The firstwasthe CourtofExchequer, which emergedfromthetaxdepartmentoftheCuria as the arena forthe settlement of revenue disputesalthoughthisjurisdictionwas widenedbyvariousmethods.
It was the charismatic, even sacral powers ofthe king, and not bureaucracy, that underpinned regality in the reign of Henry VIII, and such powers were concentrated in the Privy Chamber, the innermost sanctum ofthecourt, and not in institutions such as theexchequer, the courts of law, or even Parliament.