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Special Collections: Miscellaneous Objects Recovered from the Records of the Courts...
Catalogue reference: SC 16
What's it about?
SC 16
Coffers, skippets and other artefacts (otherwise in PRO 30/1), including keys and leather ink bottles, anciently used for the storage or creation of records; objects associated with or recovered from the site of the Rolls Chapel and the Liberty...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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SC 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Special Collections: Miscellaneous Objects Recovered from the Records of the Courts at Westminster, and from the Site of the Liberty of the Rolls
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Date (When the record was created)
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13th century-19th century
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Description (What the record is about)
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Coffers, skippets and other artefacts (otherwise in PRO 30/1), including keys and leather ink bottles, anciently used for the storage or creation of records; objects associated with or recovered from the site of the Rolls Chapel and the Liberty of the Rolls, including pottery, sculpture, and the font used in baptismal ceremonies; and miscellaneous engravings, printed ephemera, textiles, coins, wallpaper and domestic utensils transferred with the records.
The most typical examples of archival storage are the numerous pouches dating from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, of white leather or canvas, fastened with leather cords, and endorsed with memoranda identifying their contents.
The series is an artificial one. Many of the items are of unknown provenance though it is probable that most of the coffers, forcers and skippets originally housed records deposited in the Treasury of the Receipt (that is, in the several treasuries which included the Chapel of the Pyx at Westminster, and the offices of the Receipt itself). A few documents have a provenance among the deeds and evidences of the Court of Wards or are of Chancery origin.
The series includes an incomplete set of keys to the locks which secured the chest in C 46.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For other forcers, skippets and similar small containers see especially E 27
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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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- Chancery, 1066-1875
- Court of Wards and Liveries, 1541-1660
- Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt, 1109-1833
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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62 artefacts 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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By the mid-eighteenth century records from the Treasury of the Receipt were consolidated in the Chapter House at Westminster. In 1859 the Chapter House's archival holdings were transferred to the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane. Records from the Court of Wards, after its abolition, were housed with the records of the Exchequer in the Westminster treasuries. Records relating to Chancery cases were held in the offices of the Masters in Chancery.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- See also Special Collections: Miscellaneous Objects Recovered from the Records of the Courts at Westminster, and from the Site of the Liberty of the Rolls (formerly introductory note to SC 16)
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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 Liberty and Chapel of the Rolls from medieval times housed the Domus Conversorum, and also provided offices for the clerks of Chancery outside Westminster. From the late fifteenth century onwards it provided a repository for the records of Chancery until becoming, from 1851, the site of a purpose-built archive for the Public Records.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Many pieces in the series were displayed in the Public Record Office Museum, Chancery Lane, at various times between 1901 and 1956, and are described in successive editions of theCatalogue of Manuscripts and other Objects in the Museum of the Public Record Office (various editions, 1903-1948).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13534/
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