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Series
Admiralty: Royal Greenwich Hospital: Legal and Miscellaneous Papers
Catalogue reference: ADM 76
What's it about?
ADM 76
These consist largely of lawyers' drafts and correspondence, but also contain other material.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 76
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Royal Greenwich Hospital: Legal and Miscellaneous Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1675-1918
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Description (What the record is about)
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These consist largely of lawyers' drafts and correspondence, but also contain other material.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series has been arranged (so far as is practicable, alphabetically) under the following subject headings: the Hospital, generally; the Greenwich and other Southern Estates; the West Indian estates and interests; and the Northern Estates.
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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)
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- Board of Admiralty, Royal Greenwich Hospital, 1832-1964
- Royal Greenwich Hospital, 1694-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 95 boxes, rolls and volumes
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1785/
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