Record revealed
The first American invention to obtain an English patent
These intricate 1716 drawings were submitted by Sybilla Masters in the final stage of securing a patent for machinery for 'cleaning and curing Indian corn'.
Series
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: MAF 25
What's it about?
MAF 25
Comprises files relating to particular commons and mainly concerned with instruments executed under the provisions of the Enclosure, Commons and Copyhold Acts. Includes files relating to the destruction of weeds re-registered from the LOY file...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 25
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Title (The name of the record)
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1800-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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Comprises files relating to particular commons and mainly concerned with instruments executed under the provisions of the Enclosure, Commons and Copyhold Acts.
Includes files relating to the destruction of weeds re-registered from the LOY file series (MAF 139) and from the LO/N file series (MAF 235)
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Catalogue entries for the items within each piece have been arbitrarily numbered in sequence for system reasons; these numbers do not appear on the documents themselves.
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Agriculture, 1889-1903
- Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1903-1919
- Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Commission, 1851-1882
- Land Commissioners for England, 1882-1889
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1955
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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264 boxes and files
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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
- Food and drink
- Fishing
- Farming
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A hard copy index to this series is available in the reading rooms at The National Archives
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10426/
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Correspondence and Papers
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