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Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
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Series
Assizes: Northern and North-Eastern Circuits: Estreats
Catalogue reference: ASSI 46
What's it about?
ASSI 46
The documents in this series are bundles of loose papers covering the period 1843 to 1890. Until 1876 they are the records of the Northern circuit; thereafter they are the records of both the Northern and North-Eastern circuits. All of the...
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ASSI 46
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Title (The name of the record)
- Assizes: Northern and North-Eastern Circuits: Estreats
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Date (When the record was created)
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1843-1890
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Description (What the record is about)
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The documents in this series are bundles of loose papers covering the period 1843 to 1890. Until 1876 they are the records of the Northern circuit; thereafter they are the records of both the Northern and North-Eastern circuits. All of the estreats relate to criminal, not civil, cases. The series contains some correspondence between the Treasury and the clerk of assize asking for estreats to be sent to the Queen's Remembrancer's Office, under 22 & 23 Vict c 21, s 38 and s 24, so that debts could be recovered.
The estreats are paper draft and engrossed parchment copy returns of fines, issues, amercements, penalties and recognizances set, imposed, lost or forfeited at each assize session, which were extracted (estreated) from the records of the court. A typical estreat in this series provides a list of persons fined, etc., at a particular assize session, giving the name of the person, the nature of the offence and the amount of the fine, etc. Many of the estreats in this series are nil returns.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 bundle(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2438/
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Over 27 million records
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Within the department: ASSI
Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius
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Assizes: Northern and North-Eastern Circuits: Estreats
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