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c 246-255
Catalogue reference: C 65/6064
Date: 62 & 63 Vict
c 246-255
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MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL FILES
Catalogue reference: Sub-series within C 255
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- This section consists of a number of original files, or parts of original files, not allocated to any other class. File 1 seems to consist of roughly four separate sections. The first (File 1 nos. 1-46) consists of writs returned into Chancery or othermatter filed during the month after Easter, 1294; the second (File 1 nos. 50-65) of similar matter from November and early December, 1293; the third. (File 1 nos. 66-98) of similar matter from late January and early February 1294; and the fourth (File 1 nos. 99-120) of similar matter from a period close to Trinity Sunday, 1294, with some material also from the Easter period. The writs most commonly occurring on the file are levari facias and replevin: other types include de execucione facienda (File 1 nos. 5, 15, 110), cerciorari on debt (File 1 nos. 10-11) or the record and process of an outlawry (File 1 nos 59-61), de vi laica amovenda (File 1 no. 53), scire facias (File 1 nos. 65, 70) and a mandate for an inquisition ad quod damnum (File 1 no. 119). The file also includes various drafts and memoranda (File 1 nos. 7, 8, 20, 48, 71, 89, 99), a privy seal mandate (File 1 no. 86) and a petition to the king (File 1 no. 95). File 2 consists of only some 28 pieces in all, and must therefore have originally been part of a much larger file. It may indeed once have formed part of File 1. The writs and other matter contained in it seem to have been filed in late 1294 or early 1295. The only type of writ occurring in any number is replevin (File 2 nos. 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 22); there are also various cerciorari writs (File 2 nos. 1-2, 7, 8, 20-21, 25-26), together with writs de vi laica amovenda (File 2 no. 27), levari facias (File 2 no. 14), and others. The file also, like File 1, contains several drafts and memoranda (File 2 nos. 6, 13, 15, 16, 23) and a privy seal mandate. (File 2 no. 9) File 3 is a small section of an original file of the reign of Richard II, whose material is related mainly to the king's interests, feudal and prerogative, in land. Again the file includes not only writs but also drafts, memoranda and petitions. File 4 is a file of memoranda of bails or recognizances, arranged in date order, (Nos. 151-169 are of 1 Henry VII; Nos. 128-150 of 3 Henry VII; Nos. 102-127 of 4 Henry VII; Nos. 91-101 of 5 Henry VII; Nos. 83-90 of 6 Henry VII; Nos. 77-82 of 7 Henry VII; Nos. 55-76 of 8 Henry VII; Nos. 26-54 of 9 Henry VII; Nos. 2-25 of 10 Henry VII; No. 1 of 17 Henry VII.) and still with its original backstop. (The loss of the front stop was probably accompanied by losses from this end of the file, accounting for the gap in date between Nos. 1 and 2.) All have an annotation indicating that they have been enrolled. The most common types of condition in the bails are for the future good behaviour of the person bailed and for his appearance before king and council whenever duly warned or summoned, or for his future good behaviour and that he will be a true and faithful liege of the king and his heirs for the rest of his life. (Many of these are for persons going abroad.) Other conditions include appearance before king and council on a specified day (this is usually joined with some other condition probably related to the charges he would then have to answer); good behaviour by a bailiff towards the tenants of a manor and the king, (File 4 no. 54) that the person bailed will not become any lord's retainer (File 4 no. 116); or that the person bailed will leave the city and county of York within fifteen days and not return there without licence. (File 4 no. 110) The file also includes four bails on special pardons. (File 4 nos. 106, 121, 143, 144) File 5 consists of two quite distinct sections, which are separated from each other in the file by a large stop. The first section (Other than nos. 1-3) is in strict chronological order, with small stops in the file between material of different regnal years. (Nos. 59-62 are of 1 Henry VII; Nos. 44-58 of 2 Henry VII; Nos. 21-43 of 3 Henry VII; Nos. 18-20 of 4 Henry VII; Nos. 11A-17 of 5 Henry VII; Nos. 6-10 of 7 Henry VII; Nos. 4-5 of 8 Henry VII.) It consists for the most part (The exceptions are nos. 1 and 5 which are conditional bonds for good behaviour and the payment of money; no. 3 a returned writ of dedimus potestatem; and nos. 9 and 11A which are memoranda of injunctions by the Chancellor.) of uncancelled memoranda of bails or recognizances, which, like those in File 4, all have an annotation indicating that they have been enrolled. Again most are for future good behaviour or for appearance before the king and council at a specified or unspecified future date; others include undertakings not to trade with the lands of the archduke (File 5 no. 2), and to produce an heir whenever required. (File 5 no. 30) The second section consists of conditional bonds and memoranda of bails or recognizances and of injunctions, together with one returned writ of dedimus potestatem. (File 5 no. 87) Almost all have been subsequently cancelled. (The exceptions are nos. 68, 69 and 87.) File 5 is not in any kind of chronological order either of cancellation or of date when the memorandum or bond was made. The conditional bonds acknowledge debts either to the king (E.g. Nos. 70-75), or to a particular individual (E.g. No. 68, the Archbishop of Canterbury: No. 69 Richard Hatton) or group of individuals (E.g. to Lovell, Mordaunt, Hobart, Empson, Hussey and Lucas (Nos. 63,64 and 79): and secure the payment of sums of money, appearance before the king's council, future good behaviour, or various other matters. The conditions of bail noted in the memoranda are for future good behaviour, appearance before the king's council at a specified future date, surrender at a specific date to the Tower (E.g. Nos. 76, 98), and other matters. The apparently contemporary cover of File 6 describes its contents as being `Retorna vicecomitum de execucione super recogniciones et aliorum brevium regiorum de annis octavo, nono et decimo regis Jacobi'. It contains a large number of returned writs of elegit together with a number of writs de liberatione and levari facias. It also, however, contains a considerable variety of writs and returns of other kinds, ranging from miscellaneous inquisitions (E.g. Nos. 308-309, 310-311) and inquisitions ad quod damnum for grants of markets and fairs and the like (Nos. 10-11, 102-103, 108-109, 163-164) to returns by commissioners of sewers (Nos. 297, 307), of highways (No. 304) and of bridges (Nos. 302-303) and returned commissions for the seizure of land (Nos. 284-289, 291-293) or the assignment of dower (Nos. 166-167, 282-283). There are also several returned writs for the election of coroners (Nos. 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 14, 17, 20, 28, 30, 31, 60, 68, 71, 72, 80, 264) and verderers (Nos. 15, 42, 85, 268), mandates to take up the degree of serjeant-at-law (Nos. 57, 62), returned writs for the assessment of damages in cases in Chancery (Nos. 86-87, 170-171), returned writs of corpus cum causa (Nos. 2, 38-39, 113-114), returned writs of dedimus potestatem for oaths of fealty (Nos. 66-67, 73-74), writs of supplicavit (Nos. 54-55), counter-writs of supersedeas (Nos. 44, 45, 75), and other writs of various types. Files 7 to 12 are probably not original files: they were found among the residue of Brevia Regia sorted and filed by twentieth-century thonging. They are, however, so closely connected with C 255/8/4-5 that they have been included in the present series. File 7 and File 8 contain memoranda, largely uncancelled, of recognizances enrolled on the close rolls: the subject matter is similar to that of files 4 and 5. Files 9-12 are warrants under the king's sign manual, addressed to the Keepers of the Rolls. They order the cancellation of recognizances: in many cases because money had been paid to the king's use to John Heron as Treasurer of the Chamber. Other warrants give no specific reason, or state the conditions of the original bond had been fulfilled. Dece
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