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Series
Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Panella Billarum Files
Catalogue reference: KB 154
What's it about?
KB 154
This series was an offshoot from the Brevia Billarum series (KB 151), from which the jury process and panels were removed at Michaelmas 1571 to create it. The files vary greatly in size, because the bulk of the material consisted of cases which...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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KB 154
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Panella Billarum Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1571-1686
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series was an offshoot from the Brevia Billarum series (KB 151), from which the jury process and panels were removed at Michaelmas 1571 to create it. The files vary greatly in size, because the bulk of the material consisted of cases which went to nisi prius hearings at the Lent or Summer assizes. The preceding files to those sessions, for Hilary and Trinity terms respectively were therefore large, with the Easter and Michaelmas terms smaller. At Hilary 1591 the Hilary and Trinity files were remodelled, with the creation of 39 coverless files for Trinity term and 36 for Hilary term, one from each county plus one more for distraints in all counties; there were three fewer files for Hilary because the three northern counties had no Lent assizes. Michaelmas and Easter files continued in the original form, restyled as Venire Facias files. Some cities that were of county status had their own occasional files, and some were included in their appropriate county files. Very few files survive later than 1631.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Panels and jury process earlier than Michelmas term 1571 will be found in KB 151
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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Latin
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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Documents held off-site
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Unsorted
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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
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10086/
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Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Panella Billarum Files
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