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Series
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Answers etc, before 1660
Catalogue reference: C 4
What's it about?
C 4
The records in this series consist of pleadings in equity cases initiated in the court of Chancery. They comprise a miscellaneous collection of bills, answers, replications, rejoinders, commissions and depositions which have become detached 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)
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C 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Answers etc, before 1660
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1272-c1790
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series consist of pleadings in equity cases initiated in the court of Chancery.
They comprise a miscellaneous collection of bills, answers, replications, rejoinders, commissions and depositions which have become detached from their related documents. The related pleadings may perhaps be found in C 1, C 2 or C 3
Also included are some odd earlier items, and later miscellanea from the Six Clerks Office, including papers relating to the late eighteenth-century inquiry into the six clerks. There are also some materials created by the Court of Requests (REQ) and the Court of Wards: WARD.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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After being under arrangement for over 150 years, this series was finally listed in 2001-2008
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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173 bundle(s)
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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
- Litigation
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3567/
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Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Answers etc, before 1660
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