Crown & government · also Bank, finance & insurance
Treasury
Also called the Crown's higher treasury · Treasury men · treasury corridors
The Crown's higher treasury machinery, controlling Treasury assent, borrowing, extraordinary war expenditure, subsidies to strategic works and the management of Crown credit. It has an institutional life older and more stubborn than any one ministry.
The Crown's treasury, whose men and corridors handle the realm's money in London.
Named with it
Ties
- headed by the Lord Treasurer, one of the Great Officers
- part of the Ministry
- office of the Crown
At the table
Vane is famous for letting a proposal be praised for half an hour before asking who will pay the second year. House Crowhurst frequently sides with Treasury restraint. When Treasury men harden, the whole city feels a higher order has entered the room.