Series
Duchy of Lancaster: Bonds of Obligation
Catalogue reference: DL 24
Date: c1509-1837
This series consists of bonds of obligation created as part of the administration of the estate of the Duchy of Lancaster and the operation of the...
Series
Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Accounts
Catalogue reference: LRRO 2
What's it about?
LRRO 2
General accounts of the Surveyors General and Commissioners of Woods, etc. (1802 to 1848); general accounts together with the subsidiary accounts of receivers, surveyors, etc. (1848 to 1851); declared accounts (1832 to 1842); and audited...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LRRO 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1802-1893
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Description (What the record is about)
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General accounts of the Surveyors General and Commissioners of Woods, etc. (1802 to 1848); general accounts together with the subsidiary accounts of receivers, surveyors, etc. (1848 to 1851); declared accounts (1832 to 1842); and audited abstracts (1842 to 1893).
Accounts down to 1832 appear to have been deposited for convenience and safe custody in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, soon after its establishment by statute 2 Will IV, c1 (1832). From 1832 onwards, deposit was a legal requirement, under the same statute, but the terms of deposit were not thought to be altogether clear, and a further statute, 7 & 8 Vict, c89, was intended to clarify the situation. This specified that not only the general, but also the subsidiary, accounts of the land revenues should be deposited in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, within three years of audit and declaration. This appears to lie behind the change in format of the surviving records from 1848 onwards.
No details of the land revenue (the Crown Estate) appear until the account for 1811.
The first seven volumes of LRRO 21 were transferred to this series in March 1962.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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General accounts for the same period, audited by the auditors or acting auditors of the land revenue are in LR 4
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Auditors of Land Revenue, 1554-1832
- Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, 1832-1961
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 31 volume(s)
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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
- Crown lands and estates
- Forestry
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- It is believed that general accounts and abstracts of the cash account of later date than those now in the series were destroyed under the terms of a destruction schedule for the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments in 1905.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10318/
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