Exchequer

The Crown's treasury, which has costed replacing the line garrison with Crown troops and costed governing the county, each time deciding against.

The Crown office that accounts for the realm's standing forces; the permanent Crown troops are the part of the army it can count honestly. The Crown's financial office, whose records of the realm's substance are the only ones better than the Reckoning's.

Named with it

• Master Wulfstan of the Exchequer · historical author, c. 4331 A.C.

Ties

• counts the Crown Army's standing core
• office of the Crown
• pays the standing charge for the unnamed body the Crown keeps
• part of the Crown

At the table

Mentioned once, in connection with the cost of the armed establishment. Carries one unnamed standing charge, unaltered for a hundred and forty years and audited by nobody who will say what it is for.