Obs.
1. The chamber devoted to the business of the royal exchequer; transf. treasury-room.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 342. The Kyng … yode into the Chekyr Chaumbre, and there satte hym downe.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 449. A place where their Checker-chamber was for the safe keeping of the Roman treasure.
2. A court of appellate jurisdiction deciding cases of doubtful law; = EXCHEQUER-CHAMBER; the chamber in which this court sat.
1528. More, Heresyes, III. Wks. 216/1. We might … make it a cheker chamber case.
1643. Herle, Answ. Ferne, 46. The major part of the Judges in the Chequer-chamber.
a. 1714. Burnet, Own Time, II. 66. That judge was one of those who delivered their judgment in the chequer-chamber against the ship-money.
