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer.
1764. Goldsm., Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1782), IV. 109. Harley … was appointed chancellor of the exchequer, and under-treasurer.
1823. Gentl. Mag., Feb., 176/1. Chancellor and Under Treasurer of his Majesty’s Exchequer.
1863. H. Cox, Instit., III. vii. 696. He now holds … the office of Under-Treasurer.
So Under-treasuress. rare.
c. 1450. [see UNDER-CHAMBRESS].
