Series
Assizes: Norfolk Circuit: Indictments and Other Documents Recovered from Private...
Catalogue reference: ASSI 16
What's it about?
ASSI 16
The documents in this series cover the counties of Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk and Suffolk. The latest items in the series date from 1699, but the great bulk date from the period between 1660 and 1688, with three items...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ASSI 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Assizes: Norfolk Circuit: Indictments and Other Documents Recovered from Private Custody
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1554-1699
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Description (What the record is about)
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The documents in this series cover the counties of Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk and Suffolk. The latest items in the series date from 1699, but the great bulk date from the period between 1660 and 1688, with three items from 1642-1643 and eleven from between 1653 and the Restoration of Charles II. The dates of the two items earlier than 1642 are rather misleading. The items vary greatly in size, some containing a complete file, others only one or two documents. They include calendars of the peace and gaol delivery, grand and petty jury lists, indictments, depositions, presentments, petitions, writs and miscellaneous correspondence. There are some 'recusancy files' of indictments for recusancy, county by county, but further indictments for recusancy are in the ordinary indictment files.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series needs a full and detailed listing, which will be undertaken when circumstances permit. In the meantime the series has been relisted in outline in date order, and with references where appropriate to the files for the same period which remained in public custody and are now in ASSI 35
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Further strays from the Norfolk circuit records of this period are now in other repositories. Suffolk portions for the second half of the seventeenth century are in the East Suffolk Record Office at Ipswich Bedfordshire portions for 57 assize sessions between 1653 and 1694 are in the Bedfordshire Record Office at Bedford.
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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)
- Justices of Assize, Norfolk Circuit, 1541-1876
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 75 bundle(s)
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These Norfolk Circuit records have been recovered from the private custody of a variety of different individuals at various dates since 1934. It is not known why they came to be so scattered, but most and perhaps all of them had escaped from public custody by 1800, when the then clerk to the Norfolk circuit, Henry Edgell, reported to a parliamentary committee that the oldest records then in his custody were for the year 1689.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2414/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: ASSI
Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius
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Assizes: Norfolk Circuit: Indictments and Other Documents Recovered from Private Custody