Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
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Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Chancery, Manchester District Registry: Reports...
Catalogue reference: PL 41
What's it about?
PL 41
This series contains reports and certificates produced by the Manchester District Registry from August 1855 to December 1968. The Registrars' certificates relate to taxation, trusteeships, receivers' accounts and funds administered by the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PL 41
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Title (The name of the record)
- Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Chancery, Manchester District Registry: Reports and Certificates
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1855-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains reports and certificates produced by the Manchester District Registry from August 1855 to December 1968. The Registrars' certificates relate to taxation, trusteeships, receivers' accounts and funds administered by the Chancery Court for the most part. The reports were made in consequence of court orders in certain specified cases, the District Registrar being directed to make an inquiry, on which he reported and in some cases certified. There are many more certificates than reports.
The certificates are anonymously certified by the District Registrar, using his title only. Many of them are taxation certificates, that is statements of the tax to be taken in proportion to the plaintiff's costs in court cases: they are 19th century descendants of the earlier taxed bill of costs. The date and parties involved in the case are stated, and any relevant order made by the court is cited, providing a cross-reference to the entry books if necessary, and then to the case files.
Other kinds of certificates concern certificates of apportionment, sharing out a residual estate; of approval of leases, when the court was trustee for freehold; of partition of realty; of good title; of interest due on a principal sum of money; of funds belonging to a plaintiff being held in Chancery; of approval of conveyance of property; of appointment of new trustees; of a list of, or of the non-appearance of, creditors; of cause 'correcter' stated; of passing receivers' accounts, and so on.
The reports are much less easy to generalise. They usually relate to a specific inquiry placed in the hands of the District Registrar by order of the court. For example, a report of 1 Feb 1870 concerns the case of Collier v Read, which prompted a court order on 27 Nov 1869. Other reports follow a similar pattern their titles identifying them with other cases, no doubt problematic ones. A report may go so far as to certify the object of the inquiry, if appropriate.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Lancashire Chancery Court, Manchester District Registry, 1875-1971
- Palatinate of Lancaster, Chancery Court, Manchester District Registry, 1857-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 131 bundles and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Taxation
- Debt
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- This series was transferred to the Public Record Office in two installments. The first was in 1976, when the chronological range was 1855 to 1923 (PL 41/1-89), and the second in 1994-1995, ranging from 1870 to 1968 (PL 41/90-131). PL 41/90 reverts from its immediate predecessor's date of December 1923 to January 1870, and continues to December 1878 before leaping back to January 1924. There had been a gap in the first deposit for 1865-1879, which is thus to some extent filled.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11646/
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