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Series
Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Purchase Receipts
Catalogue reference: J 339
What's it about?
J 339
These records comprise receipts of purchases of government consols and payments out of the settlement fund by the Masters of Chancery under the authority of the Court of Chancery Accountant General. This would be carried out under direction from...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- J 339
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Purchase Receipts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1841-1846
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records comprise receipts of purchases of government consols and payments out of the settlement fund by the Masters of Chancery under the authority of the Court of Chancery Accountant General. This would be carried out under direction from the Court of Chancery once a settlement had been agreed for the infant or sick person.
The receipts are consistent in text and similar to the following: 'Received then of Thomas Walker Esquire Accountant General of the Court of Chancery a cheque note number[Cheque number] drawn on the Governor and Comptroller of the Bank of England for the sum of £....... which note is dated [date] and made payable to [name of subject] pursuant to an order dated [date] and a report dated [date] last made in thte cause [title of cause]'.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records are arranged chronologically.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also C 279
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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)
- Accountant General in the Court of Chancery, 1726-1872
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 9 volume(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- 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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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
- Government finances
- Children
- Banking
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These records can 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 sited at the Royal Courts of Justice London WC2A 2LL. During the 1980s the records were moved to the Public Record Office repository at 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 behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. In 2008 the records were moved to Bishops Storage in Chessington, Surrey 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 transfer continue to be held by Bishops on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in Chessington Surrey.
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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 purchase receipts selected (where extant).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18401/
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Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and related courts
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Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Purchase Receipts
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