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COURT OF REQUESTS

Catalogue reference: BCC/J/Req

What’s it about?

This record is about the COURT OF REQUESTS.

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Reference

BCC/J/Req

Title

COURT OF REQUESTS

Description

Proceedings 1816-1843

Summons 1832-1847

Fees 1816-1845

Account books of cash received 1816-1846

Account books of monies paid 1827-1846

Ledgers 1816-1842

Deposits 1820-1843

Executions 1816-1847

Registers of orders nisi, etc 1835-1847

Receipts for deposits 1836-1843

Miscellaneous 1816,1839

Related material

<p>See also records of the Court of Conscience [ref. BCC/J/Con]</p>

Held by
Bristol Archives
Language

English

Administrative / biographical background

By "An Act for the more speedy and easy Recovery of Small Debts, in the City and County of the City of Bristol, and the liberties thereof, and in the several Parishes and Places therein mentioned, in the Counties of Gloucester and Somerset" a court of Requests was set up in Bristol to try cases of debt for less than £15.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1d82c3a3-5192-4dab-abfb-ad29782ab354/

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104,319 records

This record is held at Bristol Archives

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COURT OF REQUESTS