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Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions

Catalogue reference: KB 13

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KB 13

A collection of coroners' inquisitions mostly from counties in the Western assize circuit, but with a few from the Oxford circuit and from Nottinghamshire, which may have been handed in by the circuit clerk after King's Bench ceased regularly to...

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KB 13

Title
Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions
Date

1748-1808

Description

A collection of coroners' inquisitions mostly from counties in the Western assize circuit, but with a few from the Oxford circuit and from Nottinghamshire, which may have been handed in by the circuit clerk after King's Bench ceased regularly to receive inquisitions from clerks of assize in the mid eighteenth century.

The vast majority of the inquisitions come from the period between about 1748 and 1770.

Arrangement
Arrangement

KB 13/ 6-9 are in artificial files apparently created during the 1840s, while the earlier pieces consist of small bundles.

Related material

For coroners' inquisitions before 1750 see:

Inquisitions before the later fourteenth century are in JUST 2 KB 9 KB 10 KB 11

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

9 bundles and files

Unpublished finding aids
A typescript handlist of Cornish inquests, compiled by J P Derriman in 1997, is available on open access.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10017/

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Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions