Series
Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
Date: 1540-2022
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the...
Series
Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Sheriffs' Rolls
Catalogue reference: C 172
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C 172
Rolls of nominees, together with the names of the men chosen to fill the shrieval office in each county of England and Wales, duly picked by the sovereign.The series also contains a few separate lists of candidates for appointment and lists of...
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- C 172
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Sheriffs' Rolls
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1700-1842
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Description (What the record is about)
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Rolls of nominees, together with the names of the men chosen to fill the shrieval office in each county of England and Wales, duly picked by the sovereign.
The series also contains a few separate lists of candidates for appointment and lists of sheriffs chosen. Some miscellaneous notes and memoranda are included as well.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier sheriffs' rolls are in C 227
Lists of sheriffs may be found in PC 13
Later sheriffs' rolls are in PC 3
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 227 roll(s)
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- Litigation
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One of the duties of the six clerks was to make patents for the appointment of sheriffs, until this was declared unnecessary by the Fines Act of 1833. Thereafter the newly appointed sheriff was to receive a warrant from the clerk of the privy seal. Even so, sheriffs' rolls continued to be collected in the Six Clerks Office until its abolition in 1842.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3714/
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