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Crown Record Agency: Papers

Catalogue reference: LRRO 11

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LRRO 11

The bulk of this series consists of reports, transcripts, correspondence and other material amassed by successive keepers of the land revenue records and enrolments in their capacity as Crown record agents. There are also a few letters to...

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Reference
LRRO 11
Title
Crown Record Agency: Papers
Date
1788-1900
Description

The bulk of this series consists of reports, transcripts, correspondence and other material amassed by successive keepers of the land revenue records and enrolments in their capacity as Crown record agents. There are also a few letters to late-eighteenth century Auditors of the Land Revenue, concerning searches in the records in their custody, and a small number of items relating to the private record agency business of the Hewlett family during the nineteenth century.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The papers in this series, which are highly miscellaneous, have been listed as far as possible in terms of the subject to which they relate; in general, the date given is the date of the document reported on, transcribed or translated, rather than the date of the report, transcription or translation.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
32 box(es)
Subjects
Topics
Personal and family papers
Custodial history
By the time of his retirement in 1901, Maurice Hewlett was in possession of a considerable quantity of papers, accumulated by the family firm in the course of its private record agency business. The precise order of events is not clear, but it appears likely that this material had come into Hewlett's hands by the mid-1890s, and thus to have been caught up in the move of the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments from its original premises at 6 Whitehall to St Stephen's House, Victoria Embankment. On his retirement, Hewlett made some attempt to divide the mass of correspondence, papers, reports and associated documents, removing those which he believed to relate to private business, and leaving behind official material. The papers which remained in official custody, first in the Land Revenue Record Office and, from 1903, in the Public Record Office, now form the present series.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10327/

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