This was a Court of Equity, inferior to Chancery, and presided over by the Lord Privy Seal. It seems to have begun in the reign of Henry VII; its jurisdiction was impugned by a decision of the Court of Common Pleas in Elizabeth's reign: and it was abolished by statute in the reign of Charles I. The room in which it was held was called the Camera Alba or Whitehall. Hence the present name of the Government buildings, and the room designated by Swift seems then to have retained the old name.