Therefore an object in the
royal treasury need not have been produced in the Fatimid domain.
Work began on the real castle in 1283 and it cost pounds 22,000 - the equivalent to a year's income for the
Royal Treasury.
Unfortunately, as a member of both the Council of Finance and the Council of Castile, Ramirez de Prado was in a strategic position to juggle accounts, accept bribes, and steal from the
royal treasury (Dennis 158-59).
(4) These were the taxes collected by the
Royal Treasury in towns and villages which were not granted exemption or where these taxes were non-transferable to individuals.
The setting for this historical fiction is during the reign of Henry VIII, when his government is systematically destroying monasteries throughout England and taking their land and possessions for the
royal treasury. The central character is 17-year-old Colin, escaping a violent home life to live at the monastery in Glastonbury, one of the holiest sites of British Christendom.
The Tower, a mighty for-tress built by William the Conqueror to over-awe his Anglo-Saxon subjects, has been used as a royal palace, a military garrison, a
royal treasury, an arsenal, the home of the Royal Mint, a government office building, a museum, a home of the Crown Jewels and a zoo.
The organization of the exchequer, coupled with the increased efficiency of the dispensation of justice, resulted in extremely effective collection of revenues for the
royal treasury. The fiscal strength of Henry's reign is noteworthy, in spite of the drains on the treasury caused by wars in Normandy and unusual expenses such as the huge dowry of his daughter Maud.
The money took the
royal treasury out of debt and the first English sea captain to circumnavigate the globe was knighted by a grateful Queen.
Were these distributed reasonably and deliberately, one could dispense with extraordinary gifts from the
royal treasury and other income.
This applied to representatives of different branches of the
royal treasury and of religious institutions such as monastic orders, the Society of Jesus, and convents and monasteries.