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Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Whittington
Catalogue reference: C 10
What's it about?
C 10
The records in this series consist of pleadings in equity suits 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'...
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C 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Whittington
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1640-1721
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series consist of pleadings in equity suits 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' replication to the answer, are also filed in many cases.
Matters in dispute include inheritance, lands, trusts, mortgages, debts and marriage settlements.
The series is searchable by names of first named plaintiff an one or more defendant, place and subject, thanks to the work of the Friends of The National Archives and other volunteers in inputting the descriptions from manuscript finding aids available at The National Archives.
Document type, the names of extra defendants (in the format [unknown] Bloggs), and some improved dates have been added from OBS 1/378-381. This work was completed in 2018.
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, also the earlier cataloguing work did not always note when a female was an infant or wife of a defendant and represented by a male next friend.
- By corporate body: CBP brings up 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, including the Friends of The National Archives; completed in March 2018.
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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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547 bundles and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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 Isaac Whittington, who was one of the six clerks from 1735 to 1773.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3573/
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