Series
Court of Chancery: Examiners' Office: [Pleadings]: Town Depositions
Catalogue reference: C 24
What's it about?
C 24
All surviving depositions in cases on the equity side of Chancery taken by examiners of the court in and around London.The series also includes unpublished depositions, 1755-1853, and miscellaneous interrogatories, depositions, and other papers,...
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 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Chancery: Examiners' Office: [Pleadings]: Town Depositions
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Date (When the record was created)
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1534-1867
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Description (What the record is about)
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All surviving depositions in cases on the equity side of Chancery taken by examiners of the court in and around London.
The series also includes unpublished depositions, 1755-1853, and miscellaneous interrogatories, depositions, and other papers, mostly of the nineteenth century.
Depositions usually give the deponent's name, address, age and occupation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records are usually sorted by year, term and alphabetically by the surname of the first plaintiff within term.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Depositions taken outside London by commissioners in the locality where the dispute had arisen may be found in: C 21 C 22
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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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2509 bundle(s)
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Records in this series dating from before 1727 had been transferred to the Tower of London by 1810 and were moved thence to the Public Record Office in the mid-nineteenth century. Depositions from 1727 to 1853 were transferred directly from the Examiners' Office to the PRO in 1867.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Contemporary indexes, some of them incomplete, are 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 and includes the names of deponents in this series up to 1800.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3585/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: C
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal...
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Court of Chancery: Examiners' Office: [Pleadings]: Town Depositions