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Series
Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Answers
Catalogue reference: PROB 25
What's it about?
PROB 25
Prerogative Court of Canterbury answers entered as the response made by the opposing party to the allegation of the plaintiff.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PROB 25
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Title (The name of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Answers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1664-1854
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prerogative Court of Canterbury answers entered as the response made by the opposing party to the allegation of the plaintiff.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The answers in PROB 25 were kept in volumes before 1785, and after 1785 they were kept in bundles.
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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)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-1858
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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36 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
- Wills and probate
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The answer, in the terminology of the ecclesiastical courts, was the response made by the opposing party to the plaintiff's pleas known as the allegation. Answers could be taken personally under the auspices of the respondent's proctor, and produced and repeated before a surrogate in chambers, with a notary public as witness. Personal answers could be decreed by the Court.
Various replicatory allegations and answers might be subsequently made by both sides.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12136/
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