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Series
Chancery: Master Humphry's Documents
Catalogue reference: C 123
What's it about?
C 123
This series contains affidavits, examinations of witnesses, accounts and other documents on which the Chancery masters founded their reports, together with the drafts of the reports. This series currently has no list. A manuscript index, by...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 123
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Master Humphry's Documents
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1600-c1900
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains affidavits, examinations of witnesses, accounts and other documents on which the Chancery masters founded their reports, together with the drafts of the reports.
This series currently has no list. A manuscript index, by plaintiff, is available at the The National Archives in IND 1/6618
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For maps extracted from pieces C 123/B60/10 and C 123/I & J1 see
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Latin
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Unsorted
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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
- Archives and libraries
- Litigation
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were handed on by each master to his successor. The documents in this series ended up in the care of Master Humphry, the last Fifth Master, 1850-1860.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3682/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,513,583 records
Within the department: C
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Chancery: Master Humphry's Documents
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