Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Chancery: Statute Rolls
Catalogue reference: C 74
What's it about?
C 74
An enrolled collection of statutes, considered by its compilers to be noteworthy, from 1277 to 1469.The rolls record acts of Parliament in their final form, as assented to, and nothing other than these end products of the parliamentary...
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C 74
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Statute Rolls
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Date (When the record was created)
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1277-1469
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Description (What the record is about)
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An enrolled collection of statutes, considered by its compilers to be noteworthy, from 1277 to 1469.
The rolls record acts of Parliament in their final form, as assented to, and nothing other than these end products of the parliamentary process.
The statute rolls were discontinued as acts of Parliament in their final form began to be enrolled on the Parliament rolls: C 65
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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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French and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 roll(s)
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- Democracy
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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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The records in this series were formerly housed in the Tower of London.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The rolls are printed and translated in the first two volumes of Statutes of the Realm (9 vols, Record Commission, 1810-1828), which has a two volume index.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3634/
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