Series
Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions
Catalogue reference: KB 13
What's it about?
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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KB 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1740-1808
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
KB 13/ 6-9 are in artificial files apparently created during the 1840s, while the earlier pieces consist of small bundles.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For coroners' inquisitions before 1750 see:
Inquisitions before the later fourteenth century are in JUST 2 KB 9 KB 10 KB 11
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 9 bundles and files
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A typescript handlist of Cornish inquests, compiled by J P Derriman in 1997, is available on open access.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10017/
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Within the department: KB
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Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions