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Series
Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Correspondence and Papers of Officials
Catalogue reference: PROB 39
What's it about?
PROB 39
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of officers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, mainly registrars, record keepers, clerks and proctors, together with some commissions of appointment and accounts. Many of the papers relate to the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PROB 39
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Title (The name of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Correspondence and Papers of Officials
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1659-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of officers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, mainly registrars, record keepers, clerks and proctors, together with some commissions of appointment and accounts. Many of the papers relate to the unofficial business of the officers.
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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)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-1858
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 23 files and rolls
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These records, which relate to the unofficial business of court officers, are not officially records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury or Doctors' Commons. It is likely that they have become confused at some point with official records, and were therefore transferred to the Court of Probate, and in 1874 to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Select index of Prerogative Court of Canterbury proctors and other officials 16th-19th centuries giving biographical details of their careers
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For report of the commissioners for examining into the duties of officers of the courts of justice see Sessional Papers, House of Commons 18 June 1823, 462 For report by commissioners appointed to inquire into the practice and jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, which provides a description of the procedures of the court, see Sessional Papers, House of Commons 27 February 1832, 199
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12150/
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Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Correspondence and Papers of Officials
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