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Court of King's Bench: Plea and Crown Sides: Miscellanea
Catalogue reference: KB 140
What's it about?
KB 140
A miscellaneous and largely internally disordered collection of records mainly of the Plea Side of the Court of King's Bench and dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, although there are also some stray indictments from files of the Crown...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KB 140
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of King's Bench: Plea and Crown Sides: Miscellanea
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Date (When the record was created)
- Edward III - 1874
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Description (What the record is about)
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A miscellaneous and largely internally disordered collection of records mainly of the Plea Side of the Court of King's Bench and dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, although there are also some stray indictments from files of the Crown Side.
Some of the items are survivors from series the bulk of which were, for the 18th and 19th centuries, destroyed under schedule, including prisoners' papers, docket rolls, various categories of writ, including recordari facias loquelam, satisfactions and common bails.
There are numerous records of proceedings in inferior courts, principally borough courts but also others, including Irish courts, which were brought into King's Bench on writs of error. Individual items of importance include a list of King's Bench clerks in 1653, and the seal of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland in the reign of Henry VIII.
Further record files are in KB 145.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Further Crown Side records are in
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Those which are strays from series of files will eventually be restored to those series; some complete files have already been removed.
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 54 bundles and files
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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
- Ireland
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10074/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
24,904 records
Within the department: KB
Records of the Court of King's Bench and other courts
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Court of King's Bench: Plea and Crown Sides: Miscellanea
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