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Chancery and Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Parliamentary and Council Proceedings
Catalogue reference: C 49
What's it about?
C 49
The documents in this series are a major source for the records of the medieval council, the council in Parliament, and of Parliament itself.They include conciliar agenda; memoranda of, and memorials presented to, the council; petitions in both...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 49
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Parliamentary and Council Proceedings
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1216-1650
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Description (What the record is about)
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The documents in this series are a major source for the records of the medieval council, the council in Parliament, and of Parliament itself.
They include conciliar agenda; memoranda of, and memorials presented to, the council; petitions in both original and copy, with answers and further proceedings on the same, including enrolments in the nature of Parliament rolls; lists of petitions; enrolments, drafts and copies of statutes; returns and lists of MPs; appointments of clerical proxies; and parliamentary bills and acts.
From the fifteenth century the records are primarily those of Parliament, but continue to include petitions to do justice presented to the council in Parliament, as well as original, draft and copy bills, acts and ordinances. There are also a few writs and returns, including summonses before the council, and returns on writs of certiorari, which are strays from the administrative and judicial writ files of Chancery.
Individual documents within the series relate not only to England and Wales but also to Ireland and the Channel Islands, to Scotland, to English possessions in France, including petitions from Gascony, and to the conduct of war and diplomacy.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The Parliament rolls are in C 65
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 98 files and rolls
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Transcripts of some of the records in this series are included in Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamentaria (7 vols, 1769-1817), of which a new edition on CD-ROM is being prepared; Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, ed H G Richardson and G O Sayles (Camden Society, third series, li, 1935).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3610/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,513,583 records
Within the department: C
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal...
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Chancery and Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Parliamentary and Council Proceedings
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