Note 183 — II THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD

3 Hen. VIII, c. 23 (Statutes, iii. 45). It is provided by § 6 'that the Kinges forenamed trusty servant John Heron be from hensfurth Tresourer of the Kinges Chamber, and that he by the name of Tresourer of the Kinges Chambre be named accepted and called; and that he and every other persone whom the King hereaftur shall name and appoint to the said roome or office of Tresourer of his Chamber be not Charged ne chargeable for any suche his or their Receipt of any parte or parcell of the premisses as before ys expressed or therefor to accompte answere or make repayment to any persone or persones other then to the King or his heires in his or their Chamber, and not in the said Eschequier'. The Act only had force to 30 Nov. 1512, but it was continued by 4 Hen. VIII, c. 18, 6 Hen. VIII, c. 24, 7 Hen. VIII, c. 7, 14-15 Hen. VIII, c. 15, and made permanent by 27 Hen. VIII, c. 62 in 1535 (Statutes, iii. 68, 145, 182, 219, 631). The account of this legislation in Newton, 361, treats the Act of 6 Hen. VIII as its starting-point.