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Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C
Catalogue reference: C 146
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C 146
This series is chiefly made up of conveyancing deeds and other evidences of title, although it includes too a considerable number of wills, bonds and receipts.The series represents the greater part of around 13,000 private deeds which accumulated...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 146
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C
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Date (When the record was created)
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c 1100-1695
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series is chiefly made up of conveyancing deeds and other evidences of title, although it includes too a considerable number of wills, bonds and receipts.
The series represents the greater part of around 13,000 private deeds which accumulated in Chancery. These were probably brought to Chancery for enrolment on the dorse of the close rolls (C 54) or lodged with the Court of Chancery as evidence in legal proceedings. Other deeds concern the endowments of charitable foundations under the jurisdiction of the chancellor.
More than 11,000 of the deeds deposited in Chancery now make up this series. The remainder have been divided among the three succeeding series, C 147, C 148 and C 149, according to size, the condition of the seals, and date.
Families whose deeds can be found in some quantity in this series include the Egertons, later dukes of Bridgwater, and the Strelleys of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
Dunstable (Bedfordshire) and Solihull (Warwickshire) are among the better-documented localities. Deeds of religious houses are not numerous, but the estate archive of the hospital of Holy Trinity alias St David's, Kingsthorpe (Northamptonshire) is relatively well-represented.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
In its present state the series exhibits little discernible trace of any kind of order, and knowledge of its purpose and arrangement seems to have been lost long before cataloguing of the deeds was begun.
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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, French and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11087 parchment membranes
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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
- Conveyancing
- Litigation
- Religions
- Legal
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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 records in this series were formerly housed in the Tower of London and the Rolls Chapel.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- C 146/8061-11027 have been listed in typescript, for which there is also an index.
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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 accumulation of these deeds among the records of Chancery is imperfectly understood. Why such deeds were not returned to their owners or handed over to successful litigants remains to be explained. Some processes, for example those which failed to establish that there was any lawful heir to an estate, no doubt left the Crown in possession of both property and evidences; default of payment for enrolment may be another possibility. An adequate explanation for the presence of 13,000 deeds is still lacking.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Pieces 1-8060 have been calendared and indexed in A descriptive catalogue of ancient deeds in the Public Record Office, I - III and VI (1890-1915). A separate list of wills and related material found in the series is provided by J R Crompton, A list of wills, administrations, etc in the Public Record Office, London, England (Baltimore, 1968).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3704/
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