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Series
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings: Country Depositions, Series I
Catalogue reference: C 21
What's it about?
C 21
Depositions in cases on the equity side of Chancery taken by commissioners in the locality where the dispute had arisen.The series also includes interrogatories, copies of commissions, abstracts of plaintiffs' bills of complaint, and surveys in...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings: Country Depositions, Series I
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1538-1670
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Description (What the record is about)
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Depositions in cases on the equity side of Chancery taken by commissioners in the locality where the dispute had arisen.
The series also includes interrogatories, copies of commissions, abstracts of plaintiffs' bills of complaint, and surveys in cases involving the partition of property.
Depositions usually give the deponent's name, address, age and occupation.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Depositions taken within the London area are in C 24
Other interrogatories may be found in C 25
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 767 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A two volume manuscript index is available, arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the principle plaintiff. 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, together with their place of residence.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3582/
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