Record revealed
Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
The oldest complete document at The National Archives, this charter recording a grant of land dates back over 1,000 years.
Series
Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue: Modern Deeds, Series E
Catalogue reference: LR 16
What's it about?
LR 16
Private conveyancing deeds, and transcripts of them, acquired by the auditors of the land revenue. Most of the records are likely either to have been obtained from the Augmentation Office or brought to the auditors' office for enrolment. A...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LR 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue: Modern Deeds, Series E
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Date (When the record was created)
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1180 - 1812
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Description (What the record is about)
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Private conveyancing deeds, and transcripts of them, acquired by the auditors of the land revenue. Most of the records are likely either to have been obtained from the Augmentation Office or brought to the auditors' office for enrolment. A substantial portion of the series is represented by material related to the jointures of Queen Henrietta Maria and Catherine of Braganza (LR 16/80 to LR 16/226). On the death of the Queen Consort any documents relating to lands held in jointure were to be delivered into the Exchequer and thereafter into the records of the auditors of land revenue. LR 16/147 is a schedule of such deeds for Queen Catherine of Braganza, produced according to an order of the Exchequer dated Easter term 1711. Another copy of this schedule can be found in LR 2/135.
The series contains also larger deeds which have been separated from those in LR 14. Consequently, there are links between the two series, for instance some material relating to the Hospital of St Mary within Cripplegate, (London) and its founder William Elsing or concerning the Minories (London) is findable in both collections. In addition, there are a variety of letters patents, or copies of, being mostly leases or grants of Crown lands or related offices. The earliest record is an undated grant c 1180-1250 of lands in Norfolk. The latest record is a sale of trust premises held by one of the chief clerks of the Treasury, dated 1812.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This is an artificial series of deeds referenced using consecutive numbers from 1 to 330. The current arrangement is the result of a project carried out between 2020 and 2023. The records have been rearranged, where possible, by subject and chronologically within each of the eight main groups identified as follows:
1. Documents with no obvious grouping arranged chronologically, including also material that can be linked to LR 14 (LR 16/1 to LR 16/62).
2. Deeds concerning Sir Francis Barrington of Hatfield Braddock [Broad Oak], Essex, relating to a tenement in Catterick, Yorkshire (LR 16/63 to LR 16/79).
3. Deeds concerning the jointure of Queen Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort to Charles I (LR 16/80 to LR 16/122).
4. Deeds relating to the jointure of Queen Catherine de Braganza, Queen Consort to Charles II for lands in various counties (LR 16/123 to LR 16/147).
5. Deeds of the jointure of Queen Catherine de Braganza for lands in Cheshire (LR 16/148 to LR 16/161).
6. Deeds of the jointure of Queen Catherine de Braganza for lands in Lincolnshire (LR 16/162 to LR 16/226).
7. Letters patents and other deeds from various monarchs relating to various tenements or pertaining to offices related to the land revenue, including transcriptions, extracts and copies (LR 16/227 to LR 16/313).
8. Copies of various records (LR 16/314 to LR 16/330).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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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English and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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330 papers and parchment membranes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1900 to 1903 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/C10315/
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Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue: Modern Deeds, Series E
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