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Series
Court of Requests: Pleadings
Catalogue reference: REQ 2
What's it about?
REQ 2
Pleadings in the Court of Requests, but with a few other papers, including decree and order books, writs, warrants, certificates and bonds. They deal with matters of property title and possession, annuities, extents, dower, jointure and marriage...
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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REQ 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Requests: Pleadings
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Date (When the record was created)
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Henry VII - Charles I
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Description (What the record is about)
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Pleadings in the Court of Requests, but with a few other papers, including decree and order books, writs, warrants, certificates and bonds. They deal with matters of property title and possession, annuities, extents, dower, jointure and marriage contracts, matters of villeinage, water courses and highways, wilful escape, forfeitures to the king by recognizance, riots, forgery and perjury. Occasionally, they deal with criminal matters such as civil disturbance, forgery and, by the late sixteenth century, matters of Admiralty jurisdiction.
Details of cases are being entered into the online catalogue from the existing finding aids (starting at the beginning of REQ 2), but for some years to come the main route of access will remain the paper finding aids available at The National Archives.
Where details of cases have been entered into the online catalogue, a code has been given at the end of each item description to show the type of case, as follows:
- SFP = sole female plaintiff
- SMP = sole male plaintiff
- JFP = joint female plaintiff plus others (eg Susan Jones plus others)
- JMP = joint male plaintiff plus others (eg Robert Jones plus others)
- XP = husband and wife as plaintiff
- JXP = husband and wife as plaintiff plus others (eg Robert and Susan Jones plus others)
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Readers should note that the greater part of the surviving proceedings in REQ 2/410-892 (400 boxes), for the reign of James I and all of Charles I's reign, remain unlisted.
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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32000 bundle(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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Calendars of REQ 2/1-40 137-311 and 387-409 will be found on open access. Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the precise location. When using the calendars, bear in mind that these records are produced to the reading rooms by the box. For example, to see REQ 2/66/15, order REQ 2/66 and look for bundle 15
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Some cases of 1497 to 1569 are transcribed in Select cases in the Court of Requests, ed E S Leadom, Selden Society, XII (1898).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13323/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
26,312 records
Within the department: REQ
Records of the Court of Requests
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Court of Requests: Pleadings
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