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Series
Court of Wards and Liveries: Pleadings
Catalogue reference: WARD 13
What's it about?
WARD 13
This series contains bills, answers, replications, rejoinders and other documents associated with pleadings before the Court of Wards and Liveries. Many of the documents bear an earlier date, probably that when they were delivered into court,...
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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WARD 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Wards and Liveries: Pleadings
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Date (When the record was created)
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Edward VI - Charles I
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains bills, answers, replications, rejoinders and other documents associated with pleadings before the Court of Wards and Liveries.
Many of the documents bear an earlier date, probably that when they were delivered into court, which may be anything up to several years earlier than the date of the file.
The catalogue does not currently contain any descriptions of these cases. Details of parties are available in paper finding aids at The National Archives described below
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arrangement is contemporary and based on a system of files organised by legal term until 1600 when an alphabetical arrangement by plaintiff's name was introduced alongside the terminal one. From 1638 the arrangement is purely alphabetical by plaintiff's name.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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There is a contemporary list of the terminal files in: IND 1/10218 IND 1/10219 IND 1/10220 IND 1/10221
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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174 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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- Topics
- Archives and libraries
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14208/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
30,235 records
Within the department: WARD
Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries
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Court of Wards and Liveries: Pleadings
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