Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
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Series
Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Miscellaneous Fiats
Catalogue reference: C 192
What's it about?
C 192
A collection of fiats, authorizations from the lord chancellor, to the clerk of the Crown in Chancery to supply instruments for a variety of purposes.Most, in three of the five bundles, are intended to empower judicial sessions and magistrates....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 192
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Miscellaneous Fiats
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1629-1894
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Description (What the record is about)
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A collection of fiats, authorizations from the lord chancellor, to the clerk of the Crown in Chancery to supply instruments for a variety of purposes.
Most, in three of the five bundles, are intended to empower judicial sessions and magistrates. One relates entirely to the county palatinate of Durham from 1690 to 1873, the second to City of London sessions at the Guildhall in the early 1890s, and the third to special commissions of oyer and terminer (hear and determine), to operate chiefly in London and Middlesex in cases of murder or slaving offences outside the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century.
The other two bundles include fiats for commissions for charitable abuses, 1684-1803, and letters from the Home Office to the lord chancellor requesting him to implement the royal wish to appoint new custodes rotulorum for counties in England or Wales, 1837-1893.
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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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5 bundle(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1909 Lord Chancellor's Office, Clerk of the Crown
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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
- Crime
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3727/
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