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Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Reynardson
Catalogue reference: C 9
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C 9
The records in this series consist of pleadings in equity cases initiated in the court of Chancery. They often comprise the plaintiff's bill of complaint only, but the defendant's answer and other documents in the process, including the...
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C 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Reynardson
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1643-1714
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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 often comprise the plaintiff's bill of complaint only, but the defendant's answer and other documents in the process, including the plaintiffs's replication to the answer, are also filed in many cases.
By the reign of James I, the bill gave the plaintiff's name, rank in life, occupation and place of residence.
Matters in dispute include inheritance, lands, trusts, mortgages, debts and marriage settlements.
The first 44 bundles (6782 entries) of this series is searchable by names of first named plaintiff and one or more defendant, place and subject, thanks to the work of the Friends of The National Archives in inputting the descriptions from manuscript finding aids available at The National Archives. The rest of the series mostly has only the surname of the fist named plaintiff and surname of one defendant. Some entries have the full name of the first named plaintiff. Document type, and some improved dates have been added from OBS 1/388-392. This work was completed in 2016.
In addition, the opportunity was taken to add four codes to help researchers identify causes brought by different types of litigant, as follows:
- By gender: SFP for sole female plaintiff, and JFP for joint female plaintiffs - where the bill was filed in the name of females only. [Sole here does not imply femme sole, although many female litigants were widows or spinsters]. This is not completely to be trusted, as it omits a widow acting for infant sons but includes a widow acting for infant daughters.
- By corporate body: CBP brings up monastic houses, colleges, London companies etc.
- By unincorporate body - a group acting in a joint interest: UBP will produce churchwardens, parishioners, copyholders, manorial tenants, inhabitants etc.
These codes (SFP, JFP, CBP, UBP) can of course be used with other search terms.
For the related bill books arranged alphabetically under the plaintiffs' names see: IND 1/2136 - IND 1/2151; Cause Books for the Six Clerks can be found in IND 1/4105 - IND 1/4207
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Catalogue entries for this series have been enhanced as part of a project supported by Volunteers
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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491 bundles and files
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An Index of Chancery pleadings of Pembrokeshire interest, compiled by S Van Dulken in 1992, is also available. The Bernau Index, a genealogical source formerly held by the Society of Genealogists and now available there on microfilm, contains several million personal name entries, including those found in the records of this series.
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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 series is named after Samuel Reynardson, who was one of the six clerks from 1734 to 1797.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The records in this series are indexed in Index to Chancery proceedings (Reynardson's Division) preserved in the Public Record Office, ed E A Fry (Aberdeen, 1904).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3572/
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