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Chancery Masters' Account Books
Catalogue reference: C 101
What's it about?
C 101
This series contains Chancery Masters' Account Books. When an estate was in dispute in Chancery, the Chancery Master would appoint people to administer any property and submit an annual account to the court. Many of these cases involve children...
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C 101
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery Masters' Account Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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c 1700-c 1850
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Chancery Masters' Account Books. When an estate was in dispute in Chancery, the Chancery Master would appoint people to administer any property and submit an annual account to the court. Many of these cases involve children under the age of 21 or lunatics deemed incabable of managing their own affairs.
Using volunteers The National Archives have catalogued these records and the descriptions now give full names of the parties (where given), the places and counties, the name of the receiver and the Chancery Master as well as the dates covered by the accounts. These can be useful in indicating subject matter for causes where our current descriptions for pleadings just have names, sometimes only short titles. These accounts can and give significant details concerning the management of both rural and urban property.
There are just under 300 entries that refer to the managemnt of estates in the West Indies.
The Chancery Masters also dealt with early cases under the Joint Stock Companies Winding Up Acts 1848 and 1849 and these records give useful information on mid 19th century company development, often listing all the names and addresses of their shareholders.
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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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6755 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3660/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,513,580 records
Within the department: C
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal...
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Chancery Masters' Account Books
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