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Series
Chancery: Master Humphry's Exhibits
Catalogue reference: C 109
What's it about?
C 109
The documents in this series consist of private papers of all kinds, delivered into the court of Chancery by plaintiffs and defendants as evidence in their suits. Most of the papers were delivered back to their owners, but those that remain form...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 109
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Master Humphry's Exhibits
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Date (When the record was created)
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1180-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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The documents in this series consist of private papers of all kinds, delivered into the court of Chancery by plaintiffs and defendants as evidence in their suits.
Most of the papers were delivered back to their owners, but those that remain form a major source for social, economic and business history. Some of the collections contain intimate correspondence, and family papers, including diaries and wills; others include estate papers and accounts covering several centuries.
Business, professional and trade papers are very well represented. There are important holdings relating to the army, individual artists, the book and newspaper trades, the building trades, charities, chemists, churchwardens accounts, the cloth trades, coachmakers, collieries and the coal trade, the diamond, gold and silver trades, hospitals, mining, naval officers and seamen, prize agents, privateers, schools, shipping, the slave trade, street lighting, undertakers, waterworks, and the wine trade.
There is also a considerable amount of material relating to the East India Company, India, the West Indies and North America, and foreign trade.
In addition, this series contains three extensive collections of deeds relating to the lands of religious houses (both before and after the Dissolution): of Reading Abbey, Berkshire; Repton Priory, Derbyshire; and Sudbury College, Suffolk.
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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442 bundle(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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These documents can only be seen under supervision
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The documents were handed on by each master to his successor, until reclaimed. The exhibits in this series ended up in the care of Master Humphry, the last Fifth Master, 1850-1860.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An index to the Chancery Masters over time is filed with the paper list.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3668/
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