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Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
The oldest complete document at The National Archives, this charter recording a grant of land dates back over 1,000 years.
Series
Chancery: Copies of Private Acts of Parliament and Legal Records Brought into Chancery...
Catalogue reference: C 89
What's it about?
C 89
Mainly private acts of Parliament, enacted between the reigns of Henry VIII and George III, which were brought into Chancery upon writs of certiorari.The remainder of the series contains a miscellany of records certified into Chancery, including...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 89
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Copies of Private Acts of Parliament and Legal Records Brought into Chancery on Certiorari (Rolls Chapel Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1511-1822
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Description (What the record is about)
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Mainly private acts of Parliament, enacted between the reigns of Henry VIII and George III, which were brought into Chancery upon writs of certiorari.
The remainder of the series contains a miscellany of records certified into Chancery, including depositions, orders of Star Chamber, bills exhibited before the lord mayor of London, and fines; proceedings in Bankruptcy, Star Chamber, and the High Court of Delegates; and extracts from Domesday Book.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other acts of Parliament transmitted to Chancery by writ of certiorari are in C 204
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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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21 bundles 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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- Topics
- Litigation
- Taxation
- Debt
- Landed estates
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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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These copies were made by the keepers of the statutes or legal records in response to writs of certiorari sent from Chancery requesting a copy of a specific statute or record. It is not as yet clear at whose specific behest these copies were ordered.
The acts included are nearly all private acts; public acts were printed in the sessional statute, the approved list of parliamentary acts printed at the end of each session, and as the printed copy was produceable in a court of law as a legal record, recourse was not needed to a writ of certiorari to provide a copy acceptable to the court.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The originals of many of the copies of the acts in this series appear in print in Statutes of the Realm (9 vols, Record Commission, 1810-1828); Public General Acts and Measures. The Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes, first issued in 1885; and Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed C H Firth and R S Rait (3 vols, HMSO, 1911). Many of the private acts appear, however, as titles only, and the titles in print do not exactly coincide with those listed for this series.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3648/
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