Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Cash Books

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1803-1868

Cash books of the bank accounts of the surveyors general of woods and forests and the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues. They relate to various accounts, principally those held with Coutts, to 1848, the Bank of England (the woods and forests fund) and the Bank of Ireland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, both from 1856 onwards.

These volumes are cash books of the bank accounts held by the Surveyor General of Woods and Forests (1803-1810), the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues (1810-1832 and 1851 onwards) and the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings (1832-1851). They record receipts and disbursements, but not usually in any great detail.

It is not clear how many series of volumes are represented in this series, as changes of format appear to reflect innovations in the method of entering and recording transactions as well as changes in the names and spheres of activity of the account holders.

The earliest items in the series seem to have formed part of a continuous series of general cash books, originally G[eneral] 1-11, covering the period from February 1803 to May 1833. A second series overlaps the first in both dates of coverage and original numbering, being nos 9, 11, 11A and 12-25 of their series, and running from April 1832 to March 1848.

The pages in the second of these series were pre-printed for distinct entries for the woods and forests fund, the New Street fund and the Holyhead Road fund, all of which were handled in the unified Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings at that time.

No later volumes of cash books survive, but the transactions are recorded, in a different format, in the cash abstract books in this division.

Public Record(s)

English

• Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1810-1832
• Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924
• Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, 1832-1851
• Surveyor General of Crown Lands, 1625-1810
• Surveyor General of Woods and Forests, 1715-1810

48 volume(s)

Topics

Ireland

Forestry

Banking

It is believed that cash books later than 1868 were destroyed under the terms of a destruction schedule for records of the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments in 1905.