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[Sir Robert Heath, as master of the Court of Wards and Liveries]. Agreements, fines...
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/26/91
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- PRO 30/26/91
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1642-1646
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Description (What the record is about)
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[Sir Robert Heath, as master of the Court of Wards and Liveries]. Agreements, fines and rents upon wardship. Rough lists and accounts. File of 4 documents (16 ff.)
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Presented by james Harvey Bloom, esq., acting on behalf of Richard Grenville, 19th Lord Willoughby de Broke, about October 1921. Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas and subsequently of that of King's Bench, whose grand-daughter, Margaret, marries George, 12th Lord Willoughby de Broke, in 1683, was appointed master of the Court of Wards and Liveries on 13 May 1641. The acount of his life in the Dictionary of National Biography refers to his papers as being in the possession of his descendant [|Robert John, 17th] Lord Willoughby de Broke, about 1854.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Archives and libraries
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PRO 30/26
Public Record Office: Documents Acquired by Gift, Deposit or Purchase: Miscellaneous
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