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Series
Chancery: Registers of Affidavits
Catalogue reference: C 41
What's it about?
C 41
Registers containing entries, in full, of affidavits sworn in the court of Chancery, including some for which the originals are now missing.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 41
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Registers of Affidavits
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1615-1747
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers containing entries, in full, of affidavits sworn in the court of Chancery, including some for which the originals are now missing.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The surviving original affidavits are in C 31
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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)
- 53 volume(s)
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- Topics
- Litigation
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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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On 26 December 1616 Richard Frampton, gentleman, was created register of affidavits by letters patent. Those letters specified that all affidavits should be registered and entered before any other instrument dependent on them, such as an order, decree or report, could be drawn. By 1617 the court was already making an order forbidding clerks and attorneys to evade this requirement.
These volumes are not known to have been kept after 1747, although no reason for their cessation is known. The last of many references to the registers in the printed orders of the court was in 1743, when its fees were regulated.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3602/
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