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HO 42. Letters and papers. Contains some completed questionnaires, collated by diocesan...
Catalogue reference: HO 42/55
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This record is about the HO 42. Letters and papers. Contains some completed questionnaires, collated by diocesan... dating from 1800 Dec 01-1800 Dec 31 in the series Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 42/55
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1800 Dec 01-1800 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
- HO 42. Letters and papers. Contains some completed questionnaires, collated by diocesan bishops for the Home Secretary, regarding the harvest, crop availability and prices.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Crop returns, completed by parish incumbents and forwarded to the Home Secretary by diocesan bishops, answered five questions: What has been the produce of the late crop in your district and county, so far as you have means of information, comparatively with former crops; or, if you can state it, what is the estimated number of bushels per acre, distinguishing the wheat, barley, oats and potatoes; and also stating the comparative crops of hay, beans, and turnips? What is the price in your market town of wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, hay, and beans, and beef and mutton, in the month of October, 1800, comparatively with the same period in 1799 and 1798? Has the produce of the last harvest been begun to be consumed; is there any reason to believe that there is any considerable quantity of old wheat in store? Has much foreign wheat or flour been brought into your part of the country? Is there much use made of rice, barley, or oats, as substitutes?
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The digital images of these records were taken from old microfilm copies. A later cataloguing project restored the chronological arrangement of the papers and re-foliated the pages. As a result, the folio numbering of the catalogue descriptions for individual items does not match the numbering of the digital images, and some images may appear out of sequence.
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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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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Farming
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1905674/
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HO 42
Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III
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