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Series
Chancery: Unknown Masters' Exhibits
Catalogue reference: C 114
What's it about?
C 114
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 114
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Unknown Masters' Exhibits
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Date (When the record was created)
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1566-1841
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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 the business records of the merchant, Charles Marescoe, which relate to trade between Sweden, England, Europe and the Levant.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The main series of Million Bank documents is C 46
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Interrogatories and depositions formerly in this series are now in
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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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Dutch, English, French and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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208 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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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The documents were handed on by each master to his successor, until reclaimed. The exhibits in this series have become detached from any record of the master concerned.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- An important part of this series has been analysed (and 500 of the 10,500 letters printed) in Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe-David Letters, 1668-1680, ed H Roseveare (Oxford, 1987).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3673/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: C
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