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Series
Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series I
Catalogue reference: LR 6
What's it about?
LR 6
The core of this series consists of receivers' accounts of crown lands in England and Wales prepared by the auditors of the Court of Augmentations before 1554, and by the auditors of land revenue thereafter.Also found, however, are miscellaneous...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LR 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series I
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Date (When the record was created)
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1536-1756
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Description (What the record is about)
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The core of this series consists of receivers' accounts of crown lands in England and Wales prepared by the auditors of the Court of Augmentations before 1554, and by the auditors of land revenue thereafter.
Also found, however, are miscellaneous accounts of the receivers general of the household, of taxes and of all arrears of the land revenues, which were also audited by the auditors of land revenue.
There are also receivers' accounts relating to the jointures of the seventeenth century queens consort: Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria and Catherine of Braganza.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other major series of receivers' accounts are: LR 7
Vouchers subsidiary to them are in LR 5
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1550 roll(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1900 Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10305/
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Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series I
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