Series
Court of Chancery: Office of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery: Indexes...
Catalogue reference: C 276
What's it about?
C 276
These records comprise the account ledgers and indexes relating to funds in Chancery. Indexes provide the names of all the parties named in the Chancery action who are to be provided money from the estate
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 276
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Chancery: Office of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery: Indexes and Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1725-1841
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records comprise the account ledgers and indexes relating to funds in Chancery. Indexes provide the names of all the parties named in the Chancery action who are to be provided money from the estate
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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)
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Office of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, 1726-1976
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 100 volume(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Except for the indexes, pieces require 3 days notice to produce
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2010 Ministry of Justice
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The custody of these records can only be traced back with certainty to 1972 when they were known to be in the custody of the Supreme Court Pay Office to 1975 and the Court Funds Office, thereafter, both at the Royal Courts of Justice London WC2A 2LL. During the 1980s the records were moved to the Public Record Office repository, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF. In 2003, the records were temporarily held in the basement of the Court Funds Office in 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE before being moved in the same year into private storage at Bishops Furniture Storage in Battersea London acting on the behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. In 2008 the records were briefly moved to Bishops Storage in Chessington London before being moved in 2009 to Harwell Laboratories in Oxfordshire for preparation for transfer to The National Archives. The remaining records that were not selected for preservation are in the custody of Bishops Storage in Chessington.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All extant Account indexes and ledgers have been preserved.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17049/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
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Within the department: C
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Court of Chancery: Office of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery: Indexes and Accounts