Record revealed
Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
The oldest complete document at The National Archives, this charter recording a grant of land dates back over 1,000 years.
Department
Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries
Catalogue reference: WARD
What's it about?
WARD
Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries. They are not arranged systematically by area of business and documents relating to all fields of the administration of wardship and livery during the period of the court's existence and earlier are...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WARD
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1100-1891
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries.
They are not arranged systematically by area of business and documents relating to all fields of the administration of wardship and livery during the period of the court's existence and earlier are found in all the WARD series. A rough guide is as follows and strays will be found in most series.
- Inquisitions Post Mortem: WARD 7
- Grants of wardship and livery: WARD 4, WARD 5, WARD 6, WARD 9 and WARD 12
- Leases of wards' lands: WARD 6, WARD 9 and WARD 12
- Deeds and evidences: WARD 2
- Valuation documents (surveys and extents): WARD 4, WARD 5 and WARD 9
- Ministers' and receiver generals' accounts: WARD 8, WARD 9, WARD 10 and WARD 11
- Process for the recovery of debt: WARD 9, WARD 10 and WARD 11
- Judicial business: WARD 1, WARD 2, WARD 3, WARD 9, WARD 10, WARD 11, WARD 13, WARD 14 and WARD 15.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
- Arrangement
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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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16 series
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Many records unfit for production
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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
- Debt
- Landed estates
- Wills and probate
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Court of Wards and Liveries was created in 1542 when the Court of Wards, which had control on wards and the administration of their land, was joined to the office of Surveyor of the King?s Liveries. It was mainly responsible for collecting feudal dues and practical and legal matters relating to the Crown?s right of wardship and livery. The Court was formally abolished in 1660.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C258/
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