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In 1415 the Commons believed that John of Waltham, who died in 1395, had invented the writ sub poena in the reign of Richard II (1377-1399), and complained of its use in the Exchequer as well as in the Chancery.⁶ This seems to be the first reference, faint and doubtful as it is, to a court of equity in the Exchequer in the modern sense. Its history is by far the most obscure of all the English jurisdictions, and all that seems known of it is that it acted as a court of equity, duplicating to some extent the Chancery during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,¹ and indeed down to 1842 when its jurisdiction was transferred to the Chancery.